ClutchFans Game Thread: Rockets @ Jazz 4/26/2007 (Playoffs Round 1, Game 3)

Rockets 95
Jazz 91

 

ICAN'T WAIT FOR THIS GAMEEEE

I'm glad everyone wants the Rockets to go 3-0 on the Jazz

 

Rockets shoot lights out... go up 3-0!!
Break out the brooms!!

 

Wish I had NBATV

 

as opposed to going 2:1

 

If the rockets win this they've got the series won. T-Mac and Yao are going to have to have a good night if they want to win this game. T-mac will 30 and yao 25

 

At nba.com it says that there is a free preview but when I go to in it it doesn't show up.

 

rockets 102
jazz 101

 

I mean, i like that everyone is predicting us to go up 3:0 as opposed to 2:1

 

urghhhhhhh i'm so mad that they're scheduling this game on NBA TV instead of TNT!!!!!!!!!!!!! this sucks for Rockets fans outside of Texas.....i hate NBA for doing this and i hate their stupid NBA TV channel. if their going to have an NBA channel they should make it available in more households like the NFL did with the NFL Network. i'm so pissed off right now....out of all the games they put the Houston game on NBA TV....they should have put the Suns vs. Lakers game on it instead since that sucks.

 

let me guess, the X-factor of this game is Head and Okur
who shoot better his team will win~~

 

KURT KRAGTHORPE: Jazz can win if Rockets don't heat up
By Kurt Kragthorpe
Tribune Columnist
Article Last Updated: 04/25/2007 09:50:44 AM MDT


So the Jazz are coming home to EnergySolutions Arena to resume their playoff series Thursday, comforted by the knowledge that they were right there with the Rockets in both games in Houston.
This, then, becomes the issue of the day: What happens when the Rockets start playing well?
Houston's horrible shooting gave the Jazz every chance to win Game 1 or Game 2, but they graciously declined to seize control of either contest. They left the Toyota Center labeling Monday's game, in particular, as "winnable" - one of those words in sports that's both haunting as you look back and promising as you look forward.
"We were close," Matt Harpring was saying in the losing locker room. "We were close."
That repeated description speaks of both validation and missed opportunities. "We played two quality games here," said Andrei Kirilenko, evidently evaluating everybody else.
The Jazz believe they can beat Houston, and they should, to this degree: They are every bit as good as those guys - as long as the Rockets keep playing the way they're playing, which is probably not a sure thing.
Can Houston keep shooting this badly, hitting one-fourth of its three-point attempts? Was combining to make one-third of their shots Monday the worst Tracy McGrady and Yao Ming could possibly do? Those are the biggest questions going forward, not so much what the Jazz
need to do.
Not that I'm lacking suggestions for them.
The Jazz have done a lot of good things in two games. There's Harpring's consistency; book him for 14 points on 7-for-14 shooting every night, although a few free-throw attempts would be nice. There's Deron Williams' all-around game, adding rebounding to his skill set. There's Carlos Boozer's recovery from his Game 1 struggles to score 41 points in what would be remembered as an epic performance, except the Jazz lost.
They also could use the following improvements:
- Solve the A.K. problem. I'm talking temporarily, because the long-term subject of what to do with, for or to Kirilenko will hover over the entire offseason. It is stunning to think he was once an All-Star, once the franchise's best player. Someone or something has affected him, beyond the fact the team has added more talent.
This week's solution is to just give him a few minutes here and there, hoping he helps defensively, and play Harpring about three-fourths of the game.
- Get Mehmet Okur going offensively. Or are we going to spend the summer blaming Melisa Okur for the wobbling finish of her father's All-Star season? Memo's game has not been the same since she was born last month, although he did play some outstanding defense against Yao.
Asked if all that effort affected his own offense, Okur replied, "If I say no, it's not true."
Okur also gave Boozer room to launch 30 shots by staying outside and taking only nine shots himself, but he's 4-for-23 in the series. Nobody's calling him "Money" at the moment. He plans to go inside Thursday and work his way back outside, and nothing revs up the home crowd like an Okur three-pointer.
- Avoid the lulls. Sure, it's like expecting a football team to keep scoring on every possession, but the Jazz have had their chances to get the Rockets down and keep them there, and they have to do that at home. If they're ahead by nine at halftime (Saturday) or up by seven late in the first half (Monday), they must "put your foot on the gas pedal," in Harpring's words.
Harpring hopes playing at home will help balance the free-throw totals, after Houston shot 38 of them Monday. He also knows the Rockets have two "great players," the NBA's code phrase for preferential treatment.
The Jazz's problem as the series shifts to Salt Lake City is that the Rockets were almost as good on the road in the regular season as they were at home. Historically, it has also been difficult for the Jazz to win consecutive home games in a series.
Nine times, they have come home in this position, having lost the first two games of a series. Only twice have they won the next two. In nearly every other case, they've won Game 3 and lost Game 4.
So as Marc Iavaroni - yes, Marc Iavaroni - once did, I'm guaranteeing a Game 3 victory for the Jazz. And then it will get interesting. At that point, the Rockets might even have to start making some shots.
kkragthorpe@sltrib.com

 

Subscribe to a Sports package which normally cost around 3 bucks a month.

 

It should have NBATV

 

Jazz is not an easily beaten team. But it's a team Rockets should beat. Let's wait for the sweet result.

 

I hope the(jazz) fall short on their jumpshots and the roxs click on the inside and the outside.




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Type in "0" in google images, it brings up our hero shooting over their zero
http://images.google.com/images?q=0&btnG=Search+Images&svnum=10&um=1&hl=en&gbv=2

 

I don't have NBATV either because I am in China.
I saw Rox's first two games on TV, but Game 3 will be not on TV. What a pity.
Game 3 will be tougher and tougher. If Rox wins, Game 4 will be a closeout. Jazz Suck, Rockets Sweep them.

 

Though CCTV5 won't cast that game, you can watch it online at sohu sports
it will cover the exciting game, you know, also a video

 

A win... but will be ugly.

 

I hope this game won't be like GS vs. Dallas, the refs could really infuriate Tmac, and hopefully at least if he gets ejected, he'll go and knock out Jerry Sloan