ClutchFans Game Thread: Rockets @ Jazz 4/28/2007 (Playoffs Round 1, Game 4)

...To be fair, T-mac was doubled. At the half-court line.

Jeez, what is he supposed to do, fly there?

 

yes... and there's more to the game than stats alone...

rafer is no defensive specialist, but overall, he has made deron to work for his points for the most part... lay off rafer, we would be in a deeper hole without him today...

 

Did he think there wasn't any time left? Did he not care?

 

what did you mean ?

 

Rafer is our best option at PG. End of story. Who else is better? Lucas? Spanoulis? You would have to pick the lesser of the three evils and Rafer's it.

As for the Rockets, these guys want to lose. Look at their body language. Who gets up for a Game 4, after a Game 3 defeat, looking like they just got up from sleeping? There's absolutely no fire in this team. None whatsoever.

If we lose this game and eventually the series, I've lost complete faith in McGrady to lead a team. Yao isn't far behind either. You wouldn't see Kobe lollygagging like that.

 

what the hell is TMac doing? He has 5 seconds but he didn't even try to attempt? That's unaceptable!!

 

If luther gets more than 5 min in the 2nd half, we are in trouble.

 

it is obvious that he loves chunk

 

who is? we've played a whole season at this point. everybody else (head, vspan, jl3) have all sucked ass when we let them play pg. i think it's fairly well proven at this point. who are we going to turn to?


and what did utah score on, about 9 of their last 10 possessions to end that quarter? either a make, an oreb, or a deflection by us for a layup.

 

this team has problems. 5 seconds is just trashed as they are leading.

 

We're doing a good job on Boozer. Unfortunately, Deron is hitting his shots for now.

 

Oh boy, our FG% is better, but all that is useless if we let them score 50 on us by half time.

In addition, we suck at 3 point shooting tonight as well. 10% 3 point shooting ... 1 for 10 attempts. That's pathetic.

Rocket zoom

 

Yes, he is scoring and Rox is loosing. He becomes KB II now.

 

I saw Yao missed off at Tracy when they walked off court. On the subject, Lakers in its any reasonable mind won't trade Kobe for Tracy. They are not the same level.

 

maybe t-mac is injured or hurt or something? His back is acting up?

 

This is 4 games in a row we are down in the first half. Our intensity level is nonexistent. It's like the Rockets are conceding to the Jazz. Seriously...This series better not be tied.

 

You guys need to f***ing chill. This is a brutal series. Nothing is coming easy for anyone. There is a reason both teams are shooting in the very low 40's. They are both very good defensive teams that contest every shot. Anyone who believed that this would in any way be easy for the Rockets is simply an idiot. Love em or hate em, the Jazz are a good team. They are not going to just let Yao and McGrady go off for 35 ea. w/o making them work extremely hard for it. Yes, the bench has been bad. Open shots have been missed...such is life. The fact remains that this is probably the best 1st round series this season. Both teams are extremely close...as they were in the regular season.

In otherwords...RELAX and try to enjoy the game. Quit b****ing after every missed shot and try to cheer for your Rockets.

 

It took him about a long time to get to that trap. If he busted his butt he would gotten to that spot before the trap came

 

collins is just out there to hammer yao everytime down the court, this is like a hockey game.

 

Yeah, Im hoping DFish's injury comes back to haunt them towards the end.
I'm really worried about our bench. struggle so much. Im glad Rafer is deciding to shoot more this game. More drives to the basket, shoot up enough and SOME gotta fall. What made me mad was Jazz were in the penalty w/ 8 mins in the 2nd qtr and we didnt take advantage of it like Utah did.
Fts = Xfactor