ClutchFans Game Thread: Bobcats @ Rockets 1/25/2006

cmellon · Jan 26, 2006

MONON said:

Bout time someone on this team excelled against lower competition!!
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LOL This is so funny

qrui · Jan 26, 2006

dandorotik said:

Did anyone see ESPN's recap? Funny stuff:

HOUSTON (AP) -- For a change, the Houston Rockets were all smiles after a home game.

....

--The team lounge was locked.

--Instead of a hot meal, a table in the locker room was stacked with cold subs.

--The six current injured players were not allowed to sit on the bench.

At least for one night, the ploy worked.

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lol. is that for real? link please.

whatever works i'll take it. maybe they could invite the other team's dancers over as well

Xerobull · Jan 26, 2006

Fantastic game. We look so much different. I can feel the confidence coming on. Playoffs, here we come!

Williamson · Jan 26, 2006

I had a great time at the game last night. It was disappointing when McGrady went out of the game because I was starting to think he was going to go for 40 on three straight nights. Lonnie Baxter was a beast! Chuck Hayes was great. It was a lot of fun.

reggietodd · Jan 26, 2006

jmwilliamson said:

I had a great time at the game last night. It was disappointing when McGrady went out of the game because I was starting to think he was going to go for 40 on three straight nights. Lonnie Baxter was a beast! Chuck Hayes was great. It was a lot of fun.
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Did you see Moochie almost make a bucket for the opposing team?

rrj_gamz · Jan 26, 2006

Me thinks we can continue our winning ways...

tigermission1 · Jan 26, 2006

dandorotik said:

Did anyone see ESPN's recap? Funny stuff:

HOUSTON (AP) -- For a change, the Houston Rockets were all smiles after a home game.

That wasn't the only difference following the Rockets' easy 102-78 win over the Charlotte Bobcats on Wednesday night.

Houston coach Jeff Van Gundy, searching for reasons why the Rockets had lost 10 of 13 home games, shook up the team's pre-game routine to simulate the road, where they're 11-13.

"We're eliminating the nonsense," Van Gundy said. "I'm fed up. I'm sick of losing at home and playing terrible basketball. Nonsense is always a distraction."

The players noticed the changes as soon as they arrived before the game:

--The team lounge was locked.

--Instead of a hot meal, a table in the locker room was stacked with cold subs.

--The six current injured players were not allowed to sit on the bench.

At least for one night, the ploy worked.

Tracy McGrady scored 29 points in three quarters as the Rockets snapped a seven-game home losing streak with perhaps their best performance at the Toyota Center all season.

"He's just trying to change up the atmosphere around here and make it feel like we're on the road," McGrady said of Van Gundy. "He's the general and we've just got to follow his rules."

Seldom-used Lonnie Baxter added a season-high 18 points and 11 rebounds and David Wesley added 15 for Houston, which snapped a seven-game losing streak. The Rockets hadn't won a home game since a 91-73 victory over Boston on Dec. 6.

Wesley felt like the pre-game alterations helped.

"Coach did a full change in here," Wesley said. "There were a lot of changes and it looked like they worked."

Matt Carroll had 19 for injury-depleted Charlotte, which dropped its season-high ninth straight game.

The Rockets, meanwhile, rode one of their best home-court offensive performances of the season to their third win in four games. The NBA's second-lowest scoring team shot 46 percent (39 of 84) and had 26 assists, a season-high for a home game.

Van Gundy is prepared to keep the new routine -- whether the players like it or not.

"I don't like our home environment," he said. "I don't like it at all. I'm going to do what I can to make the environment what I think it should be to be able to play our very best. If that ruffles feathers, I don't care."

McGrady noticed the subs the second he walked into the locker room before the game.
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LOL! Yah, that's true, Matt Jackson was talking about it on the "Nightshift" before the game, I was cracking up the whole time on my way home.

I can only wish they will simulate "JVG on mobile" one more time, that's one of the funniest bits you will ever hear, you can't tell the difference between the guy and the 'real' JVG...hilarious stuff.

Deuce · Jan 26, 2006

v3.0 said:

Gawd, I hate that goofy smile on Drexler, it's almost like "I can't believe I'm getting paid for the half @ss commentating that I do!"...
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LOL!!! hilarious!

YallMean · Jan 26, 2006

I was impressed by Hayes and Baxter this game. These two should stay. Quickness is what our front line lacks right now. Now granted the opposition was weak today, these two showed some promise and freshness.

JuNx · Jan 26, 2006

Any Torrent Highlights?

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