ClutchCity.net Game Thread: Knicks @ Rockets 12/27/2002

Losing to Memphis was bad
Losing to the Clips was even worse
But Losing to the Knicks is the absolute worst.



madSAGE

 

No kidding! Did we just have the one lead the whole game like when it was 15-8 and then the Knicks went on a run? And we shot a horrible 28% from the field..if we didn't knock majority of our freebies..imagine what the score would have been..and this is on like 3-4 days of rest..what did the rockets eat or drink for xmas? makes you wonder

 

.......no Memphis was the worst. Heh. This was just sad. I had a feeling that the Rockets would come back easily and win. But they just STUNK. The Utah Jazz was the worst one...

 

I'd like to see Brian Grant in pinstripes

 

This game was so bad we were out of timeouts with more than 5 minutes to go in the game. Our final shooting %:

.295

3 point shooting: .267

Boki at 1 for 1 is the only player to shoot 50% or higher.

Yao and Cato combined for 5 for 15.

On the bright side, only 9 TOs.

 

Whoever said Yao needed rest? Look what rest had got him!

 

What is fundamentally wrong with this game?
Why is nobody can make shot tonight?

 

I was about to attend this game from out of town..good thing I didn't go to this one..I thought it was going to be an easy win since we have the inside presence..

 

Not only that..but we turned the ball over by making sloppy passes all night

I'm fuming right now

 

Pls give YAO more time and let him learn something for his second stage. We are all the real fun, right?

 

Definitely Rudy is responsible for the loss of this game, look at the
poor field goals, if I was the coach, I would let all of them
practise shooting 12 hours each day.

 

Choke city. [big]Choke[/big].

 

Bad bad coaching.
The way the players were rotated, the timing to call time out.
And absolutely no solution can be found for the entire game.

Don't blame players, we were out coached by a very bad team.

 

I was watching the Rockets on the MSG network tonight and one of the announcers said that Yao looked confused out there..guess he drank too much Yanjing Beer over the holidays..L trying to cheer up over here

 

I know. They should all practice shooting. We had so many open looks. We just didn't make them. If we did, we should have won. But we didn't. We lost to one of the crappiest and highest paid teams in the world. That makes us worse! We are too inconsistent.

Positives:

James Posey is getting his minutes...maybe only because Glen Rice was 0-3 and was never passed the ball.
Mo Taylor had 12 points...maybe because Eddie Griffin was 2-10 and just missed everything.
Bostjan Nachbar actually played and made a 3 just like that. I like!
We only had 13 turnovers. Pretty good but missed too many field goals. Terrible!

 

He also pointed out that Rox should have gone inside
all the game facing the shortest team,Knicks, in the game,
instead of shooting poor out side Js.

 

True there were some positives..but we didn't rotate and distribute the ball well at all..Francis had 3 assists..There is alot of soul searching that needs to be done after this loss

 

We said gave Yao 2 weeks off. Now Rudy gave the whole team 2 days off. Blame RudyT for the bad field goal %! If you have no outside weapons, the opponents will concentrade their defense inside with no fear.

Anyway, this team has no real shootters, now bring on WZZ...

 

Its our 3rd in a row,its sooooo frustating!!!! How did Yao get 17 points so fast???

 

Maybe it is the time to give Boki some play time. His feed to Yao and the 3 point looks great!