ClutchCity.net Game Thread: Rockets @ Timberwolves 2/4/2003

Thanks for your "obsevation" on my "obsevation". Yao Ming is not above criticism. He had a bad game tonight, whether he was tired or not (which I mentioned). Yao Ming is like my favorite player in the league right now, but he's not perfect and tonight he wasn’t even close to being there.

 

WELL I KNEW WE WERE GOING TO LOSE. I'm not surprised......but I'm still disappointed. How happy!

Well Francis had a great game!
Mobley had an average game.
Yao did OK.....but not good enough.
Griffin was not heard. Could not aim...
Posey did OK.....did all he could do...

Morris was NOTHING.
Moochie only took 2 or 3 shots...made them.
Cato...........was MISSING
Collier.....JUST STUNK.

REFS......just were hilarious. They weren't hilarious. But the CROWD was. They were booing after every call.

Hmm...GARNETT..

GRIFFIN STOPPED GARNETT? No...of course not.

Garnett played the whole game, eh?

He is for real.

He has an attitude though...

The Rockets and Timberwolves can start a rivalry!

We are already rivals of the Mavericks, Spurs, Jazz, Suns, Lakers, and Timberwolves!!!

That's like most of our division...

Well beat the Cavs!

I really do not like seeing the old Rockets again. I should watch a rerun of the game against Sacramento.......ahhhhhhhhh..Beautiful!

 

I forgot to say.......

THEIR COACH DID GOOD.

Specifically on Yao.

Stop Yao. And we lose.

 

Yao is particularly frustrated in the first quarter when he was double-teamed by Garnett and Nesterovic while his teammates could not make open shots.

 

Franchise-6AST Yao-3AST Posey-3AST = 75% of Rox assists and less than 50% of Wolvs assists combined.

Wolvs shot 55.1% tonight whereas Rox shot 43.1%

I thinks Wolvs prepared way more for this game than Rox did, and helped make the stars align for themselves as for shooting accuracy, and appears Rox made no such consideration. Stars aligning in a teams favor can be influenced by harder work and better strategy, I think the lack of the latter is principal cause for todays turn of fortune. At least that how I "see" it from internet playbyplay updates

 

WOW WHAT A SURPRISE!

The Rockets take their game on the road, and they regress back to their usual style. Simple stats will point to the measly 16 assist team total, but even without the stats, you could easily see the ball domination by Francis, especially in the 2nd half.

One play that pissed me off in particular had to do with Cuttino... for the first time in a few years, I saw a pure ISO. And instead of driving and perhaps kicking the ball out, Cuttino just fires a mid-range jumper... CLANK!

And it seemed that nearly after every pick and roll, Francis would take it upon himself to just drive himself... It's not that Yao didn't get a lot of shots; he was getting double teamed afterall, but it was the lack of involvement of everyone else that upset me. Also Francis got less than 7 assists and we lost... this is in keeping with a certain stat that says we are SOMETHING like 14-4 (don't remember the exact numbers) when Francis gets 7+ assists.

You'd think this team would have learned their lesson. Perhaps it will get more reinforced into their minds after this loss.

 

a couple of time i thought Yao was playing 1 on 5 on defense.

 

Mobely:
FGM-A : 7-16
3GM-A: 1-5
REB: 5
AST: 1 in 42min!

It's said he felt disappointed when he knew he lost the chance to be in the All-star team. He even think of all-star game? It's a joke!

 

Yao played fine. It's not his fault his teammates are so selfish. One of his worst games of the season??? I almost busted a gut laughing at such a stupid comment.

 

Yao is ok today. He always got double team, and third person nearby tried to cut the passing route. Rudy should take advantage of this situation

 

That's true! It's time to change, Rudy T!!!

 

Why didn't Griffin get in the low post to try his turnaround jumpers while Yao was being doubled teamed? He can make the occasional three but that's not a job of a power forward.

 

That's what SF and Mobley always think about!

 

it's hard to get rebounds when you are being cleared out to the three point line for the iso plays and dumb jack ups.

 

An average game by what standard? 8 for 21 with 1 assist and a lot of iso plays.

Cat really needs to move on. His style of play disrupts the flow of team ball.

 

Old Man Rock, I have to say you have no BBall IQ at all.

 

where was cato tonight

 

Mobley is just plain stupid. Can he not do the math? He had 6 ast's the past two games and Steve had 8, and they won... hmmmm no crap... tonight, one assist. The dude is a moron bomber and should trade himself for the good of the team. Does he even watch game film? Does he realize what he's doing?!?

 

True he got only 7 FGAs but 2 of those atempts were from his t'mates' miss shots and he still manage to get a double double. If Yao got 14 shots like Rasho did. I am sure he would've had atleast 18pts easily.