My analysis: Subtract Yao/Mac and we lose to the second best team in the league. Great effort though. Props to Rafer for keeping us in it.
Nice effort by the Rockets. One question though why can't we gurad Raja Bell? The guy killed us all night and we never made an adjustment to stop him. If you have to face guard the guy without the ball. Oh well, they didn't lose by 30 like everyone thought.
It just sucks that all these teams are feasting on us cause we are w/out our big two !!!! I can't wait to play these teams again fair and square with all our players.....
I'll copy and paste what I just posted in the game thread: I'm getting tired of Lucas rushing shots, instead of setting things up for others. At about the 2:30 mark, when we still had a chance, we race down the court and the chump immediately tosses up a trey. Of course, he doesn't make it. At that point, they could have set up a high % shot, keeping close, and who knows? Damn stupid thing for him to do. I don't mind him taking shots within the offense, but that crap has to stop. He's supposed to be a point.
I think Dallas and Phoenix can be beaten. If we have all our players healthy, I like our chances. JVG needs to give minutes to Bonzi and get him in game shape. He really can make the difference.
those shots at the end were not good shots, mostly contested, and nothing down low in the block. yao needs to get well soon
If we were leading them by 15 in first half, there is no reason we couldnt have won the game. Just like JVG always says, each team in the NBA is a quality opponent and can win on any given night. Yeah, even our scrubs. We had more motivation and desire to win, especially the role players since they let T-Mac down last night. I'm depressed we dropped 2 in a row even though it was to the 2 best teams in the league. We could have won both of them.
lucas 3-13 howard 2-10 this is the only reason why we lost howard's isn't so bad but lucas's came at the end of the game when it counted should not have been in the game
This game is great for the team in case we could match up this opponent at the playoff. At least JVG could learn some what he could do and what he could not do with this team. Major prop to Rafer and Battier, and we need Bonzi to shape if we keep him. JLIII is still inexperienced for this team. Why not try Novak?
i think all of us feel confident awith yao and tmac, but it isn't like they will give it to th rox... it will be damn hard series if we play any of them
I think we started rushing our shots and Phoenix took advantage of it. I noticed Phoenix is vulnerable when you atack to them and keep them defending for the whole 24 secs. If you rush the shoots, they are hard to keep up because they move the ball up the court and pretty much everybody make shoots when they get enough space.
If he made it, everyone would be like START JLIII OVER ALSTON!!! Who really gives a flying **** about the results of this game. We dont have our two best players!
To the guy who said that VSpan is over rated and a waste of a roster spot. What are you talking about. He has not been given minutes to make a statement like that.
