SEASON OPENER Rockets back on court tonight with very different look By JONATHAN FEIGEN "Perhaps this wasn’t what the NBA had in mind. Sending the Rockets back to Portland, to begin the season where the postseason began six months earlier, might have offered a nice bit of symmetry, a way to renew a budding rivalry between two of the Western Conference’s emerging teams. And despite a question posed by Aaron Brooks — “Does one series make a rivary?” — it could have felt as much like a Game 7 of a playoff series as Game 1 of the Rockets’ 2009-10 schedule...." Rest of article: http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/sports/bk/bkn/6687679.html Rockets notes: Trail Blazers' size to be a test By JONATHAN FEIGEN Height advantage "With the Rockets uncertain about how things will work given their lack of size, Portland's wealth of size — with seven-footers Greg Oden and Joel Przybilla at center and LaMarcus Aldridge at forward — offers an immediate test of life without Yao Ming...." Rest of article: http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/sports/bk/bkn/6687665.html
i gotta say, i'm real surprised we didn't go for any real height (outside of anderson). i just hope it doesn't come around to bite us in the hoohaa!
I'm not sure we are rivals with Portland. They're too classy and play too cleanly to be rivals (Mavs and Jazz .. I'm looking at you).
