how can you have us losing to the Magic TWICE !?!?! (no way Tmac lets that happen)... SF3 just lost his buddy, he might be mad for a quarter or 2 but after that, he usually losses steam
I don't know, I didn't think too in-depth, just a surface-ish look at the teams... and as I was going down the list, that's the leaning I got. My thinking was that Houston doesn't like run and gun teams... but I guess thats not true with last nights game. Stuart
I am leaning more toward us winning both and maybe losing a different game or 2. the reason, (1) Tmac hasn't had a chance to explode on Orlando - since he sat out the pre-season - and the first game is there so that might be the one we get his best game (2) by the time SF3 gets to Houston to return the favor - he will have already played the Rockets twice (getting his "anger" out of his system) and if he still feels slighted over his buddy Cat getting traded, his heart may not be in it very long (especially if Rocket fans chear for him in the opening)
I always though holding the starters out of that game was a smart move by Van Gundy. I can't wait to see what TMac does in his first game vs. Weisbrod's boys in Orlando, with his whole family and hometown in attendance. You could really tell he was pissed about not playing in that preseason game.
Yeah, the way Orlando has been playing lately and with cuttino gone, messing up their chemistry for the next several games, I am now thinking that they'll pull out at least one win.. but it depends on which Houston team shows up. With T-Mac and Stevie both wanting to get back at their former teams, I think T-Mac is much more a different maker when both on their game. Who knows, I thought we;d have a MUCH better showing against NJ too... so... Stuart
5-2 now... then Grizzlies - L PAcers - w Magic - w Knicks - w Magics - w Hornets - w Kings - L Heat - L Celtics - W GO!ROX! GO!
If Rockets can win 11over 16 games in toughest schedule this month, we should belong to top 4 in west.
A tough stretch coming up this week. 4 games in 5 days. I will be very happy if we go 3-1 in that stretch. I think we can beat the Grizz but coming back on no rest i feel we will lose to the Pacers. T-mac will destroy the magic in orlando and it will be pay back time against the knicks.
Rockets January record: 10-6 for .625 January Prediction Results: Rocket River, Sir Geving - you picked nine games correctly (excluding Utah), and you accurately predicted the month record as 10-6. rhester - you accurately predicted the month record as 10-6. baller4life315 - Wrong. We lost to PHX (good spirit, though!) pasox2 - ".455" Rox did better than your prediction and did not meet your prediction of losing one of the ORL games. Jerry36, emjohn - you both picked nine games correctly (excluding utah), but were wrong about our month record being 6-10 Man - Wrong, wrong. We lost to both the Heat and the Kings (though we almost beat the Kings). you were close with your prediction of 11-5. emjohn - you picked nine games correctly (excluding utah), but were wrong about our month record being 6-10 Old Man Rock - you were wrong about Jeff Van Dummy leading us to 6-10. edc - Feigen's prediction of 7-9 was off. Deuce - you said Rox would be around 7-9 or 8-8. Rocks did better! smoothie, daoshi, Jeff, RocektFire - Rox did better than 9-7! DaDakota - you said 16-0.. well, we missed that a little, but I like your spirit. 12345 - prediction of 13-3. Optimistic, but not accurate. KaiSeR SoZe - your prediction of 7-9 or 6-10 was off. We finished better than .500, so that's something to feel good about. isoman2kx - agh - ya shouldn't have deviated from Rocket River's picks. rockbox, kh0001, fa7999 - we won better than half of 'em. Woo hoo! SmeggySmeg, franchise23, rm365 - you (sorta) got the month record right at 10-6 StupidMoniker - "15-1 with the Knicks completing the sweep." - way off. Cut back on the crack. droxford (me) - I picked nine games correctly (excluding Utah), but did not accurately predict the month record as 10-6 (my pick was 11-5: wrong. Damn.. if we'd have beat Kings, I woulda won this! Foul C-Webb, dammit!). sabonis - sorry, but your prediction came a little to late (5 games) into the month. (and you also said we'd lose to the Magic twice... so ... no soup for you!) and the winner is... Rocket River For accurately predicting the month record and for correclty picking the most games. -- droxford
Yeah, and he started the thread, little too much of a coincidence don't cha think? He also doesn't pass to Yao Ming. Stuart
He missed the Indy game. What's amazing about that prediction, anybody on this board with 2 posts could predict that. Let alone missing one.
