ClutchFans Game Thread: Mavericks @ Rockets 4/30/2005 (Playoffs Round 1, Game 4)

Try let Yao go wild on a bad call and get tossed (in a insignificant regular season game, of course).

 

Steve Francis has to be loving this.

 

What the hell is up with the Toyota Center? Damn. Move the home games back to the SUMMIT.

T-Mac needs to remember how the Rockets won their first couple of games, NOT by him trying to do EVERYTHING all game long, but making it easier for other guys and then doing EVERYTHING in the fourth. That's what great players do, they don't care about playing great in the first three quarters and then running out of gas in the fourth, that doesn't win games, especially not playoff games.

Now what happens? Who the hell knows. Best of three, T-Mac needs to have a huge make up game for that Magic-Mac-esque game, he has to go back to the Rocket-Mac we've known this season. As a team the Rockets need to start passing more, they need to have over 20 assists in this next game, they need to keep their turnovers down as well. The fourth quarter has killed them, but again, that's on T-Mac he can't spend on his energy on the meaningless first three quarters, let Yao and the rest of those guys take care of that one.

In the end only two teams have come back to win a 7 game series after losing the first two at home, I still say Rockets in 7.

 

LOL....now that's funny.

 

Unfortunately, the Mavs probably have no less heart than us and much more talent.

 

Mike james was so bad that T-mac had to force himself to bring up the ball a couple of time.

 

We have to figure out a way to get Yao more shots in the next several games in order to win. He was:

13-14
7-11
6-7

in the last 3 games and it is just miserable that Yao was only able to take 7 shots tonight. The guy is shooting over 70% from the floor in the series, and we've got to punish Dallas for playing small ball!

 

Gotta get it done... the el presidente will get us over the hump...



COME ON JEFF, YOU CAN WIN US 2 BACK TO BACK!!!

 

Even if Rockets beat the Mavs, they can't beat the Suns.

 

i feel like crying.

 

Yep, If the situation were reversed and Yao was Dirk and Dirk was Ming, 9 out of 10 times those bloody refs would give drik the call. How can the refs just let somebody rape another guy in his face and not call anything, if somebody blows a kiss on Nowitzky it would be a flagrant foul. That play was crucial as well and MR Dirk was not in foul trouble. If they called that proper foul on the pansy this ball game would have a potential different outcome.

Just sad how we have to fight the refs every freakin game.
The NBA refereeing is sadder than the NHL, and that's saying something.

 

Hey does anyone know some weird voodoo or whatever? T-mac's 1st round bad luck is starting to show so can you do something about it? Come on, do a rain dance or something, I'm getting desperate here...

 

I think after the next season, if the NBA keeps refereeing games like this, then the ONLY way to go is to construct your team in a similar fashion like the Suns or those other teams.

The NBA's new rules are simply killing any team that even bothers to play defense.

Still, the series is best-of-seven, anything short of flowless offense and superb defense will have us lose two games in a row...Dallas is that good.

 

I'm 100% agree with you! I'm really getting sick of those fouls and non fouls calls on Yao.

 

We're a better road team anyway. So Rockets will take two in Dallas, so what.

I believe they will.

 

I always feel that the NBA has the worst referees in the world in the last 20 years. I rarely see such ridiculous star treatment in the international games.

 

Are u a Rockets fan? Or simply a Mavericks fan who pretends to be a Rockets fan?

 

Yes they can. Heck, the winner of this might go the WCFs. I'm sure Phoenix would be REALLY happy to play a loaded Dallas squad.

 

Stop complaining about the refs! It's dumb! Especially this game when we actually shot more free throws than the Mavericks did, and in a game we had but choked away on missed shots and turnovers, not bad refs!

 

We are more Talented IMO

Rocket RIver