damn, why send Yao on Shaq on that play? And tell Yao not to get cheap fouls. He was automatic on the offensive side and damn we had to take him out! DAMN!
man, i know it's hard to do, but just let him have the dunk yao. when you're tearing shaq a new one on offense no basket is important enough to foul to stop. it's just crazy how far yao has come from first being so scared of shaq to now almost doing whatever he feels like. now if we could just get him to figure out how to do this to the potapenko's of the world we'd be set.
SF and Cat penetrate and feed to MoT and Cato, and get Shaq in the air and a foul! That will be my plan.
MoT's getting his shot swatted on the weakside. Might be wise to start making a wrap around pass towards Cato for an easy jam. Lakers are absolutely terrible on switching on defense.
At least against the Lakers, when Yao is not on the court, the Rockets suck badly and is a totally different team.
ahh sweet, we have 3 guys, all starters, with 4 fouls and the lakers have 2, one of them brian cook, with 3. didn't payton basically just jump into mobley then fall down off the collision. geez.
'cause they don't practics fancy passes like this. MoT seems to be very hesitant in the paint. Go strong, initiate contact, and I think refs will call 4th foul on Shaq to even the ground between him and Yao.
Lakers are trying to fight the Rockets' greatest strengths. They are allowing Yao to basically have no physical contact in the paint. Also, they are trying to attack to basket due to their lack of outside shooting. Even Bryant isn't canning the shots tonight from outside. There's no way any team gets points consistently against the Rockets' paint defense.
man, we can't even get brian cook in foul trouble. he steps on the circle and turns his shoulder into steve and they don't give us a call. i'm on pins and needles watching yao just hoping foul #5 doesn't come anytime soon.
Looks like Yao-shooting-over-the-top-of-the-key has become an option to bail out 24-sec violation. That one was so close!
I don't think after this team Shaq can say he didn't get the calls. Refs are calling in favor of him and Lakers, there is no doubt about it.
man, **** THE REFS! mo gets flattened w/ no call and they have the nerve to give us the offensive foul about 5 seconds later on the other end when fisher created just as much contact as francis? way to keep it even boys.
