ClutchFans Game Thread: Rockets @ Lakers 3/30/2007

Kobe "god you tongue is soo much more active than Vanessa's, I should of bought you a Lambo instead"

YEs its REal

 

more gems

 

just put alston battier tmac hayes all on kobe and yao guard the paint. No other lakers can do much

 

Huge test for Yao Ming. This is a game he should make his prescense felt.

If he fails to impact this game, I will be a little worried.

 

see the way kobe plays has warped your mind. odom and walton are very good players. kobe just ballhogs and thus not let them do their thing.

if u watch them earlier in teh season when kobe took only 19-20 shots a game, odom was putting up 18 and 9 while walton 14 and 6.

let kobe score. he won't beat a good team like us. when he scores, the others just stand around.

 

which Kobe will we see?

the one who comes out looking to take over with his scoring, or the passive one who looks to spread the scoring around.

i get the feeling that we will see the former, consering the mac-kobe dual, and more importantly the way they dropped the last game to the Grizzlies.

Kobe got shafted on some calls in that game too, so look for the refs to be bailing him out on every opportunity.

Plenty opposing us, but we will find a way. Battier and/or Juwan need to give us a scoring boost.



Rockets 104
Fakers 99

Yao 28
McGrady 23

 

Rockets win 111-103.

 

Yao needs to take advantage of the Laker's lack of good big men and score like 30 points.

And if T-mac plays like he has been lately (slashing and 'facilitating'), we'll be fine.

Hopefully Juwan and Luther bounce back from last game.

If all of the above happens expect a blowout!

 

Go RoX!

 

TMAC OUT-SCORE KOBE. ROX WIN.

 

NEW V-Span Blog (Translated)

"Good morning to everyone from LA! I am really starting to like the whole blog thing because it's the most direct way to communicate with you. Not only with sport24.gr readers but lately with the Rockets fans here in the US.

I say this because last time I posted, the whole blog was translated in english within a few hours and posted at a Rockets fans forum (translator's note: gooooooooooooo clutchfans ). Obviously, some crazy (translator's note: greek way of speaking, he means it in a nice way) greek-american had this idea and when I saw it translated to English (translator's note: so he DOES read clutchfans) I was very pleasantly surprised and very impressed.

It is very important as well that in every city we go to with the Rockets, Greeks approach me and show me their love. When you're this far away from home, it's really important when that happens and I sincerely wanna send a big thank you to all our basket-loving compatriots who live in the US.

As you probably know, we are currently in LA for the game vs the Lakers and I'm sure the first thing you guys want me to comment on are Kobe Bryant's unreal games. Exactly as I said: unreal.

From the 81 points vs the Raptors to this year's four in a row 50+ games, Kobe is writing his own page in the history of professional basketball. This player cannot be stopped by personal defense but only by team defense. The NBA works more with a one-on-one defense which is why we see him scoring 65 in a single game.

The hype around his name is, I would say, completely normal, because he is worth being mentioned by the media in their stories and discussed by basketball fans. There is only one thing I don't like:

The comparison with Michael Jordan, which is of course inevitable due to the records broken every year by Kobe. There will never be another MJ. Maybe Kobe is the closest there is, however every player is unique and comparisons are pointless...

Let's leave this subject however and focus on our team. Soon, the regular season will end and our goal is to overtake Utah Jazz in order to gain home-court advantage.

With the season approaching its end, there are no easy games because on one hand, the opponents want to win as many games as possible to get the best record and on the other, players in teams not making the play-offs give everything they got in order to get better contracts during the summer.

Because of this, every game is like a final and after the win over the Clippers we will try to do the same against the Lakers.

It seems unbelievable to me how quickly the season has ended. Maybe it's the heavy schedule, the constant traveling and the games. If you think about it, this is where the fun starts, and of course I mean the play-offs (translator's note: typical V-Span...he absolutely loves and thrives on important games) where the teams' achievements are measured and we will try our best to do as well as possible to make our fans happy.

Now that I remembered, it's very pleasant that Panathinaikos, my old team, has been chosen to play exhibition games against the Houston Rockets and the San Antonio Spurs on 11-13th October. Panathinaikos was worth that distinction and I think it was unfair for Greek basketball that Athens was not in the list of cities that NBA teams visited last October.

Greece has very well organized teams with great history. Panathinaikos should play NBA teams in games like that, and Olympiakos and even Aris (translator's note: legendary Greek team that put Greek basketball on the map in the 80s, hasn't been doing that well last few years but has started to rise again lately). That's my opinion and I don't think many people would argue. NBA should make a stop at Greece too!

So, this is it for now. Once again I want to thank all of you for your e-mails that cheer me up and keep me company. Be well and we will speak again very soon...

Vassilis"


Move this to a separate thread if needed....

 

This deserves its own thread

 

ooooooooops..... Did it myself.. Apologies to everyone, hadn't realised I'd been moved up to member !!

Still relevant to this thread I guess due to the Kobe comments but can be removed if the moderators prefer it...

 

hopefully,rox win.
but when the thing goes to kobe,it's hard to say

 

I'm sure we will win
Yao 30+ pts
T-mac 10+ asts
Rox 102
Flaker 80

 

Clamp Kobe down! Batman put on the mask and show Kobe what is real defense. Own him. ROX win by large!!!!! 110-90!!

 

Who is Kobe?
T-Mac is a the most underrated defensive player in this league. If T-Mac tries defending somebody, he will be a nightmare of that unlucky guy. y-mAC will defend K24 in this game and shut that guy down IMO.
T-Mac 10-18, with 28pts and 15asts.
Yao with 43pts, a new career high, and 20rbs, 10blks, the 1st triple double in his career.
Kobe with 40pts, but 15-40.
120-100, rox win.

 

I hope T-mac a quintuple double(is it right? I do not know how to express it in English as I Chinese man)
20pts ,15asts, 10rbs, 10blks, 10steals

 

It looks like Spanoulis is gonna be playing in Europe next year at least according to his manager.

 

Span yet not fit rox now.

Maybe back to Europe is a good idea