ClutchFans Game Thread: Rockets @ Mavericks 5/7/2005 (Playoffs Round 1, Game 7)

I freakin' second that.

That original poster is a freakin' idiot and a freakin' idiot.

Listen to Doug Collins for God's sake: this is Dallas' role players badly outplaying ours.

Get a freakin' grip guys! T-MAc and Yao could have 30 each right now and we would still be losing.

 

im sorry guys but....GAME OVER. im really depressed right now i trully felt we would come out with a better sense of the situation and give it our all....we have not gave it our all tonight and that bothers me alot.

 

Wesley and sura must go. trade them for a real PG. go after Chandeler or swift. resign Deke, and get howard healthy.

 

Well......we have to shore up the four spot, and get some better perimeter defenders. We also need an extra punch off the bench apparently.

 

why can't we draft a guy like howard.

 

still got 17 minutes left.......

 

Wow, we were just not ready for this game. Terrible start and starting Padgett over Bowen was a huge mistake by JVG.

 

i can't swallow this....blowing those leads in game 3/4, missing the free throws in game 5...what should've/could've been

 

we have yao, deke, tmac, barry, and james. everyone else gets owned.

we need to just play our best players in the the 4th and hope for the best.

 

still 17 minutes left, I feel strangely confident. I'm seeing David Wesley hit the game winner with 20 seconds left in the 4th.

 

Off season: get a fugging PG and real PF

 

I think the Rockets lost the series when they choked away those leads at home in games three and four. Taking two on the road is all you can expect. Trying to take three on the road when you've got Padgett starting is too much to hope for. Good season for the guys. Can't complain. Too bad our guards played their worst games of the year all at once.

 

The problem with the Old Geezers we have on this team is that they Have NO championship nor playoff winning experience, which defeats the purpose of having veterans on your team.


With true veterans that have gone thru recent playoff battles they will never let a team in a decisive game 7 be steam rolled over like what the Mavs are doing to us in the 1st half. Case in put the careless turnovers and missing wide open shots that ass holes like Terry are sticking to us time and time again.

Do playoff savy veterans make such boneheaded mistakes, Like Barry's stupid Jordan ass moves during the past few games while he has someone right nxt to him for the pass, or the crazy ass 3's that he keeps jacking up after he missed his half a dozen? and what about those momentum killing turnovers these guys make, so bloody careless and stupid.

Guys like Gary payton or malone last year would never make such fundamental mistakes at this critical junction in a series nor at any time in the series. Our guards have been slapping the ball around with usless unforced turnovers that i question many of them whether they were Steve Francis Clones.

Only mike james has some decent experience to make the critical shots when we really need it as momentum stoppers.

JVG is probably the second or 3rd best defensive doctrine coach in the league and is probably appalled at that he's seeing on the court. It is not the defensive strategy that is killing us but the old age lack of quickness to implement JVG's defense.

To put this team in perspective, we only won two more bloody games in the postseason relative to last year's team. And last year we were playing the Lakers who eventually went to the championship finals. We were as well a hell of alot younger team than this year.
This crappy Mavs team will probably get bounced in the nxt series by Phoenix. Huge difference.
(I don't question the T-mac trade at all, but the job was not finished last year after his trade.)

So what does that really say,

Barry, Wesley, Sura, Padgett NEED to go!! We need to do another house cleaning and get the right players that WE WANT, NOt get players during the season as major patch work to cover up leaks (like what we done this season). If we want to go the Veteran route -again- we bloody need guys with recent Playoff experience if not it's another wasted year, and first round bounce.

Read my sig, I first posted those remarks early in the season October.

 

at this point I just want to see the equivalent of a beanball after a HR to know we've got some fire still

 

we were up 2-0 in this series. stupid refs and missed free throws and i guess just complacency screwed us over the next 3 games

this game we just weren't prepared..i think mentally...we just can't do it.

Tmac and Yao are fine. But wow Padgett wtf is up with you..and yeah Sura basically a nonfactor..he can't drive..he can't pass..he can't play defense..lol

they're in control. we can still come back maybe. but not likely.

 

Will I have to agree with you....

They actually play better with Deke at times than they do with Yao.

 

Just not ready this year. even if we get out first round

 

Someone on our team needs to get pissed and take one for the team . . . JVG - pull some energy out of your bag of tricks

 

nice move sura