ClutchFans Game Thread: Heat @ Rockets 12/29/2010

We need our three balls to be falling in order to have a chance in this game. That, and Battier needs to make Lebron work on the defensive end.

 

Guys like Martin, Brooks, Lowry, Miller, and Lee are going to have to bring their 3-point shooting to this one. Chase Budinger better not even see the floor for this game, because if we have even an iota of one of our patented offensive droughts, this game is going to get ugly. I'm thinking we'll keep it close early, but their depth and star power take over in the second half, and they cruise in the 4th.

Heat : 112
Rockets : 99

 

Our bench needs to outscore their bench badly. Then our starting lineup needs to play great defense... and we need to hit a lot 3's!

 

Think there's any chance T-Will takes a few of Bud's minutes in this one? I sure hope so. It's hard to imagine him hurting the team any more than Budinger has lately. He would at least provide some defense.

 

- hill on bosh
- jeffries makes an astonishing start to cover duhBron
- chuckwagon and battier platoon to cover duhBron in the 4th quarter
- lee/lowry cover wade
- martin, AB, miller and scola are DNP-CD

score at the break: 12-7, heat up by 5.

final score: 27-19, rockets win. high scorer: chuck hayes with 9 pts.

GRIND IT OUT BABY

 

Exploit their scrubs!

AB and Lowry need to destroy Arroyo and Chalmers.

Scola, Miller, and Hill need to destroy Bosh, Z, Howard, and Anthony.

 

Rockets Win. Scola will go for 30+ pts

 

We aren't going to base our starting lineup on defensive matchups. We just put our defensive specialists in when one of their players starts getting hot.

I predict a big game from Scola. I'm sure he wasn't happy with his performance yesterday.

 

Yeah, Scola usually goes Beast Mode after a bad game.

 

No shot blockers. Wade and Lebron are gonna have a field day.

 

Long night

Only watt we stay in this game is hitting a good % of our 3's and play great D.

That's asking a lot but we gotta believe!!!

 

Kyle Lowry 6"0 PG Carlos Arroyo 6"2
Kevin Martin 6"7 SG Dwyane Wade 6"4
Shane Battier 6"8 SF LeBron James 6"8
Luis Scola 6"9 PF Chris Bosh 6"10
Chuck Hayes 6"6 C Zydrunas Ilgauskas 7"3

Should we start
Brad Miller 7"0
Jordan Hill 6"10
Should the rockets start a bigger center than Chuck since Miami has the size advantage at every position?

 

where we're gonna be eaten alive happens :grin: :grin:

 

no, cuz you dont have to match position for position defensively. Its likely that Scola will defend Ilgauskas and Hayes will defend Chris Bosh.

 

i know were playing miami but we need to come out strong and keep wade and bron from going in the paint. we need to make our threes and jumpshots

 

I like Battier on Bosh - he doesn't surrender much more height than Scola and probably gets burned less rotating off Bosh to help than with the other two.

I'd flip Chuck on LBJ, Shane on Bosh and Scola on Z and switch damn near everything on P&R.

 

please don't play cbud in this game..he can't guard anyone

 

Can't wait for all the idiot humans to start booing Lebron and the heat because its the "trendy" thing to do. Without realizing that all it will "really" do is make the Heat play harder and whip up on this team. Idiots.

 

The Rockets should lose this game, but I am not sure they will. This team seems to get up for games like these. IF they are smoking hot from the three point line and play a little defense, well, this is probably wishful thinking, but they could win. It will have to be one of their best games of the year. LeBron and the Cavs used to struggle with the Rockets on occasion. I predict that Martin and Brooks will be the difference if they win and that the Rockets will have more trouble with Wade than LeBron or Bosh.

 

They ALWAYS boo anyone playing against us. Are they always "idiots" or only this time?