ClutchCity.net Game Thread: Suns @ Rockets 3/16/2003

I like this photo.

 

what's wrong with dog food? I heard it tastes good!

By the way, pigs are smarter and cleaner than dogs, but dogs get all the love

 

Talk about hitting the Wall (of China)!

 

What is your point? You are still bashing Yao after he had a game high score?

Of cause, he is not the one. I believe Shaq is.

 

LOL. It's great to see Steph's smug ass ramming into Yao's cast-iron stomach.

 

Caption Game:

Yao - "A little lower Steph."

 

How about the big play of Kelvin Cato down the stretch ?!?! he hit some key jumpers and had some key rebounds with his tough physical play. The best game by Cato in quite some time.

 

Yao has shown again he's clutch in the fourth quarter.

From what I read from AP, ESPN, NBA.com, he's involve in all the plays that in the final 4 and half minute that put Rox back up to ten. A great 3 point play dunk, a 20 ft jumper, an assit to MoT's hook shot, a emphatic spin dunk against Marion. When at times the Rox seem lost and have nothing working for them. Yao took over again.

There's no doubt he will emerge as the leader of this team really soon.

 

Suns TV analyst Eddie Johnson said, "[The Suns] are tired of dealing with that interior right now. I mean nothing is easy down there. One of the most underrated stats is blocked shots because Yao Ming doesn't have but a couple, but he has changed about 20."

A few seconds later, Johnson continutes: "Sometimes players are stubborn. And they buy into wanting to challenge a guy (Yao), and it's playing right into the Rockets hands. Yao Ming is just standing there just swatting or changing shots."

Talking about intimidation

 

Yao Ming on Amare Stoudemire’s performance:
"I don’t think he played like his normal self, I think he can play better. Our defense today focused on a lot of their key players and it limited what they could do."

 

Come on. Have you watched the game?

Even in the third quarter, among Yao's misses, one clearly non-call goaltending by AS was not called and counted as a blockshot. Check that on Clutch, Chron and other websites. Four hookshots was as a result of Yao's practising a new shot with the quiet man the day before. Really, there was only one real missed shot, the only blockshot by AS.

Even if you include those missed shot, he was still the highest scorer and percentage shooter.

On the other hand, AS shot only 3 over 10 FG the whole night mainly because of Yao's block shot or intimadation. Throughout the whole game, there was not even a point of time that AS has outplayed Yao for the overall performance to that point.

What RocketForever quoted off the Sun's analyst is another proof that was the case.

I have never negatively responded to another poster here; but when you posted something like this against a Rocket player when he was obviously the best player on the court, it could only expose your bias against Yao or being a Phoenix fan. Yet nothing wrong with that if you admitted that rather than accusing others.

Honestly speaking, even if you are biased against Yao, had you picked another night when Yao was playing badly, then, I would have agreed with you.

 

some Rox fans too........

 

not to try and run the Stoudamire and/or anti-Chinese-guy-on-Rox-team bandwagonoff the road, but here's the bigger picture:

Francis: 5 ast 1rb
Mobley: 4 ast 9pts
Yao: 11 points 1rb 2ast
Amare: 2 points, 3rb 0ast

some bandwagon drivers just have a knack for solo spinouts!