Lowry missing a lot of drive in layups. Brooks need to take more shots especially when he's wide open. He's such a good shooter. Barry should be yanked earlier. Can't nail wide open 3s and can't play D. Wafer should be smart about attacking. He gets blocked too easily. Yao lost confidence in the Jazz due to many losses to Utah in the series. Mentally, i feel like he's losing the advantage. The Jazz has got into his head. That's why he doesn't play with confidence. I hardly see him backing down and play physical. Team failed to use Yao more often...It's their better chance. Team committed too many silly turnovers. All of that and the team is still in the game. Not a bad loss at all i think.
The Jazz are almost impossible to beat in Utah. They also played exceptional defense tonight, better than I've ever seen Utah play. We just played like the average road team we are this season and they played like the unbeatable home team that they are. We're the 3rd best team in the Western Conference still, no worries.
Yeah and TMac lead us to two playoff series against the Jazz the past years. TMac would never have lead the Rockets past the Jazz.
With Carl Landry we were out rebounded by like 20 and still lost the game in Utah. Tmac is the only guy that doesn't fear this team. Everyone else just can't play against these guys for one reason or another. That's why we can beat the Spurs and Hornets in big games and everyone can play well...but the second we go to Utah we're playing like Goldenstate.
I don't think Von Wafer was the problem in this game. In first 3 quarters he made a few good passes after driving to the rim. But his teammates didn't make the hsot. Also, he was in good positions a few times, but his teammates just dribbled blindly to the rim got blocked. He's still young and immature, so he panicked in 4th quarter and made some mistakes. He has future (with Rockets or with other NBA teams). He's learning - passing the ball, trying to defent... For this loss, I blame Artest and Lowery. Even it was a loss, Battier was terrific - defending and scoring. I believe we can beat Jazz if we meet them in playoffs.
the jazz outskill us at every position. You have Brewer throwing down jams and Okur my god, is a guard in a 6'11 body. He's the most skilled, versatile big man in the league.
Why is it so hard for the Rockets players to pass the ball to Yao? If Artest continues to play uncontrolled ball in the playoffs, the Rockets are in for a nightmare in the playoffs. Can Mr. Adelman please please tell Artest to play smart during games. He sometimes plays like McGrady with some heart but with less scoring talent.
Your signature says you can't look at AB objectively. He was one shot below 50%, zero turnovers, and set up many wide open shots that lead to bricks. He actually played really well tonight, but somehow you want to put blame on him for not setting up the offense. The story tonight is Ron dominating the ball doing his best McGrady impression.
I think they should have Yao stand at the FT line whenever they want Artest to post up because when Yao is inside, it seems to clog up the lane and Artest has trouble driving it seems.
Why, why, why is everyone blaming the loss on a single person. Whether it be Artest, to Yao, or Brooks to lowry. EVERYONE LOST THIS GAME. The absolute worst shooting i have seen in a while along with the jazz's luck. No made jump shots and 3's only came when coming back, whether than going forward ahead. Louis Scola was the only great and consistant player tonight and Aaron Brooks did what he could to make MOST shots. DOnt single out any player, cuz this was a team effort to lose....
Look at what everyone else has done against the Jazz...Really...just look at it. It has been terrible. I'd like to believe we can but we can't, i'd like to be proven wrong but we have no shot without Tmac. Sad but true.
a terrible game all around. from the game plan to the execution. the only bright spot for us was battier played his best all-around game of the season. the pace of the game was way too fast for us to utilize our advantage in yao ming at the offensive end. our bench players wasted so many opportunities, even though we out-rebounded them by a wide margin and got so many offensive rebounds. i've said it a thousand times - yao needs to be established often and EARLY in the game. if he only scores 2pts in the 1st quarter, we're in trouble more often than not. our guards were too trigger-happy at the beginning of the game. ron played horrible on both ends. lowry had his first bad game as a rocket. wafer was near useless. kinda makes you miss landry. they've gotta realize that attacking the basket doesn't necessarily mean you have to jack up a shot so easily. you have to adjust to the officiating, too. when crawford and gangs are allowing a lot of body contact and are not calling fouls when you go to the basket, you should explore other means to score, such as more cutting and more ball movement. /rant that said, there's still a lot of bball left to play. this is just one of the games where we pay the cost of rolling the dice and playing young guns. they are smart players and they will learn. hopefully they can get a little practice in the next few days and we go from there. we still have a chance at #2, despite the lucky win by the spurs tonight.
Yao Ming: guarded Boozer ok (6-15), but didn't get his offense going. He is a rythm player, you have to get him touches for him to get into groove. Scola: Played OK, but didn't get many touches too. But he can't guard Okur. Artest: Whoever says he played all kinds of guards was right. AB: The only good thing is his points in the box score. Shane: The only bright spot. He scored, often forced by AB to, and he hustled as ussual. But he's not getting more athletic. Lowry: bad game, with missed layups and ill-advised quick shots Wafer: Do I need to say more?
we lose because Sloan >>>>> Adelman our players > Jazz players on the court, we see they have will ,they have ability, but all the time ,they don't know what to do to deal with Jazz's system on both defence and offence... to go further, we need a wiser captain!!!
I completely disagree with that. Aaron Brooks played very well. He led the team in points and shooting % (besides a couple of people who went 1-1 and Shane Battier who went 5-9). He was low in a assists mostly because the guy that he passed it to either passed up the open shot or just flat out missed it. The only part he lacked in was defense, but it's not like anybody else helped him in that category. He can't guard Deron Williams, we all know that... and Yao is still horrible on the pick and roll defense. Besides Shane (who finally stepped up tonight) Aaron was our best starter.
