t-mac played well, but i would like to see him move without the ball - he does stand there a bit too much for my liking. But he definitely played the roll of playmaker and tried to help his teammates. His explosiveness is not there though...clearly still doesn't have the elevation.
isn't a technical four for talking to the other team's bench? Rasheed never got a T =(. If mt mutombo gets a technical for waving the finger at the bench, then rasheed should too. oh yea, great game.
if you want to be specific and not just pinpoint at rafer and tracy, who got you that big lead, ron artest also had "what the hell" moments when he had 3 straight bad shots in that sequence also.
Need to get Wafer more minutes. He played just a little over 14 minutes and scored 10 points. Brooks is in a funk, he ended up a team low -12 and caused Rafer to play over 39 minutes.
great game by scola and artest. I think alston was playing really well until the last minutes when he took some ill advised shots. I mean, with Scola shooting a really high % during the game, Artest and Tmac on the field, he should consider himself the last option to shoot. Anyway, 10 assist, no turnovers, must handed out to the guy for a solid night. I think T-Mac scored the last basket for the team, when he took it inside in that multi-offensive rebounds posession. overall, great shooting game, lots of ball movement. defense should be something to put a lot of work on, maybe try some Deke for a few minutes. a win is a win, so I'll take it, good to have the two wings back, now lets hope the big guy can return quickly so we get all the players back together
Tmac is still slow as hell. He got blocked on almost every possession in the final minutes of the game until he finally was FORCED to take it to the rack. He looked very scared when he did drive to the basket and shocked that he made it.
Happy for the win, but way too much perimeter shooting. I want to see the ball movement and points in the paint that we saw the last two weeks. Also, that woman announcer was really good. She seemed to know alot about the Rockets.
Great to see a win, however, Von Wafer deserved more time on the court. When he was in the line-up without McGrady, the Rockets were rolling. The lead was solid and we were scoring easily. As soon as McGrady came into the game everyone seemed to get stupid. They stood around while he stood there with the ball or he he would try to set up a one pass offense or jack up a jump shot. If I was Adelman I would have been pulling my hair out and screaming "MOVE..THE..BALL MOTHER F---ER !!!" McGrady does not understand Adelman's offense and the best person to trade him for is Rip Hamilton. Rip was AWESOME tonight. He plays exactly the way we need McGrady to. Please God, make a trade happen. PLEASE!!!!! I am so sick of McGrady!
and prince is still an elite defender. notice they stick prince on him the entire game so obviously the pistons still respected tracy. it's not gonna be easy to come back and explode v. a great defender. 6-13, 15 pts, 4 boards, 4 dimes was a pretty good game. he'll get better.
I think we need Barry to backup Rafer more. Rafer is more efficient when he plays under 35 minutes. Barry's playmaking is very underrated imo.
Um, did you see any energy from TSlack? He made basically made one drive and held the ball in the second half. Also, it would be good if he played some D now and then.
Shane made some big plays tonight with the tap back. He had a extra bounce in his step. Tracy is still rusty, rafer was solid, scola played very well, wafer made some shots, brooks look shot as far as confidence and I don't know why the hell adelman played hayes at all.
Yeah, we need more from AB. He kinda got abused tonight and didn't respond on the other end. Hope he gets his mojo back soon...we're gonna need it.
sheed is a thug and thats why we didnt take him and chauncy for tmac.....secondly I dont see why we would want yao to come back tomorrow vs a run and gun team with his knee hurting, I think Yao gets the night off tom too bc new york has no real inside threat
I'm glad hes back but he was +17 before he came in when they blew the lead...the iso stuff just killed the offense. However I guess that may not be Mac's fault as it's probably an idea by Rick 'The Choke' Adelman. The guys plays and rotations late in game confuse the mind. Wafer was getting to the basket with ease and he gets taken out?
