Firsthand account from courtside, 5 rows from the rockets bench

I have to say I was very disappointed in tonight's game. This was my first ever live rockets game, and it had to rank as one of the worst, if not the worst, rockets game of this season. The whole team played as if they were going through the motions. Von Wafer was the only one that looked anything like a bright spot tonight. Basically, the rockets "gave up" after they caught up to within a few points, then it blew wide open.


The only bright spot for me was seeing Yao and Tmac in person. However, Yao was disappointing tonight, just missing shot after shot. The worst part of the game IMO, was when Yao got DEEP DEEP position, immediately passed it back out, got it back in a bit DEEPER position, then passed it out again. It got swung around and the shot missed. What's sad is that Yao looked pissed the F off, but never did anything about it like attack the basket using his size/strength advantages. Also, there were a couple times Yao could have dunked it, but instead lazily hooked it in. I have a feeling Yao isn't fully recovered yet from his injuries last year.

TMac looked like he was playing a YMCA game.

All in all, a disappointing first live rockets game for me.

I'll upload some pics later on if you guys want, but I don't think it's even worth it.

 

The huddles absolutely lacked ANY energy throughout the night. Ron Artest though seemed to show a lot of support during garbage time, standing up and clapping. I couldn't really hear anything because the place was really loud.


No pics of power dancers , my sis was in charge of the camera lol.

 

No, Deke wasn't there. I did see that at one point, Yao was checking out the dancers