ClutchFans Game Thread: Rockets @ Lakers 4/17/2004 (Playoffs Round 1, Game 1)

that ****ing blows. the lakers win the god damn game because kobe misses so bad it falls into shaqs hand, and the most important shot of the year by JJ he can't sink.

 

tough loss BUT we showed we can handle playoff pressure against a TOP team...

it's a new game on Monday. Go Rox.

 

Like I said, Rockets won't get past the lakers. It's fate.

The Spurs will win out 4-2 against Lakers in the second round.

 

I quite agree - like our chances.

 

Or their spirit will be crushed and they'll lose all their confidence. I'm HOPING that won't happen, but this was a crushing loss.

 

ouch that hurt!

but im proud of the way this team played.. with HEART!

im excited about this series.

J

 

I am thinking we put some mad scares into the Lakers though.. the only good game of the day, and we ALMOST won.

Monday night, it is on...

GO ROCKETS!

 

The Rockets could have won the game if the starting backcourt had not turned the ball over 14 f**king times.

 

Yeah even if the Lakers advance past the Rockets, the Spurs will eat them alive. They're hurt, and they don't look that tough. Granted we were going hack a shaq a lot of the game, for the most part they got the brunt of the FT advantage.

 

Now that we got those playoff jitters out lets blow them out next game....

All i know is next game wont be close....

either them or us will win big

Us because are jitters are gone and confidence is up.

Them because we lose that fire we had tonight

We need this split in LA

 

Series is over. We missed our one chance to actually prove we could play in the playoffs. We don't do the little things. The lakers had eleventy billion free throws, and we can't ****ing get in position for a defensive board with 15 seconds left in the game? If Yao gets that board we WIN THE GAME, without a doubt.

 

Proud of the defense. Our offense sucked badly. JJ is no Mario Elie. He measured the shot. Tough loss. It was ours for the taking.

 

I HAS TO HIT THE BOARD!!!

 

The series is over.

 

we still have one more game to try to get home court advantage. I won't be totally worried until we leave LA 0-2.

 

GREAT GAME, GREAT REFS!!! GREAT OVERALL minus the win, but now we get some RESPECT!!!!!

 

huh? ok

 

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!! ****!

COME ON YAO! COME ON! REBOUND, AND IF U DON'T DO THAT, HOLD SHAQ'S DAMN ARMS, IS IT SO HARD???? AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

 

i don't think the series is over by any means... it was a good game, we fought hard.. had we made some crucial free throws or executed better int he frist quarter, we would have had this one.. anyhow, we can hang with the fakers, and i am confident that we beat them monday night.. some of their key guys got banged up in this game..

we still proved me could play in the playoffs. best game of the day..

 

I don't think it was crushing. Tough loss, but they should be proud of themselves. They basically shot themselves in the foot the whole night with all the unforced turnovers yet they' were right in the game til the very end. Had Kobe's airball come up a little more short, it might've been a Yao board to close out the game instead of a Shaq put back to give them the lead.