ClutchFans Game Thread: Rockets @ Timberwolves 2/4/2008

Which makes him just a mediocre player then right?? Why should this effect you in any way unless you want him to succeed right?

 

hmm? Actually let me start by saying 20-10 without Yao last year is a better record than what we ended up with him in the lineup. Ok, now so you are saying Mutombo and Howard (???) is equal to Yao and other perimeter players were not able to fill TMac's role? Of course Rockets player can't play TMac's role because he is TMac and Mutombo shouldnt be able to fill for Yao either!! You see how wrong you are? If Mutombo and Howard can fill for Yao and no one else could fill for Yao, doesnt that just prove my point that TMac is more important? sigh.. actually thanks for agreeing with me.

I don't know where we are getting the stagnancy in offense but all I know is we are winning since TMac has returned. I know we are 8-5 without him but have a much better record with him in the team.

 

one or two games after,trade TMAC.
another game after, trade YAO.
whats wrong with this froum. fans like you guys,not even deserve any of them, espeaical talking about trading after game won.

 

You have the wrong player. It's Alston. He is the MVP of the team. The whole team including Tracy goes into a shell when he misses due to injury or is ejected from a game.

 

Alright that's it! NOBODY MAKES ME BLEED MY OWN BLOOD!

 

Yes and as soon as one of those things happen the wounds of the rockets will be healed and we will be championship bound! STFU

 

AL Jefferson, Bosh, Amare, Bogut, Harrington, R.Wallace owned Yao EVERY TIME they face each other?

U must have that list in your head for 3 years, dreaming it every night and wut'd u know, woola~u finally have a chance to spit it out. congrate~man, that wasnt very healthy for u.

However, I do agree that Boozer seems owned Yao most of times. but the rest? hehe...well, wutever is good to your health

 

that "milf" is about 26 yrs old

 

i admit last year t-mac is more important than yao ,but this is apply to Rockets ,rockets' depth in the paint is enough ,have no depth in perimeter and you cant expect mutombo can fill for yao for whole season ,as for the story of this year ,i think you dont catch my meaning .you still overlook the ponderance ,last year ,yao to rockets is a obvious '+',this year ,t-mac is intergrating himself into the team ,you cant probe the difference ??

 

After a terrific show against the warriors, Yao has been isolated in the last three games. I admitted tmac played well against the bucks and the wolves, but this team is going to nowhere without interior dominance. Perimeter shooting guarantees nothing. The MM combo is not working and will never work. The dream existing in your head will soon be crushed. For the sake of the team, one of them has to go………………..

 

Put Scola and Landry on both sides of Yao and Yao will be open one on one. He'll dominate again or our 3 and 4 will make them pay.

 

YOF, TOF, who cares? That's garbage.

But as a Rockets fan there's a legitimate reason to be worried right now. The Rockets have played with zero energy the last three games, and the superstars don't look like they're meshing.

I will say this: in one sense it doesn't really matter if they mesh or not. They and the rest of the Rockets are going to have the rest of the season to practice playing together. Hopefully they can get it together at least to the point where nobody's talking about breaking up the core.

 

True, Tmac is the best passer, the best passer if the team plays the old system. In another thread RA has already admitted right now they are playing a hybrid system, and they go back to his motion offence only when Tmac was injured by necessity. Tmac essentially forces the team play his way, which is not necessarily bad, but Yao does not benefit from that style as much as when Tmac was out and the team plays a RA style bb.

Fact: when both were healthy playing the old style they couldn't get past one round of playoff. Fact: They could beat a good team for one or two games, but that stagnant offence can be easily neutralized when the opp teams show some adjustments, accounting for their playoff exits twice after 2-0 lead. Fact: Yao SUDDENLY played below his average when Tmac came back, for FOUR games. The bottomline is, how many games you see BOTH dominate.

There is no bashing on any player, but these two don't mesh well. They may work well together in some plays, but overall each of them requires a different system to function at his best. Tmac probably plays best in a faster-pace game, and the more I watch, the more I think Yao really fits a half-court based game running motion offence using him as a focus or decoy.

 

i think we could have advanced last yr if we had scola/landry at the PF position. hayes was just too much of a liability. remember, tmac and yao ALONE took them to 7 games.

 

Yeah, but that was last year. I'm pretty sure the Rockets could have kicked the Lakers' ass then too. Now they've got Bynum and Gasol.

This year's Utah team is not last year's Utah team. Have you been watching Kyle Korver play recently?

Yeah, the Rockets are getting better. But Utah is better too. So are the Lakers. You want to guess what Dallas is going to look like if they get Kidd? The point is that nobody's standing still.

 

uh kyle korver is easy to game plan for. when u have novak on the floor like we did when we faced them, um my grandma could have scored on novak. we can guard utah pretty well, even in the last matchup.

the lakers are a great team. but they're on paper. will bynum be healthy? how will he adjust to not getting the same touches? he's a young player and not getting touches might make him play with less intensity as has been in year's past. weren't we a great team on paper to start the yr and look what happened.

we're getting better, but tmac is not fully healthy. we're still in the process of figurin out a consistent rotation (which we're close to). we still are integrating tmac into the offense... we're a long ways to go offensively before we can click on all cylinders.

plus, our defense is better than theirs. we can slow them down enough to make it a 5 minute game. then it all comes down to execution. can this offense execute in big games?

the last 10 games show they can. but we'll see.

 

Rockets win!

can i get a hooray?

doom & gloom can wait. we're winning and its better than the alternative.

 

Honestly, if you had to handicap a Utah/Houston series how would you call it?

Yeah, I'd like it if the Rockets could win. But the rational part of my brain says that betting on the Rockets in a Utah series, or a Laker series, probably isn't a good use of my money. Maybe if the Rockets go on an absolute tear and sustain it for a month...

 

Yao will leave Huston in 1-2yr

Rockets will be a crappy team for 10-20yrs

enjoy

 

Agree that Rockets have to play better.. Having Cleveland on next game will be a good test to see how good we are.