[Chron]Long into the night at Toyota Center, the Rockets' faith is tested

depressing to the say the least.

 

You forgot to mention that you cannot win without developing some team chemistry especially when a team has had over 15+ different lineup changes. Yes things are very difficult right now, but if this lineup is still blowing leads late in games a month or two from then I probably would hit the panick button. But until then you gotta give them more time together.

 

Let me ask you a very reasonable question. How many times has Yao, T-Mac, Artest and Battier played in the same game together? If this team can stay healthy I don't really fear anybody outside of Lakers or the Spurs. This is one of the most talented teams the rockets have fielded in quit some time. They need to develop chemistry by playing with each other and it doesn't happen through osmosis.

 

Blowing 4th quarter leads and losing to crappy teams the last 4 years. Both false. Durvasa, could you do me a favor and show this fool the stats? I guarantee you the Rockets are near the top in both categories. If I had to guess, I would say they are second behind San Antonio in terms of beating sub .500 teams the last 4 years.

 

When have the Big 3 been healthy all at the same time this season? What are trying to say, should they blow up the team? When did the rockets choke last season? Also, I didn't see the rockets blow to many leads during that 22 game win streak last season.

 

the optimist in me would point to the fact that they had a 10-point lead in the 4th quarter when they had been playing some subpar basketball for most of the game. also, i counted at least seven times where we had good shots and they went in and out. combine that with the uncharacteristic breakdowns on some fast breaks and we really should've blown them out of the water.

 

you are wasting your time dude, nobody reads articles.

look at the one i posted about the ESPN pod cast. that turned into a racial incident cause someone merely explained something to the 90% of the people that were too lazy to listen.

http://bbs.clutchfans.net/showthread.php?t=161621

let me give you a hint, if its these crazy mcgrady fans, they forgo the article or even the post, all the want to do is respond to anything they feel is hurting their idol. Now they diss all of China.

 

feigen basically said the brass were extremely frustrated. and morey may re-evaluate the whole situation, though tad said he still had faith. so to me it all depends on how morey thinks and moves now.

personally, i think it is time RIGHT NOW (not wait until this summer or later) to break the core of this team as it's proven not working.

yao needs to be established early and often. i've said this thousands of times. anytime we fail to do that we lose (like last night); and on the contrary everytime we do, we usually win (we won 6 out of 7 that way when no other choices were available but yao - not long ago). it seems that mixing up a yao-centric offense with ball movement (as opposed to a pure jvg style offense) is the winning formula.

i tend to agree that adelman-yao-mcgrady don't fit together. artest is a lot minor issue. at least one of them has to go - right now. i'd prefer to see #1 gets shipped; but if for whatever reason they decide to trade yao, i'd be fine with that, too. it's at least better than the status quo for this team.

 

True of False- Did the rockets have their starting All Star center for the Utah series. True or False- was their starting PG injured during the Utah series. True or False- Do the rockets currently have a losing record. True or False- Are the rockets three and half games out of 1st place in the southwest division while playing through injuries and playing six more road games than the 1st place team SA and five more road games then NO.

 

Come on Max, that was a bit different....that was the playoffs against a good team...this team blows leads against CRAP teams.

This is a problem, and the team must address it.

To me it is an identity problem, the reason the team won with Wafer was that everyone played their role, and it worked.....now, is it Tmac, Ron, or Yao?

To me, it has to be Yao.....everyone else feed off him....

Also, trade Ron....(Got to stay consistent).

DD

 

Fixed

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Choke_City

Choke City refers to a Houston Chronicle front-page headline in 1994, where the name "Choke City" was given to the City of Houston after the Houston Rockets blew very big leads in the first two games of their second round of their match-up with the Phoenix Suns in the 1994 NBA Playoffs.

 

DD and you think TMac will change his ways and feed off Yao? Ron maybe traded but TMac will still be doing what he does and not allow the offense to run through Yao. He will want Yao to come up and set that stupid screen in order for him to get his shot off.

 

I don't know why there are so much uproars and surprises over these past two games. I did not expect anything to change when TMac & Ron come back. Sure in my heart I wanted them to change like I've written in my previous posts.

Reality, however is a b****. Do you think after the in and out of the line-up those two had since the beginning of the season, they would just come in after the two week off and start playing teamball immediately?

Everyone of us was enjoying that mini win streak we had when Ron& TMac were out. The games were enjoyable, we had a clear indentity, it was Yao and everyone was playing off of him. Ball movements were crisp, guys were being completely unselfish, they were following the examples of their leader: Yao.

Now Ron & TMac are back, Yao is being ignored on offense, Rafer's going back to his bad habits, Wafer's minutes are down to nothing, Barry becomes an invisible man to the point where I don't see him on the court anymore(literally), Scola and Landry just don't have the same tenacity like before(when Ron & Tmac were out).

I don't know about you guys but it is hard to watch this team play again. For a brief shining moment during that little mini winning streak, I was pumped about the team, I had a busy work schedule yet I made an effort to watch evey one those games.

It's time to move on without TMac & Ron!