It is time we stop blaming the Rockets. It was a great shot by ming, hope he continues Defence was not bad, they pushed the guy out all the way beyong the 3 point, logic has it that it is nearly impossible to hit it within 0.8 sec. Tracy did not go in, cuz if he fouls, 3 free throw is worse than a three point attempt, leave the team be, good bounce back at the last min, and hope they will do better.
I know Aldridge was abusing Scola but you can't leave Scola on the bench the whole 4th quarter. Atleast put Landry out there to give us some offensive firepower.
Adelman's fault. He just cant make good substitutions and plays. that's why he probably likes princeton offense. because it puts all the work on the players to read the defense and offense. it will only work if all of your players have high bb iq, and are in constant motion. if it works, he'd look like a genius. if it doesnt, the onus is on the players for not running the offense well enough. times like these is when you could have used a defensive pg like strawberry since tmac has no quickness at the moment. we need to get jvg back as a defensive consultant
Adelmans coach was pathetic. tmac could have finished the game during the regular minutes. he had the ball and was feeling it, then he calls a timeout. then there was the artest last shot fiasco incident. rick needs to have a good look at his coaching methods.
Scola needs to be on the bench. Aldridge was destroying him. Landry should start, scola and chuck off the bench
We lost because we got out rebounded! Yao came into this season slow on the rebounding end. This needs to be talked about by the Rockets coaching staff.
is anyone else annoyed by yahoo using "clutch city" to describe Portland?!?!?!?! Ok, that's offensive.
I still think they need time to get some chemistry ! One thng is for sure is that the defense has sucked !!
I agree, but give this game would have been over if TMAC did not come alive in the second half. Alderman is just not a good defensive coach. TT with Celtics would have been yelling to make sure TMAC did not loose Roy., Really Sad
CHuck Hayes = +4. Luis Scola = -8. Unless we score 100% of the time on the offensive end... you can't play catchup with the other team scoring at 55% of the time.
woah i just saw that assholes taking our thing...maybe they did it to mock us...ur right thats offensive
yao was absolutely horrendous for the second straight game. artest struggled offensively, but played some decent defense. t-mac really pulled us through offensively near the end of the game, but his defense is pathetic. it looked like he tripped up artest on roy's shot before yao's and was just terrible helping on roy at the end. i don't see how roy, their obvious go to guy gets such an open look in that situation. one positive thing is yao, struggling all night, hits his most important shot of the night and a huge free throw. he's proven time and again he can hit big free throws and shots at the end of the game.
