ClutchFans Game Thread: Rockets @ Heat 11/12/2006

aussiejack · Nov 13, 2006

Mr. Mooch said:

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doesnt juwan look so useful in that photo?

JohnMatrix · Nov 13, 2006

m004378 said:

Yao is starting to believe that he is "the one"...Seeing how Yao progressed is like watching the movie "Matrix"
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"Matrix"? yeah ... here i am ...

RocketFire · Nov 13, 2006

Nice Job on the Article, CLUTCH!!. Its on the first Page. Great read.

Stevie Wonder · Nov 13, 2006

I swore when I was watching the game I heard a lets go Rockets chant, I knew I wasn't hearing things. Damn there must of been a lot of Rocket fans at the game, that chant was deffinately noticable.

Uneek · Nov 13, 2006

Wow! great videos and pics! thanks alot!
Sony.... what can i say... awesome!

jeffrey523 · Nov 13, 2006

Yao~~~!!!unstoppable~~

Uneek · Nov 13, 2006

Zboy said:

Damn! People always miss the sarcasm in my posts!

yeah yeah...i know he was referring to Shaq, but i wanted to cut Wade some slack.

Atleast Yaofan and uneek got it!

Thanks you two!
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NO THANK YOU!! reading your posts give me a different way of enjoying the game than others. dont have much chance to watch Rockets at all since im in AUS. Well... keep it up!

RocketFire · Nov 13, 2006

Where are you R2K?

Matador · Nov 13, 2006

OK, I don't know whee else to post this cuz it probably doesn't deserve its own thread.

I just listening to AM 740 here in Houston which is the radio news station. In listening to the hourly sports update I was hoping to hear some more about the Rockets whupping the Heat but instead I get indepth coverage of the Dynamos and Texans and the Rockets (score only) is mentioned as an afterthought. No mention of Yao's dominance or anything. I would have at least thought the Houston media would given the Rocekts more props.

tdle6671 · Nov 13, 2006

R2K, where are you? I was at work so didn't watch the match. I am downloading the game video from http://davka.info/ but this feels so wrong, kinda like betraying a good friend.

Sorry.

Matador · Nov 13, 2006

NBA TV recap coverage of the game:

The Good:
Gave Yao "Player of the Night" honors
Said in highlights that the night belonged to Yao
Showed snippet of Yao interview on court at end of game
Gave the Rox game "Game of the Night" honors

The Bad:
Intro game snippets of the show when talking about Heat v Rox showed Shaq winning opening tip and a Shaq dunk (although Yao dominated Shaq they show 2 positive Shaq plays as openers to the show???)
Only showed 2 Yao highlites

qrui · Nov 13, 2006

macfan said:

http://www.nba.com/heat/chat/quotes_061112.html

HEAT Head Coach Pat Riley

On the game:
“It was two different halves for us. I thought our defense and schemes were good in the first half. They weren’t shooting the ball well and then when it got into the 60’s is when the game was decided. They got three hoops in a row and got it to 10. From 10 on, Tracy (McGrady) and Yao (Ming) made every single play and it just went. Tracy was great in the fourth and Yao was a load. We got our heads handed to us in the second half.”

On the performance of Yao Ming and Tracy McGrady:
“They do a great job. It’s a little bit like watching Shaq and Dwyane (Wade) when they are on their game. The one thing (Yao) has is that he makes turn around jumpers. In the fourth quarter we over reacted to Tracy’s pick-and-roll plays. Instead of playing him like we normally play him, we started to change up things.”

On the HEAT’s defensive effort:
“Defensively we weren’t as sharp as we were against New Jersey and I’m just saying that Houston was very, very good in the second half. They’re hard to score on anyhow. They don’t give you anything in the paint.”

HEAT Forward James Posey

On the game:
“You have to give them a lot of credit. They executed on both ends and got stops when they needed to. They made plays down the stretch. They made some adjustments and executed. We just didn’t do a good job on the defensive end. We didn’t make plays when we had the chance. We just have to come ready to work tomorrow and practice a little bit and correct some of those mistakes.”

HEAT Center Shaquille O'Neal

On the game:
“We just kind of had some lapses in our defense. I think when the game was 70-66, we had a chance to buckle down and tighten up but we had some lapses in our defense. We let T-Mac (Tracy McGrady) get into the lane and he just kicked it out to Luther Head a couple times and Yao Ming hit a couple tough shots. We just need to pick our defense up, especially in the fourth quarter.”

On Yao Ming:
“He’s still pretty much the same. He hit a lot of tough shots tonight and when you’re playing against a guy like that, 7’6”, 7’8”, you’re not going to block his shot. You just got to try and push him out and play him tough.”

HEAT Guard Dwyane Wade

On the game:
“We were a little flat on offense. They did a good job of running their offense. Yao (Ming) hit some tough shots to help give them the lead. They played good.”

“I just couldn’t really get into the flow offensively. I missed shots that I normally hit.”

On Tracy McGrady’s comment that Yao Ming is the best center in the league:
“We know who the best center in the league is.”

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Houston Rockets Head Coach Jeff Van Gundy

On Dwyane Wade:
“Dwyane Wade is hard to guard as anybody in the league. I don’t know if there is a good way to guard him, except try hard.”

On Tracy McGrady:
“Some nights he shoots a lot. Some nights he passes a lot. I am not sure how he sees what he sees. I am just glad he sees what he sees. I can’t see what he sees. That vision is incredible.”

Rockets Forward Shane Battier

On the game:
“We did a good job defensively. We did a good job keeping them out of the lane and keeping them off the free-throw line. If you can do that against a good team you have a better shot of winning.”

On defending Dwyane Wade:
“If I have to do that every night, I’ll be an old man quick. He’s really good. There’s a reason why he is all NBA. He’s tough. He keeps coming at you every single night. The best you can do is just keep chasing him around and putting a hand in his face and hope he misses the next time down the floor.”

Rockets Forward Yao Ming

On defending Shaquille O’Neal:
“It’s a hard job. He’s a dominant center in this league. Between the playoff’s and the regular season last year, he was a totally different Shaq. Obviously, the regular season there is one level. One day I can match up against him.”

On the fourth quarter and the team’s energy:
“That is our mindset. My only chance against Shaq is to keep him on the run. Shaq is much stronger and bigger than me. My only chance on beating him is to keep running and running against him.”

Rockets Forward Tracy McGrady

On the second half of the game:
“That is a sign of a good team. When you struggle offensively in the first half, and you come out in the fourth quarter and you do everything right. We played good defensive. We did all the little things. You go down and you execute on offense. That’s what a great team has to do. Tonight we made a couple strides forward.”
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thanks for sharing. but what's up with this?

great win!!! now the media doesn't have any excuses for not recognizing yao's force, wondering what they are going to say now.

bgismh · Nov 13, 2006

The ESPN analysts were brown-nosing the Heat too much. Without Wade's insane number of free throws he got from the refs last year they probably would have gotten swept in the Finals.

We kept Wade off the line and showed everyone that the Heat suck without Wade bailing them out with free throws.

Any praise we got from Greg Anthony was given reluctantly and probably only because he did'nt want to look too much like an a-hole. Even then he nitpicked over Yao's offensive rebounding when Yao was by far the best player in the game.

DaDakota · Nov 13, 2006

For those talking about hearing all the Rockets chants...

Remember this is the game that season ticket holders got to travel with the team........I think about 500 season ticket holders went to Miami to catch this game......

That is probably why you heard all the Rockets chants.....

DD

cmcortese · Nov 13, 2006

jVgOwnsYou said:

While I agree that he does not look like the old Tmac, did you even watch the 4th quarter? He completely dominated the game with his penetration and passing. The stats don't tell the whole story. His outside jumper is off, but when he attacks the basket, he was able to make a lot of plays.
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this is true.

conquistador#11 · Nov 13, 2006

Just like the Bengals wide receiver,chad johnson,had a list of "who guarded eighty-five in 2005",Yao ming should have a "who guarded number eleven in 06-07" list posted in his locker =).....You photoshoping geniuses should get to work on it .

pluto · Nov 13, 2006

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napalm · Nov 13, 2006

RocketFire said:

Nice Job on the Article, CLUTCH!!. Its on the first Page. Great read.
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I just wanted to emphasize this. Great read Clutch, thanks.

yaoonlyfanhuh · Nov 13, 2006

pluto said:

here are http links you guys can download from ,quite fast

1st quarter: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=988BYG0A
2nd qutater:http://www.megaupload.com/?d=7QG69LL5
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4...........： http://www.megaupload.com/?d=E13MLSRA

download steps :
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put in the letters you get
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Thanks, man. The vidoe's quality is good.

gaily · Nov 13, 2006

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