Finally the team begins to look like at Rudy T team.

This is a defining moment. Yes I know it is early but we have seen the full scale return of the dribble from Steve. We have seen the end of ball movement and player movement, all components that JVG was supposed to change and in fact started the season with. But we can see the fairly swift return of old faithful. While JVG called the team fragile last week, I am tending to ask if JVG is not the fragile one. If fragile is too strong, is stubborn a better word?

JVG was asked why is he not playing Amec and he said there is no room for a 3rd center. Crap! Who does he think we are? Fools?
When two PF's are out and you are playing one center at PF there is room for 3rd center or 2.5 centers, if you will. In this game and in the Suns game, we went with Braggs at center during certain times. Is Ame so poor a player? I do not think so; not when you have two offensively challenged players in Cato and Braggs even if you do not include Ming, who also seem to be challenged himself recently.

The rockets are last in the league is fga. That is because the team has decided to not fastbreak. Why? Maybe because the TO's were getting too high. So every possession is a walk up. I say forget about the TO's because today you had 25 TO's walking up the ball every time. In the early games we moved the ball and players and as an initial change in style you can expect some miscues but to go back to having the ball all possession long in SF's hands is like bringing back Rudy T to coach. While we were high in TO's we were getting many open shots all over the court. Now we are not and we are stubbornly trying to get Ming to deliver and that is not happening. Go back to early offense and get the ball out of SF's hands. Swing the ball and get some space for Ming and your penetrators and get the defense guessing instead of slowly bring up the ball and giving the defense its' best shot of stopping you.

Talking about stubborness, how many times would we have to see that Cato leaving his man was killing us in the Raptors game. It is not like Carter was killing us. The trapping worked with the suns with Marbury and it worked initially with the raptors but it was very stupid to keep on doing it. One would have thought that JVG would have had better plays for us late in the 4th Q and overtimes. Every morning you wake up Ming is 7-6 but what are you doing about that JVG, if we can, on the road, not get this 7-6 guy to deliver any points for us in the late 4th Q and overtime?