You couldn't be more wrong. First of all, basketball is all about match-ups. I don't care what the records and seeds said. GS matches up extremely well with Dallas. If Dallas beat GS in a 7-game series, THAT would be an upset. I had the Warriors winning in 6 games before the series started. I was correct. I recall us recently beating that Suns team you're referring to.
you may be right ... I believe we can beat GSW, as long as we make them play our game, and we finally step up to the plate. The physical play of Utah has been tough, especially for Yao. There's no doubt that small ball is challenging for us, and that fast guards drive Alston crazy. But, Nelson just had Dallas' number, and knew exactly how to play them, and GSW players played over their heads. Now they're confident, but if we play our half court game, we can win. I'm hoping San Antonio beats Phoenix. We match up well with San Antonio, although, we won't have homecourt. But, I believe we can beat them too, and then beat Detroit in the finals. ... It's possible ... ... I believe ... I believe ... I believe ... uhhhh ... come on guys, it's time to kick Utah's butt.
feeding Yao down low and punishing the gsws for going small on the boards...hitting 3s while defending and along with their zero defense, tmac driving...yes..roxs win.
LOL ur taking the warrior's we believe slogan... however im telling you if the rockets play the way they did in this series to next series and the warriors played with the same intensity that they owned the mavs with, dont expect easy runs. I live in the bay area and ppl here are all saying they rather meet up with rockets than jazz because: 1 jazz play better team ball, 2 if they can limit nowitzki to that type of slump, its similiar task to mcgrady. 3 rocket's role players... u know what they have to say about them and lastly they will run and gun like pheonix style with yao
The Warriors would not be an easy matchup for the Rockets, but they would not be the nightmare matchup that is the Phoenix Suns. Baron Davis is playing out of his mind, but he's on one leg now. McGrady could go off in that series, because as athletic as Golden State is, I don't see them handling a determined T-Mac. The biggest problem to me is that Golden State fronts Yao a la Phoenix, and the Rockets haven't found a good way to counter that in the past two seasons. Could we run with the Warriors? No. But IMO, we can keep them at our tempo. If we can do that to the Suns, we should be able to do that to the Warriors.
You can make that case. But not to get ahead of ourselves too much the bottom line is this.... We have homecourt for game 7. If we can win that game, finally get out of the first round... the team progresses, we get the monkey off Tmac's back and strangely enough get a bonus of having the HOME COURT in the 2nd round series ! If we started the season and said we would have this chance tonight to put that scenario in motion I think everyone would be jumping at that. There is so much at stake in the game tonight. I hope the team will rise to the occasision.
Yep. This is why the board's doom and gloom has cracked me up. On Thursday night, just hours after the Rockets loss, I had a big goofy grin on my face. Thursday was overall GOOD for the team. 2 weeks ago, if you were told that all you have to do is win a game 7 at home, and you'd have home-court advantage until the Western Conference Finals... you'd jump on that in a heartbeat. Fellas, our chances haven't looked this good in a long, long time.
