1. Yao is a slow monster. This really frustrated me for my ticket. 2. Mo is great although he is "boo"ed everytime he touches the ball. 3. Mooche is the best machine to kill time in NBA, while he is a very good teamplayer for rox. You can see he has very good feeling to play with Mo. 4.Odom is fatastic, if Rox can obtain him. Perfect!!! Baby. 5.Cat is really ignoring his teammate whoever is open,while he is no Kobe or Jordan. :< 6.EG is better than my expection for this game. He made serveral good shoots. 7.JP is perfect tonite. Keep on and Rox will go into Playoff. 8.Fracis is a real all star, although I don't the big "T". 9.Is my English bad?
What's up with Cat's fade-away jumpers? He thinks he is Kobe or MJ? There are two Rockets wide open under the basket. The diss from Moochie to Mo really shows how easy the game can be when you pass.
just out of curiosity, how bad was the miller foul on francis? from what people were saying in the chat room, francis was mighty pissed with the foul.
Miller pulled down Francis while he jumped in the air and tried to dunk. It could end up being a damaging injury. I think that's why Francis was pissed.
francis definetly thought he got fouled badly. was curious what "type" of foul was it? was steve in the air & got knocked hard to the ground? had his legs swept out from under him? should it have been a flagrant foul?
Stevie drove by Miller and was going up for a dunk. Miller yanked Stevie's shoulder down to prevent the dunk. I thought it should have been called a flagrant.
anyone notice Steve double-dribble first? That's why Miller yanked him down, he didn't want to give him 2 points after he did that - but still, Francis had a good reason to react as he did.
Tonight seemed like a role reversal of our players tonight. Posey scoring what Francis usually averages. Griffin scoring the average Yao's been getting as of late. I'm glad both Yao, and Francis got a rest tonight. I think Yao was tired and was the victim of a lot of turnovers tonight because of it. Francis didn't have to play much because the Rockets were on such a big roll. Lastly, Posey is an enormous threat when he can prove he can make his perimeter buckets, and he totally opens up our offense. Also Odom was poorly defended tonight. Most of his points were slashing in the paint finger rolls. Maybe it's because Yao spent a lot of time riding the pine and no one could contest his shot, but Odom drove in the lane almost at will. All in all, I'm very pleased with tonights performance. Moochie took some ill advised shots, and ran the shot clock down a little too long before setting up a play. Still, it's a very gratifying win, and I'll take it anyday when our two go-to guys don't have to waste much energy.
One more thing I saw is that Boki has great soft hands to put down the balls. Hope he can show up next year.
I'm at row 12, section 321. Last row in the center. :< But still OK for me since it's my first NBA game.
did miller touch the ball when it looked like steve double dribbled? in real time i thought steve just picked it up then dribbled some more and went to the whole and when they showed the replay i didn't pay enough attention. if steve really just picked it up and miller didn't tip it into his hands then that's very strange the refs would miss something so blatant. as for the foul, steve blew by miller, went up and miller grabbed him around his bicep on one arm and dragged him back down. it probably was flagrant in the sense he made no attempt on the ball but probably good they didn't call one. and when did cat shoot a fadeaway jumper with two people open tonight?? i know one time he passed to yao when he was open (and yao was either fouled or blocked) and he tried to pass to him on a fast break but the pass was broken up.
great game if youre a rox fan....bad if u wanted to see alot of yao and franchise.............i was lucky to sit in 114 row 8 tonight!!!
I'm totally a rox fan just because of Yao. Maybe at the first beginning I'm a Yao fan, but now I'm a pure rox fan.
my oberservation: 1) there are some super hot chicks in the game! 2) LA spirts are HOT! 3) Yao was wide open so many times and they did not pass him the ball 4) Yao seems really big and strong in person. not skinny at all 5) Did I mention about the hot looking chicks? 6) the flyers they pass outside of the staples center is wroth to check out
