Braggs has been a great addition to our bench. He looks good in his warmups. Claps when the Rockets score. And knows when the verterans need a towel. All in all, another good pickup by the Rockets.
The Rockets are active in going to Yao today, which is great to see. The only problem is that multiple times Yao lost position with Divac CLEARLY shoving him behind his back the whole time (another great refereeing job on Yao! Notes to refs: NOT EVERYONE HAS SHAQ'S STRENGTH TO WITHSTAND THE SHOVING! ) Anyways, Yao is laying super aggressive tonight, and his teammates are rewarding him with nice passes.
He was supposed to be practicing at TC today so if that went well then we will see him in Phoenix edit: Yao is playing VERY well
Wow... Yao's increased stamina, or the lack of a real Lakers center... i'll take a little of both, but Yao is still in there. This could be the longest stretch he's ever played to start a game.
WOW! Yao is on FIRE! He is WILLING (and I mean WILLIJNG) his way through the Lakers defense (or whatever little of it is there on the interior) and getting shots/blocks against them. I hope Yao keeps this up throughout the game, because that is where his bad stamina usually comes in as the game progresses.
How silly those Kobe lovers must be feeling now! I remember last year the Lakers Board was flaming big over Shaq V. Kobe which brings this to mind: where is that Charvo fellow always trying to sell that deal, Milm, Odom, Buttler for Yao!
I'm just too used to seeing the guards go to him for like 5 minutes, and then for some godforsaken reason, stop doing it. Well I see hes out of the game now, so that solves that. BTW, CLarence has 3 fouls already.
He may be emerging from his annual late March/early April slump. And don't discount the lack of back-to-backs for the Rockets. That gives them more time to recover from these nagging injuries.
