Call me a pessimist but I'm not happy. Sure we lost to the "defending champs" but they just lost to the Pacers by 16. They were beatable. Instead 2 of our big 3 had terrible games and didn't give us a chance.
exactly; terrible games that likely will not happen again (at least in yao's case). the celtics were obviously caught off guard by the pacers; everyone loses to a lower tier team once in a while. the pacers win doesn't mean a rockets win just because the rockets are a better team than indiana.
yao sucked balls. he won't be that bad again. and yeah, we actually do need battier to reach our full potential, especially defensively.
