OK, that is freaking strange. I literally just finished watching that. As in, the credits are rolling as I type this.
I don't know why everyone is so afraid of Dallas because of this one bad game... We have played pretty well against them lately, and they have recently taken some major steps backwards. I swear it's like whenever we lose to a team on the road, everyone's like "oh god, I hope we don't see them in the playoffs!", whether it's Utah or Dallas or whoever. Such BS... we would kill Dallas.
You can't just pick one thing here and there. You could go back to the San Anotonio game early in the year when we had big lead late in the 4th or another game but the bigger fact is the Rockets have been a mediocre team on the road all year. That is why they are sitting in the position they are in. Good teams don't play mediocre basketball on the road. If there was any team in the playoffs who needed homecourt advantage for two rounds to have a chance to advance, it was these Rockets. This Rockets team won't win a game in Portland. They are who they are - a bad road team.
If wafer was in there guarding he would at least try to block roys shot. Damn Tmac. But we wouldn't have been in the game without him so...
Stop revisiting the past and lets focus on fronting and stopping Brandon Roy. Force him to drive and collapse with Yao and PF.
I'll gladly admit being wrong and drop this forever, but where is this proof you speak of?! That's the point i'm making. How does one go about breaking down a play frame-by-frame like that? Is that something anybody can do or do you need advanced tools in order to do so? I don't recall you presenting any evidence of this other than you just agreeing with the NBA's statement that they got the call right. Maybe they did? The point is I just want to see some proof other than hearing this dubious "our sophisticated tools got it right, trust me" type crap that really proves nothing to me. I don't know. I read this board pretty religiously like most you yet I don't recall ever seeing hardcore evidence to back this up. Maybe I missed it? Maybe I missed the thread that backs up this frame-by-frame analysis more explicitly. Oh well. (I agree this needs to be dropped so don't feel obligated to respond. Just ranting....)
There's no way to know how one loss way back in the middle of the season impacted us. What I remember from that game is we played pretty poorly and didn't really deserve a win. Maybe if we won that game, it would have given us false confidence and hurt us in subsequent games.
