Yeah brah. JVG knows what he's doing. He's not showing Avery his hand. Wait until the playoffs, Avery and the Mavs are not going to know what hit 'em. Avery to Del: "what play was that. what are they running. we never saw this on game tape. goddammit Del"
Regular and Post Season is entirely different ball game. I actually liked what I saw last night. Rockets have more X-factors than Mavs at this point, and you know what, if we can hang around with the Mavs as it is, I am sure by the play-off time we might just give them good shock. Of course, that Home-Court Advantage Mavs might just be the decisive element as it were two years ago. But as things stand, I am confident of our chances against them in a best of 7 Series. Its too early to judge Avery vs Jeff, when the real around hasn't even began yet.
I'm sorry but that is just ridiculous. Dallas simply has a better bench than we do. When you have Jerry Stackhouse, Devean George, Austin Croshere, Diop and Devin Harris coming off the bench, you have an advantage. But I guess if Hayes, Novak, VSpan, Lucas and Luther could be better than those guys if they played more. Ridiculous I fault JVG for burning the timeouts, but the fact is that Dallas has a more TALENTED bench than we do and more versatile players. It has jack sh*t to do with the lack of development. Hell, their THIRD STRING point guard (AJ) is better than our backup and may be as good as our starter.
I too can't wait for the MAvs is the playoffs.....Bring them on!!! and we will chase their a$$ out of the TC
And for the Rockets to take that next step up they had to fire Cheney and let Rudy take over. HMMMMMM???? DD
Small beef with original post: I think it was T-Mac's fault on the go-ahead shot that Terry hit going right. McGrady showed on the P&R but did so very pathetically and allowed Terry to get right past him without even breaking stride. Alston was caught up in the screen, the scheme calls for the screener's man to show and stop penetration, McGrady didn't do the job.
I can't believe people are complaining after the Rockets lost by 3 measly points to the best team in the league, especially when the following is true: - They were without Yao - Rafer can't shoot - TMac can't hit his free throws Any one of those wins the game.
Sure, big picture wise yes, Jeff has done good this year. But lets talk about this game only. 4th quarter: Bonzi was trash, Snyder could've D'd up Stackhouse and given us more energy. There werer at least 3 rebounds that Bonzi did not even try to get to get to when in vacinity of them. Snyder could've been x factor....... Alston: trash all night except 1st quarter. Put TMAC at point, Head at the 2. Go from there. Time Out situation: Completely fuked it up!!! eventually costing us the game...... Yea, JVG been great overall, but Matt J, its ok to criticize when its very very well deserved. I think last night was quite well deserved. He stunk at coaching and deserves criticism for this game.
Yes I keep seeing flash backs of the Mavs 12-0 run with T-mac on the bench and both Head and Alston in the game. What was JVG thinking and with Dirk abusing Hayes and the Rockets unable to get a rebound Deke was watching on the bench. JVG done a good job in the absence of Ming but yes he Fuked it up last night real good and deserves criticism.
It was one of those nights Mavs played Rox basketball and guess what? They still went back home with a W. That says something. They can beat you in so many ways. And some of the fans should just stop baby-crying about the FT misses. Dallas Mavs is an excellent FT team and they missed a ton as well at last night's game. It happens.
Very true. I had no problem with anyone's FT. I didn't like Alston's shot selection but his defense on Terry was good, a fact that most people neglect. Mavs were forced to play our ball last night, but they took a win away by better execution at the end. Their defense were solid, denying Tmac the ball. I am not willing to say JVG got owned by AJ just yet but clearly AJ showed why he was coach of the year. I think JVG did a great job so far but wish we had AJ as a coach, like his stategy on both ends, unlike JVG who is only a defensive master.
yeah, the alston-head combo should never be on the court at the same time without either yao or tmac. it should have been bonzi or snyder out there, someone that can either get to the basket or post-up for a quality shot. head and alston should NEVER be on the court at the same time unless someone is there to create shots for them.
jvg has CONSISTENTLY done that. maybe his philosophy, if it ain't broke, don't fix it. I hope last night convinced him real good that head and alston when tmac is out is NOT the way to go
AJ's double-team on TMac the last couple minutes lastnight really threw our offense out of whack. It seemed like we had never seen a double-team before. Also, I questioned JVG's timeout w/ a minute left lastnight, but not executing a play out of timeout when the game is on the line is unexcusable. But whatever it is, you won't win games against elite teams when you miss 1/2 your FTs in the 4th quarter.
100% right. When Avery came in with Stackhouse during the 2nd half, JVG then counters with his midget 2 guard in Luther. The only time I saw JVG force Avery into altering his lineup was when Bonzi started take the ball to the hole in the latter part of the 2nd half, then Avery was forced to come out of his small lineup and insert Dampier. I agree with you about JVG being very stubborn with his rotations.
I'm as angry about yesterday's loss as anybody, but I think JVG deserves a lot of credit for the amazing defensive job the Rox did yesterday. The only truly bad defensive stretch was when Dallas went on the 12-0 run at the end of the 3rd. Other than that the D was great. JVG was getting Nowitzki to miss using Juwan Howard on him! That, I think, says a lot about what JVG's scheme can do. It would be nice to see a little more flexibility on offense, but Kirk Snyder is not Jerry Stackhouse. More practically speaking, I think using Snyder as a slasher would have worked better than Bonzi yesterday, considering how good Snyder is as a finisher. That would have been a good answer to the double on Tmac at the end of the game. The lack of a timeout at the end really killed us. That wasn't JVG's fault, though. Rafer called an emergency timeout with about 3 minutes to go when it looked like our team was confused about which play they were running. If he hadn't had to burn that one, we would have been able to get a much better shot in at least one of the last 2 possessions.
I forgot about not having any timeouts with 4.2 seconds to play, which would have been nice for a 3 pointer try by T Mac. Does Jeff not know by now that Avery is going to double team Tmac and force others to win the game. Without Yao we don't have anyone else to win the game. Snyder would be nice in the middle with Luther and Battier on the wings with Yao down low. Snyder has the leaping ability, to dunk on any foward or center especially Dirk and Dampier. Plus Snyder finishes perfectly at the rim. Bonzi, Juwan, and Deke are very slow reacting to the ball and leaping ability is suspect. Dirk has trouble scoring against Tmac, Shane, and Juwan. I'll give Jeff the benefit of the boubt w/o Yao. However, we please Dallas in the 2nd round he better come with something new for Dallas.
