All the Rockets should were bags on their heads after this game...including Rudy T! The Jazz are not playing good enough to win but the Rockets refuse to cooperate! ------------------
pulling out gun...inserting bullet into champer...pointing gun at head....I've got to have some releif! ------------------
There was no good excuse for this loss! Steve waited to late in the game to get aggresive and start demanding the ball. If he would have started that a lot earlier we would have won. And while I love to see people pass the ball I don't understand making a bad pass in the crowded paint when you are 3' in the air with a 2' point blank shot. I saw more bonehead mental mistakes in this game then I have in a long time. A team can not loose its concentration for 6 and seven minute stretches and expect to beat anyone! ------------------
Bear in mind that Francis "called in sick" yesterday with stomach flu and missed practice. It may have affected him tonight. ------------------
Dang Crash, your gonna have to quit it with replying to your own post's just in order for them to get higher. Mango'll come after ya. ------------------ Francis out top, 9 seconds on the clock, he gives a no look pass to Cuttino Mobley, 4 seconds left, Mobley passes to an open Langhi in the corner with 1 second left! Langhi at the buzzer.......YES!!! How Sweet It Is!!
Francis never demanded the ball he had to take try to wrestle it away from Moochie and Cuttino. Our offense is HORRIBLE when moochie is in there. He plays a 2 man game with one of our big men and it wasnt working at all tonight. Dont blame Steve for this loss. Blame Cuttino, Rudy for not taking out Cuttino during the game, and Rudy keeping Mooch in control of the offense way too long. I dont know about you all, but I would much rather see a quicker Steve play a 2 man game than Mooch hope his head fakes somehow shake his defender. ------------------
Steve just played way too pasive for 3 periods and made too many mistakes when the ball was in his hands. He looked like a superstar in the last 4 minutes though. ------------------
Youve got it all wrong Crash, Steve shouldnt have to demand the ball, our coach should get him involved early and often. How can you get in a rhythm if the only way you get to do something on offense is if you manage to wrestle the ball away from Cuttino or Mooch? Standing around watching these 2 play with the ball, got Steve out of his game and you can not blame him for this loss. Anybody notice when Rudy in the 2nd quarter subbed in Moochie for Steve?? What in the hell kinda coaching decision in that?? Cuttino was already on his way to his magical shooting night and rudy subs in for Steve!?!? All these factors get a player out of rythm and out of the flow of the game. How can you be passive if you never touch the ball?? ------------------ [This message has been edited by tacoma park legend (edited January 06, 2001).]
Theres a difference between bringing the ball up the court and having the offense run through you. Also in the 2nd quarter Steve NEVER brought up the ball as Mooch took over the point guard duties and in turn took Steve completely out of the offense.Id rather take my chances with Steve than Mooch ------------------
Moochie wasn't playing a 2 man game with anyone, he was playing with..er.. by himself. He never should have gotten trapped by Malone and Stockton, that ball should have been in Bullards hands. Moochie repeatedly took a double team off the pick and roll without passing to the picker who was standing wide open. He can beat just about anyone in the league off the dribble, but it's not always smart basketball. j ------------------
