Your definitely right about these posters, which I've come to read a lot of before I signed up, some of you guys should become politicians with your talents, at least they'll be put to good use. What's a disappointing is another 4th quarter collapse, no ball movement, awful spacing, no penetration, and not getting yao the ball towards the end. This was a game you should have won (17 pt lead) heading into the 4th, a chance to inch closer to SA for the division or the number 3 spot, and in the end, not beating teams your suppose to. You never want to point at games and say yea, if only we would have won this one. Go Rockets!!!
agree to all - particularly that one. also, if you can't score a field goal, at least draw some fouls. and like your last statement.
Agree wholeheartedly! I do wish Adelman had tried Battier on Rose, or stuck with Lowry down the stretch. Rose is a beast. I felt sorry for Aaron, stuck in such a mismatch. Was Lowry hurt? He had to give a foul to get out of the game at one point in the first half-- and he'd been playing very well. Other worries: has Brent Barry lost it, or was he drunk tonight? And Ron, please don't snap.
Oright, so now a player must LOOK angry to be in fact angry. "Oh, no, absolutely not, because when he cries on a press conference, means he's a p***y, didn't know that?" Instead do this theater, Artest could have played with more intelligence and less ego, and maybe we would have won it.
Aretest did the same thing as T - mac did before, that is , shoot all 3's and being selfish at the end. I remeber he blamed Mac because it a mouth ago
If you have not watch the game, just shut up. This is not the front Yao problem. AB even did not know how to pass the ball to other persons. He just dribble the ball and waste time Finally turn over or miss a shoot. On defensive side he can not do anything. Of cause Coach Aldeman should be blamed more because of his stupid rotation and slow reaction to fix it.
They need to let Yao do some high screens and back-side picks as a misdirection to get him the ball. If they don't have it, they should let Scola post up. He's fairly effective and if they're still fronting Yao, cutters should have free rein without Yao's guy down low.
3 different coaches: Rudy T, JVG and Adelman Half a dozen PG: Francis, Sura, James, Rafer, Brooks and Lowry 2 different all-star wing players: T-mac and Artest Yet the team cannot beat the fronting and collapsed in the fourth. The one common factor remain all these years are YAO MING! So is it the coaching problem when teams fronted yao and we lost not once not twice but 30-40 times? Do you guys think elite PG like Paul and Nash really can solve this problem? Is our problem to the fronting Yao himself because he is too one dimensional?
Seriously, what did you guys expect for us to go undefeated the rest of the season? Yea, this was a tough one to swallow as I was looking forward to cut SA's lead and/or get the 3rd spot but we have to work with what we got. Go Rockets.
Before the game started, in the game thread, I was about to post this, but then I decided against this because I thought I was going to get burned for it: If the Magic beat the Sixers, Rockets will lose to the Bulls. If the Magic lose to the Sixers, Rockets will beat the Bulls. I figured that it would be an improbability that there would be two upsets in one night, and because the Magic were losing the whole game, I figured the Rockets had their game the bag. Then the Magic made a run and outscored the Sixers by 15 points in the 4th to win, and the Bulls made a run and outscored the Rockets by 20 points to win. Ain't that a b***.
your negativity is unbelievable. no teams, other than dumar's detroit team, will go into a complete "rebuild" mode when they are in the playoffs and have home court. and how can you be so sure right now that we won't be able to get the #2 or #3 seed? do you have a crystal ball? you almost sound like a troll.
the problem with Rockets is they still didn't figure out who is/should be the leader. Sometimes it seems to be Yao and other times Artest and even Alston (before he was traded) claimed they are the leaders. This team just lacks identity. I don't blame Artest for this since he really thinks he is the best player in the world (according to Miller), but it would be unacceptable that the coach and other players think this way. I love his toughness on both ends but I know he has never been a unselfish player. How many times have we seen a collapse in the 4th quarter when Yao was fronted? I can't believe after about 3/4 season they still didn't figure out how to beat the fronting. If this fronting Yao can never be solved, trade him and rebuild around Artest (or whoever you can name) because this team is going nowhere with Yao being a non-factor down the stretch.
