ClutchFans Game Thread: Mavericks @ Rockets 12/15/2007

Lol...you can really blame him. But yeah...were here to support the Rockets...not one player.

 

and Tmac build the house.

 

Dallas looks tougher than us to me, and their leader isnt any tougher. We dont even have the talents to say we are soft.

 

83 Points

Problems at point guard. . yes. Hobbled McGrady . . yes. . . still 83 points. not much offense in this league.

wab

 

It's time....... to make some trades.

 

Toronto L (embarassing)
Philadelphia L (hideous; Yao calls the team soft after this)
Detriot W (predicted L and we deserved an L)
Dallas L (terrible loss at home)
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Orlando L
Denver L
Chicago W
Detroit L
Memphis W
Toronto L
Golden State L
Boston L
Orlando L

(14-19)

The Rockets have played *one* good game since the 6-1 start and that is against Denver. We are very clearly a lottery team right and will stay a lottery team for quite a while to come.

 

Tracy's body language has been bugging like crazy the past couple of games and it's starting to make me think that there needs to be a change. And, one of them needs to be him. I LOVE Tracy when he first came to the Rockets. The fire, the determination, the drive to win, win, win. What happened to it? I don't see it AT ALL. When the game was over, he showed the most emotion the ENTIRE night when Juwan Howard came up to him after the game to say hi. He was smiling like crazy. I know it was just a smile but it rubs me off the wrong way when he didn't show ANY emotion whatsoever during the game. On the court, he looked bored, didn't want to be there, and bleh. I realized he bumped knees and it was bothering him but how fragile is this guy? If I'm not mistaken, he's the most injured Rocket this season.

The camera did a close up of Yao about a minute or two before the game was over and it looked like he was about to break down and cry. His eyes were extremely teary. I have never seen Yao so down before in a Rocket uniform. Juwan also went up to Yao after the game and they smiled, talked for a second, and conversed for a second or two, but Yao's face went back to gloomy, pissed, angry, and just down. I really feel bad for the guy.

I thought this was supposed to be OUR TIME? We're 12-12. The Rockets are better than this. We, the fans, don't deserve it. It's been too long since the Rockets have made a deep run in the playoffs and my patience is starting to run thin.

Just my $.02.

 

PG play was terrible today
Tmac played with no passion
Same problem with last year.. we can't shoot

Think this night was capped off with Juwuan Howard grinning ear to ear after the game. Just kidding atleast Juwuan was a team player.

 

Tracy cares, we saw that after we lost in the playoffs last year. I think him smiling is just his way of reacting to what's going on in his head....

which is probably something along the lines of:


Rick Adelman kills us
Francis needs to leave
We are best with Alston starting, but if anything that just shows how HORRIBLE our PG situation realy is.

Play brooks, give the man a chance. Like 5-10 games give him Francis' minutes or someone; we all saw how quickly Scola began to improve. O wait, what was that, scola played 4 minutes, nvm.

 

yeah, I agree, the PF and PG position, but I don't think it's the excuse

 

Let's keep losing and get a good position in lottery.
Wait! How many bad drafts has Rocket made in 15 years?

 

Any team who has to use Steve Francis and
Luther Head as their Point Guards are doomed to failure!![
SIZE=4]Why on this earth did they activate Brooks from the D League?
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If you have been watching the game there is NO indication
that the Rocket's players are attempting to play the Sacramento
game, infact they don't look like they are playing any game plan
atall.
Next question what happened to the Mike James/ Scola pick &
role where Scola was scoring 20 points a game, why hasn't
that been incorporated into our play book? Answer there isn'ta
play book, as far as I can see. +

 

Very true. I care way too much.

 

I am ready to trade Tracy Mcgrady

 

Story of the game:
Tmac took 18 shots, 16 of them were jumpers.

Soft?

 

the players especially tmac doesnt even care about winning anymore, so sad for yao because he still cares.

 

These games are not meant to be taken lightly. The Mavs is a top tier-team that your suppose to get up for, especially with 2 days rest.

Yao showed up, played with heart. Tmac needs to get off the court if hes too hurt to play. But when your on the court you give it all you got, else let some other eager player looking for playing time get a shot at it.

Rick, where the hell is the preparation? How many times did you see a pass where no one was standing? And when there was someone standing, it was a dallas MAV.

This game confirms for me, that steve has lost a lot of quickness, and he wasn't
blazing fast to begin with.

 

So now the excuse is that these players don't fit Adelman's system?

Wasn't he the coach who adapted to the players he had and tailored the offense to their strengths? Meanwhile, JVG was supposed to be the guy who forced players to be something they are not?

Check the role players' stats from last season to this season:

Shane's numbers are down.
Rafer's numbers are down
Head's numbers are down
Chuck is still Chuck (I guess at least this offense doesn't keep him from rebounding)

 

soft is not even right anymore he is becoming incompetent

 

If we beat the grizzlies,sixers,raptors, heat don't blow the last game when we had the mavs down by 11 points. There are like 5 losses that shouldn't have been,if we don't blow those games this game wouldn't be such a big deal.