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ClutchFans Game Thread: Rockets @ Blazers 1/25/2008

Discussion in 'Houston Rockets: Game Action & Roster Moves' started by Clutch, Jan 24, 2008.

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kwng said:

Here's some comments from the blazeredge media
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These guys are going to be very good in a few years. They've got the perimeter shooting, now they just need Oden to give them frontcourt presence.

#1101 blender, Jan 26, 2008

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big numbers
rockets freethrow %.........82.8
trailblazers home W streak before tonight..........12
chuck hayes' minutes.........7
yao, scola, landry's boards.........10, 12, 8
yao, scola, landry's points..........11, 11, 12
offensive boards..........15
trailblazers shooting %..........35.7
high scorer for rockets...........t mac 15 pts.

bad numbers
turnovers..........20
fouls on yao.......5

#1102 WesmanTexanfan, Jan 26, 2008
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Just checked NBA.com and i was glad to see a victory and after i read almost all pages i'm impressed by almost everybody. RA gets a lot of credit with giving the rookies confidence to close out a close game and what a game they had. Scola and Landry together = 20 Rebounds, 9 on OFFENSE !!
A great sign for the rookies but i hope not something that will hurt Hayes' confidence because we need him on Sunday. Did you see the Jazz' boxscore of last night's win: Boozer had 33 pts for 15/19 shooting. For that not to happen Yao and Hayes got to be in full gear and shut him down. Don't get me wrong i'm really happy about how Yao plays but still he could do a lot better when it comes to blocking shots. He needs to get some blocks from the weakside like Olajuwon. He used to come out of nowhere to block another man's shot and Yao is twice as tall so he should get a few more blocks per game like that easily. If Yao can add that to his repertoire he would be right up there with Olajuwon as one of the best centers ever played.

Great victory and let's keep the streak going !!

Go Rockets, 5-0 baby !!

#1103 Jelle, Jan 26, 2008
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T-Mac, Rockets Snap Blazers Home Win Streak
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"One thing about our young guys, they're not afraid," McGrady said of Landry and Brooks. "They're not afraid to be in that situation down the stretch in ballgames...You don't expect three rookies to be on the court in a tough game like this, but they came through tonight. I didn't expect after 11 years to be out there in crucial situations with three rookies. I can't fathom that right now. Those guys played great basketball and they played hard."

http://www.click2houston.com/nba/11663973/detail.html

#1104 LewLLOYD, Jan 26, 2008
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Jelle said:

Just checked NBA.com and i was glad to see a victory and after i read almost all pages i'm impressed by almost everybody. RA gets a lot of credit with giving the rookies confidence to close out a close game and what a game they had. Scola and Landry together = 20 Rebounds, 9 on OFFENSE !!
A great sign for the rookies but i hope not something that will hurt Hayes' confidence because we need him on Sunday. Did you see the Jazz' boxscore of last night's win: Boozer had 33 pts for 15/19 shooting. For that not to happen Yao and Hayes got to be in full gear and shut him down. Don't get me wrong i'm really happy about how Yao plays but still he could do a lot better when it comes to blocking shots. He needs to get some blocks from the weakside like Olajuwon. He used to come out of nowhere to block another man's shot and Yao is twice as tall so he should get a few more blocks per game like that easily. If Yao can add that to his repertoire he would be right up there with Olajuwon as one of the best centers ever played.

Great victory and let's keep the streak going !!

Go Rockets, 5-0 baby !!
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Yao and Hayes will not shut Boozer down, hes jsut too good.But I'll tell you what they can do and that is contain him.

#1105 T-mac&Yao=RING, Jan 26, 2008
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Sorry, here's the link
http://www.blazersedge.com/

#1106 kwng, Jan 26, 2008
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"We played hard," Scola said. "Sometimes you need a difference. Sometimes you need experience. Sometimes you just need to fight."
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This quote by Scola showed that sometimes fighting win games.

[url http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/sports/5487336.html [/urk]

#1107 kwng, Jan 26, 2008

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Why all the hate on Hayes?

Let's not be quick to forget all the work he's put in. Landry and Scola are enticing, especially on offense, but don't undermine the value of Hayes.

But yeah. He sucks. He sucks so much that without that block on Durant, we would've probably lost that game in Seattle.

#1108 ShadyMcGrady, Jan 26, 2008
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Here's an interesting blog by Feigen

Extra, extra: Citizen Yao declares Rockets Rookies Real Deal

As I walked into the visitor's lockerroom in the Rose Garden - and at about 10 minutes before the midnight deadline before the door opened I probably was not walking - Yao Ming called me over to his corner and showed what he was doing in the last 7 ½ minutes of the game when he was not needed.

He was writing headlines.

"This is the headline I want to see in the Houston Chronicle tomorrow," Yao said.

"So good, so young."

Not bad.

Steven Jeffress, the editor who handled the game story for Rockets 89, Trail Blazers 79 tonight, at first thought Yao might need to start coming in to read copy on off nights. But then, Steven said that Yao needs to work on "one column specs." (That's editor talk for it won't fit, though I think in Chinese characters Yao would have easily made it in the Chronicle one-column layout of the game story.)

Steven went with:

Rookies

Ignite

Rockets

Either way, the point was clear.

The Rockets beat the Blazers on Friday because rookies Luis Scola, Carl Landry and Aaron Brooks outplayed the Portland kids. Scola went for 11 and 12, Landry for 12 and 11. Aaron Brooks came in and tore through the Portland press, getting eight points and four assists.

But they also played with their usual energy and intensity. It helped that the Blazers, one of the league's best shooting teams this season, could not shoot. They made just 7 of 30 shots in the second half. The NBA's youngest team (and third-youngest ever, though that includes injured rookie Greg Oden and D-leagued rookie Josh McRoberts) had the Rockets kids come in and outwork them.

The Rockets will not win often with Yao going 2 of 8 and Tracy McGrady 5 of 15. But there is never a night that the Rockets rookies do anything that seems to be a fluke.

Carl Landry (5 of 6 on Friday) might not make 77.8 percent of his shots the rest of his career, but he seems very capable and finding open spots, catching the McGrady passes and bending rims with regularity. Brooks will keep getting better, especially at the point, where he had his best game of the past three. And Scola is as solid as it gets, no longer making the learning-curve mistakes of the first months of the season.

Ten days earlier, the Rockets fell apart in the fourth quarter and lost at home to the 76ers. Since then, they have won four games, all by holding on or surging ahead late. They have moved to within a game of eighth-place Portland.

The post-season race will likely go on all season. The Rockets position and mood can change dramatically even in the next two games, against tied-for-eighth Utah and seventh-place Golden State. There have been some warts in these recent wins, from the poor shooting against San Antonio, to the terrible defense in Seattle to the turnovers in Portland. But they seem to have found bench they can rely on, and kids to grow with.

The next two games should be interesting - and the subject of my off-day story if Yao wants to start working on the headline.

Posted by Jonathan Feigen at January 26, 2008 12:56 AM
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http://blogs.chron.com/nba/2008/01 citizen_yao_declares_these_roo.html

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ShadyMcGrady said:

Why all the hate on Hayes?

Let's not be quick to forget all the work he's put in. Landry and Scola are enticing, especially on offense, but don't undermine the value of Hayes.

But yeah. He sucks. He sucks so much that without that block on Durant, we would've probably lost that game in Seattle.
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I think folks here still love Hayes a lot.
In such a long season, it is impossible for a player playing in top form every game.
I will take it anytime if he plays with his heart.

#1110 99bb, Jan 26, 2008
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We're so lucky to ge this one. You don't win too many games when you turn the ball over like we did. Oh well, ugly game, huge win. Bring on the Utah Jazzholes!

#1111 Angkor Wat, Jan 26, 2008
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Tfor3 said:

What pessimism from these posters, all of the below posters, and all the other negative posters have been called out(except Tfor3 of course,....I said this would be a positive statement game, rox win)

You were saying?^

You were saying?

Boy, did the Rockets prove you wrong

My response to your dumb comments Mr. thumbs:

YOUR RESPONSE TO MY COMMENTS:

Oh, you're a realist, more like a fake-gutless fan and here are the commnets from your fanboy:

Go Scola, Brooks the Blur, Carl Mr. Hops Landry, Tmac, Yes-Yao too, Shane, Bonzi, sort of rafer too and chuck...but our defense that led to fast break opportunities that ultimately were turned over instead of converted for points drove me nuts in the 3Q. But, we came out with energy and authority and had they cut down the t/os and tmac hitting the last 3..we would have beat them by 20, NOT 10 in Portland

Lets go Rockets.
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You got me, but no more than reverse physicology here... although you have to admit I was right about yao and tracy having off nights.

#1112 johnnytc5, Jan 26, 2008
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hmmm. held blazers to 29 points in the second half...
i'd say we were at least playing pretty good defense.
and in the clutch, we just took the game.
i wouldn't say it was a horrible game...
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let me preface my comment by saying i was tuning in and out of the game for the most part since i was at a friend's place.... and i missed a large portion of the 4th quarter.

i think my "horribly" comment is mainly due to the ridiculous turnovers we kept making, especially the fastbreak ones in the 3rd.

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This game is good for my heart.. High beat at the first and relax down at the end...

#1114 IndonesiaFans, Jan 26, 2008
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awsome win!!.....i can't believe all those turnovers and we still pull it out....Blazers were 17-3 at home before we went inthere and kicked some A$$!!

#1115 dreammvp, Jan 26, 2008
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Who would've thought before the season that 40 games in Steve Francis would be inactive, Mike James would be getting no PT, and Aaron Brooks and Carl Landry would be getting extensive 4th quarter minutes? I think it's time to do some trades. Get something for Mike James while you still can....

#1116 BarkleyHater84, Jan 26, 2008
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ShadyMcGrady said:

Why all the hate on Hayes?

Let's not be quick to forget all the work he's put in. Landry and Scola are enticing, especially on offense, but don't undermine the value of Hayes.

But yeah. He sucks. He sucks so much that without that block on Durant, we would've probably lost that game in Seattle.
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its not hate, i love him, but he has absolutly no business starting for this team.

#1117 WesmanTexanfan, Jan 26, 2008
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gotta love this team

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tmac showed his growing leadership again. he chewed out scola and scola responded. and he trusted his teammates tremendously tonight.
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im really starting to hate tmac.. he does not have the right to talk to scola like he did.. who is he to talk like that? no heart, no leadership, cancer to the team. And scola? heart, leadership, fire, team player.. like i said before at the beggining it will be good to have tmac back but for sure since he is the best player hes negative heartless attitude will again spread like a cancer to this team.. some of the executives need to listen to what im sayin.. let tmac do good. let his trade value grow this season.. then trade his a**.. we will never win with him here.. did any one see how he was talking to landry? i know hes a rookie but thats just negative way to come at the rookie its probably in a way jeperdising the growth of landry bc they are gonna be scared to play with fire with Mclazy's a** out there.. let his trade value grow and then trade him for some younger talent.. i would love to see NOcioni here.. he has the fire and team spirit and his talent is really growing as a scorer.

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im really starting to hate tmac.. he does not have the right to talk to scola like he did.. who is he to talk like that? no heart, no leadership, cancer to the team. And scola? heart, leadership, fire, team player.. like i said before at the beggining it will be good to have tmac back but for sure since he is the best player hes negative heartless attitude will again spread like a cancer to this team.. some of the executives need to listen to what im sayin.. let tmac do good. let his trade value grow this season.. then trade his a**.. we will never win with him here.. did any one see how he was talking to landry? i know hes a rookie but thats just negative way to come at the rookie its probably in a way jeperdising the growth of landry bc they are gonna be scared to play with fire with Mclazy's a** out there.. let his trade value grow and then trade him for some younger talent.. i would love to see NOcioni here.. he has the fire and team spirit and his talent is really growing as a scorer.
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BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!
quit hattin, i've added you to my crow eating list for april!!!

#1120 WesmanTexanfan, Jan 26, 2008

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