Play the bench, rest the starters. They are playing at a very, very high level, primed for the playoffs. They have nothing to prove. I wouldn't even put Tracy, Yao and Battier on the floor. Give the end of the bench a chance to strut their stuff. Heck, even sit Rafer. To hell with the Jazz. Kill them this weekend.
This game means nothing, its like a preseason game before the real games start. I guess you can call this game a preplay-off game. Tmac and Yao prabably won't play, or get limited minutes. NOVACK, NOVACK, NOVACK, I wan't to see him hit a bunch of 3's like when I watched him in college. I remember when my cousin had to play his high school team a couple of years ago, and Novack was draining those 3's all day
JVG will order Deke to remove all protective gear, making him an injury-dishing maniac. He will be relentless, unleashing lethal career ending elbows, droppin Jazz players like a mad Spartan on a Persion batallion. Jerry Sloan will have to start himself in game 1.
at Guard, from Illinois, 6' 3" sophomore, #2, Luther Head! at Power Forward, from Michigan, 6' 9" veteran, #5, Juwan Howard at Guard, in his second year out of Oklahoma State, standing at 5'11",#15, John Lucas III at Forward, fresh out of Marquette University, 6' 10", #20, Steve Novak And your starting Center for the Rockets, from Georgetown University,originally from Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo), at 7' 2", number 55, Dikembe Mutombo Mpolondo Mukamba Jean Jacque Wamutombo! Dikembe- 10 points 11 rebounds 9 blocks JL3- 15 points 9 assists J Ho- 13 points 11 rebounds Head- 5-6 3% leading scorer 21 points Novak- 3-3 3% career high 10 points Tmac off the bench- 19 points 7 rebounds 6 assists Yao off the bench- 20 points 12 rebounds in 22 minutes Rockets 115-99
I don't know about you guys, but I would love to see a 53-win season for the Rockets, so I hope that the Jazz will simply lie down and play dead for this game.
I dont know if we are going to rest, they may want to keep the roll going. I could see the starters playing the first half, running some plays, trying some things out that they could exploit in the playoffs, then go scrubs 2nd half I just dont see them resting completely from what they said after the last game but we shall see.. id love to see us put the scrubs in, it would be interesting to see what sloan does. if he matches or decides to just pound our scrubs.
a win,but the outcome does not matter anyway,no injury. BTW, look at this: http://www.nba.com/news/crawford_070417.html
I like you're attitude, lets not kid ourselves this team cannot just turn it on when they need to. Keep the momentum going take our nice little streak back home to start the playoffs.
ROFL I'd like to see Deke and Jake split the minutes at C. JL3 and Snyder will get much more minutes.
