yep. that to me is the biggest problem tonight, because it looked like it was how adelman had game planed for. the pace/tempo of the game was terrible and that played right into the hands of the jazz.
he always lit up the jazz. wtf have you been watching in the playoffs the past two years? its always mcgrady's fault apparently. look up the rest of the rockets' stats. they somehow cannot make a shot.
Yeah I see your point because he scored 17 pts free throw 9 times, put up a kobish durant rookie/soph game reverse windmill against our great defense battier and artest... I will never call him scrub again. He is the stud!
Okay guys i'm not on the Tmac wagon, I still hope we trade him. All i'm saying is...we needed a guy like him to play under control and frustrate their defense. Who did the Jazz have to worry about tonight? Was there ONE guy on our team that Sloan said "Boy...we can't stop him." Nope instead the two guys that are supposed to be unstoppable for us were very stoppable. I don't know why, I don't understand why Yao and Artest can do so horribly against the Jazz...only thing I know is Tmac hated the Jazz...and with his Hatred he did everything in HIS power to beat the Jazz. So in the end...This is all Tracy's fault
I agree with this statement, although just because the game is easy to Tmac, doesn't mean he's lazy...but he does know how to play team ball, and he was smart enough to realize that Yao is the guy who can score for us and get the rest of the team wide open shots. He also knew how to run a pick and roll with Yao as well, and he was also a nightmare of a matchup for the Jazz. I would much rather see a 50% Tmac on one leg play offensively instead of Artest, who just tries to do too much by himself, when he really doesn't have the skill to do so. If he would post up more, I wouldn't mind so much, but he just jacks up 3's. Even if he makes them, I still cringe, because they are just awful shots he's taking!! Atleast a 50% Tmac will know when its not his night, and will penetrate and dish or just get Yao a good post entry pass...
lets just forget about tmac, the guy is done, had microfracture surgury a month ago he's not gonna come here and bail the rockets out again the jazz. Oh and if the past 3 seasons are any indication that he is the savior against jazz
I think Tmac helps us against the Jazz tremendously...but we tried the one-legged Tmac thing this season...it didn't work
Yeah and i'm sure you hear more about Lebron james, kobe bryant, and Carmelo Anthony than you do about Kyle Lowry, Luke Walton, and Jason Kapono...... If you follow basketball closer than what's on sportscenter and the local paper, you'd know Brewer's points are down because Boozer came back and Millsap is getting more minutes than he usually does as a backup since he played so well with boozer gone. When Boozer was out Brwer had a lot of good games. I'm not even sure who bases a player's skills on THREE games?!? Ronnie is probably a career 13ppg scorer and he averaged about 16-18 with boozer out. He'd probably average 20ppg if he got almost 40 mins a game.
It bears pointing out he scored 40 points en route to a first round exit. Not exactly a ringing endorsement.
Alright I understand Ron had a rough night but for some of you to say you would rather have a 50% T-mac out there is just plain out pathetic,wrong, or forgot what at 50% T-mac looked like earlier this year. Where exactly did this injured T-mac get us earlier in the year?
yaa, I know, but just as far as bball IQ, it would help offensively. Defensively, ya Tmac was horrible this year, cuz he was obviously hurt. But Ron's lack of bball IQ is just amazing in the wrong way...
LEt's ALL BLAME ARTEST!! Let's ignore his 11 rebounds and 7 assist. Let's ignore Wafer's uncontrollable running and stat-padding. Let's ignore Wafer's 7 shot attempts in 12 minutes and 2 turnovers. Let's ignore Brent Barrys 0-3, Lowry's 0-6, 2turnovers, and Yao's 6-16. Artest didn't play well tonight. But is not the main reason, at least, not the only reason we lost. The Rockets played well until they let Lowry and Wafer run the show, a show that included ridiculous running, turnovers, missed layups, and Utah's adding to the lead.
if you follow bball that closely then you should know millsaps minutes went down when boozer came back.
If we could have gotten 6-8 points from Landry off the bench, that might have diverted their defense enough to allow someone else to get another 2-4 points, allowing us to possibly sneak away with a victory. Pure speculation but yeah, we missed Landry, our bench of horrible and Artest had one of his bad shooting nights. We split the season series and pray that we don't meet them in the first round again. Time to move on to the next match up.
I dont think Sloan would have him taking jumpers. Boozer can easily draw fouls on Yao, it would be stupid on their part not to go after him. They're gonna try and keep him in foul trouble the whole game by going at him early, the series is theirs to lose if they do that.
