I told you, I told you, I told you (aka Gm 5 strategy)

wow, his leaping vertical must be around 40 inches.

 

Without T-Mac, Rocket passes Round 1!

Without Yao Ming, Rocket passes Round 2!!

Without Adelman, Rocket gets champion!!!

 

agree with u
1. control turnover
2. no 1 vs. 1
3. keep defense

 

AB!!!

 

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i think this series comes down to how well the teams shoot. it's obvious.
no turnovers though, k?

 

NOW. lakers is not cool , and haven't great offensive , let alone their defensive.
They just are arrogant guys. laker is not a championship team now. ...At least before today.

but next game ..... kobe will return to the best.
The game will be very difficult for us !
just go on

 

This is a very key point. With Yao out of the lineup, there's always the question of where our offense is going to come from. The Rockets are a streaky shooting team, and I don't expect Aaron to light it up in Game 5 like he did yesterday.

That means Artest cannot have another 4-19 dismal shooting day. Scola needs to finish around the basket, and Landry needs to hit his free throws.

 

I think the lakers are going to play farmar and brown more. Those guys scare me cause they cut our lead down fast but we were able to regroup and get it back up but we are known to go through our stretches of not getting a bucket and we can have that if we are going to go win in LA. Lets go Rockets!!

 

If you look at the stat line, it is simple to see why we won game four:

We forced them to turn the ball over, and we didn't turn the ball over.


I think the limit of our turnovers had a little to do with not trying to force feed yao.

This series just got interesting, we have all the toughness (mental toughness as well) and the lakers have the talent. As long as we play with heart, we can win the series.


This series is a true barometer of what is more important in this league, heart or talent.


This rockets team reminds me a little of the pistons from a few years back...no big time superstars, just a few undersized guys who looks the other team in the eye and tells them you will not play harder than us 5.




There is one another occurence I have seen our team play like this, 22 game streak. It's back, it's playoffs, and no better time to be a rockets fan.

 

Look for Pau to face up on Hayes. Hayes should face guard if in mid-range area while still being mindful of swiping at the ball when Pau puts it on the deck. I like Cook's outside threat ability...he should be put in when Powell plays. Plus, he should be at ease hoisting shots up in the Staples Center. Why not give Barry some light on D-Fish? Suprisingly, it was the Lakers who shot a better percentage last game. If we stand a shot, we need our marksmen in the game. Adelman needs to be real creative with his substitution patterns not only to matchup but to keep at least 3 shooters in at all times.

 

Good points but all the talks are about Scola, Battier and Landry stepping up. What about our Ron?? I hope he don't drive, drive, drive like Kobe and chucking 5-20.

 

Wasn't Landry the one that kept us in Game 2 with 21 points?

 

I know what you mean, I kept wondering why Wafer didn't even play in the 2nd half (worried that he and Adelman might have had another tiff) and Landry didn't play much either in the 2nd half. I guess the coach felt that the chemistry of what was out there was too good to mess with.

 

Tuesday what matters most is Rockets vs. Kobe, not Rockets vs. Lakers.

And pace. Everyone has said that we do better slower. Yesterday we disproved this, we can do well when the pace is up, as long as we choose the pace.

 

I thought the Laker's would switch Fisher onto Shane and let Ariza try to check AB, however, this leaves a significant gap with Kobe trying to check Arest in the post. Kobe doesn't like playing post D, too physical and takes too much out of his offensive game.

Shane is able to stay in front of Kobe and Chuck does an excellent job of getting up on Kobe and forcing him to take jumpers. I'm not worried about Shane racking up fouls. Too smart and the officials have mad respect for him. I would feel different with Arest.

The goal is too make Kobe focus on Shane and Wafer. They lit him up for about 30 points combined.

I love when Kobe takes over and starts forcing shots. You can't keep hitting jumpers at a 50% rate, the law of averages takes over and you start shooting 45% on 2's. This also leaves the other Faker's out of the game.

Our second unit murders them except when Lowry loses sight of Vujachick.

 

They are going to go big with Bynum and Gasol.
That is when we are going to miss Yao.

 

I told you, I told you, I told you
______

STFU, please.

 

Let them go big will not help them with the fast lineup the Rockets will be playing with. Jackson will be forced to keep pace. Rockets by 6.

 

Nice work KC. Lets get the next game right also and we will have a great chance to close the series out in H-Town on Thursday.