He knows they wouldn't run him over. That's it. Rafer just had a good game. He and Chuck are satellites around Yao: one gets the ball to Yao and the other help grab rebounds. As long as Rick Adelman think Yao is important, these two are gonna stay as Rox.
Next time, please scream at Yao "Yao, can you do a f*cking hard foul instead of just being nice? It's f*cking NBA!". I'm tired of these 2 soft arses too.
Hah. This was supposed to be a no-hate zone. It wasn't my intention to bash, just to see who still had faith is all. I'm glad to see some people with perspective though. Even for all the shortcomings we've had the past four years with JVG and the last three with Tracy, I think it's wrong to say some people are just 'meant to lose'. Here's a good place for the Woody Allen Quote: Success in life is 5% talent and 95% showing up. All it takes is for the Rockets to Show Up, just once, and the entire culture revolving around our team can change in an instant. So don't ever give up!
The Rockets are 6-6 with a tough early schedule. They'll turn it around soon. It's an 82 game season and the players are still getting used to the system and to each other. Yao and Scola have picked up their play and TMac is always ready. The keys are to stay healthy and get the role players playing up to their potential. They'll be fine for now.
Nobody's jumping off the bandwagon, just fans including me frustrated with our team's play and really being realistic about what our team's chances are this year.
But see, I think that even "being realistic" is a gateway to the "we aren't passing the first round again" ideology. I think we will pass the first round this year. And pass the second round too.
I still think Rockets is the most talented team at the moment and it need some fine tuning only. The team need some time and adjustment to play like well-oiled machine. The fine tuning will need contributions from one of the most talented and experienced player Steve Francis. From time to time, Rockets also need to develop AB and Snyder skill. So when anyone is injured or need substitution, the team can still play well.
yep, the whole team has different personnels from the last year. however, the starting lineup is same. in all critical games, rox were not blown out by their opponents. they lost most times near the end of these games. do you know who were on the court near the end of these critical games? the starting lineup.
but at least tmac shows up in the playoffs and we see him. arod is a ghost literally. how the hell u gonna get bumped to the 8th spot in the playoffs?
i didn't watch yankees. i thought arod individually played pretty good in this season playoff. i know he didn't show up in the last season's playoff.
I think that's a huge myth. T-mac hasn't talked any trash at all in the playoffs, mostly because he's been the underdog in all of the match-ups but the last one. In last year's series, he said, "It's on me", and while it was a mistake to put so much pressure on himself, it certainly wasn't a knock on the other team that they could have used for motivation, not like Rasheed Wallace guaranteeing a victory or anything like that. 'It's on me' meant that he understood that the team would only go as far as he took them, but it also displayed our flaw last year in having an offense that so easily was reduced to a 2v5 + spotty outside shooting. Ever since T-mac and Yao have been together teams have gladly allowed the open 3 as opposed to letting us run our offense in any other manner, and the plan this year was to get some weapons that would force the hand of opponents to guard us differently. So far, no dice, but the competition has been way too difficult before we can start practicing our offense the way it needs to be. Has anyone looked at our SOS lately? On Hollinger's rankings, we're at .669, by far the hardest schedule of any team so far. Second place is Golden State at .588. That is unbelievable.
A proved offensive coach RA and the proved defensive coach JVG shared the the same blames from you that they overestimated Rafer's ability. What did this mean?
Consider the fact that A-Rod is 1/25th of his roster compared to T-mac being 1/12th of ours, if you did all the math I bet A-Rod's salary would interpolate into T-Mac earning like 40mill per year out of our 65mill payroll. That's how crippling A-Rod's contract is. It's mind-boggling that anyone would want that on a team where individuals have so little power compared to individuals in all the other major sports.
