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

Game 5 @HOU Mon Apr 30 7:00 pm

 

They are not a horrible team but they only have one true superstar and he just became one. They are a great defense team but other than that they are just mediocre. The Rockets when clicking on all cylinders shoud be demolishing this team. I can't help but to think if Yao and Tracy had been healthy all year we could have pulled out 8 more wins and hit 60 don't you agree. I can say one thing about the Rockets they were rarely blown out all year and they usually bounced back from tough losses....I still say we win in 7...IMO....

 

Makes me wonder if this game was rigged just for the NBA ratings or just to make more $$ form the fans! I knew we would lose game 3.

 

Better to have a game where we played this poorly happen tonight rather than in a game 7 situation.

It was awful, but it isn't anything we can't overcome.

There is no way the loss is because of the officiating, and Jazz flopping, but it is amazing, and annoying how much like the old Jazz teams they looked tonight with those antics. I guess they were into the game and desperate and looking for any advantage they could.

 

This game was UGLY...Oscar was right. Tmac shot bad jumpers all game.

 

BLAZED....

 

Rockets need a starting 4.

 

That was the most PITIFUL performance ever for this team. And as much as I hate to say this, I think I understand why TMac has never won a playoff series. He seemed to lose interest in the second half. No pumping up his teammates, no fire, no intensity, just extremely poor shot selection. Inexcusable. Yao was no ball of fire either and the role players were utterly missing in inaction. Embarassing. If this game was about the issue of whether or not this team has a killer instinct, the case is closed.

 

If they play well, we can beat anybody. If they play like tonight, we can't beat a high school team.

 

At least Rockets made the record books with this along with scoring the fewest points in Rocket playoff history 64pts scored beat the old 70pts scored and yes it was against the Jazz.

 

I don't think it's bandwagoning to point out that of our 3 postseason games so far, the number of games in which we've played well enough to get through the second round is zero.

 

actually didn't look like the refs fell for it all too much. can't pn this one on jazz flopping, pin it on the rox houdini act

 

Woh slow down ther boy.....!!!!!!!

 

I don't know who played worse today, the Rockets or the Astros

 

Woh slow down there boy.....!!!!!!!

 

I second this. Come on, it is way too early to panic. They played an embarrassingly bad game tonight, but what is the odds of that happening again? The playoffs is about game-to-game adjustment, and I am sure the team will adjust and come back much stronger in Game 4. I am still confident that we are going to finish the series in 5.

SI

 

Boogeyman checks under his bed for Juwan Howard with a ball in his hand before going to sleep.

 

Which was a worse performance, Game 7 vs. Dallas, or tonight??

 

As bad as Luther was offensively, he was even worse defensively. Somebody needs to get up in his grill and bark at him to wake him up. He's acting like he's stoned out there.

 

You know, I keep telling myself "We're gonna shoot better the next game", but i also wondered...what if we NEVER shoot any better than this?.....

I really think the physical play of the jazz is affecting our shooting. It's throwing our rhythm off on offense.