Scola will score at least 15 points if u give him +30 minutes a night. I guess Adelman was tired of experimenting, so he gave all the starters except hayes +41 minutes on the court today. Today the team came out playing well and K.Mart finally meshed with the starting lineup because the lineup actually stayed consistent for the whole game.
Well Brooks is 25. I'm just saying, it happens a lot of time. Just look at all the bad contracts, these were once more than solid NBA players at a time. They hit their peak, and only one way to go from there. I don't think that for Brooks though, he can get better if his playmaking and decision making get better than yes, he's all-star caliber.
Well anything is possible, but like you said I think he has a lot of room for improvement, and has even shown many signs of improving throughout this season. By the way his points per game has been inching toward 20 lately and his overall FG% has been gradually going up!
Rockets' offensive trifecta tramples Spurs out of gate By Mike Monroe - Express-News HOUSTON — The disappointing finish to the Spurs' rodeo road trip seemed a distant memory after a big victory over Oklahoma City on Wednesday night, but when the team checked into its hotel on Thursday afternoon, the bellman wore a Stetson. The Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo had come to town, straight from San Antonio, for an 18-day run at the Reliant Center, and the spirit of everything equine and bovine continued to cast a gloomy spell over the Spurs. An injury-riddled Rockets team still adjusting to a big trade deadline deal had lost six of its previous seven games to fall to .500 on the season, but that didn't matter in a 109-104 Rockets victory Friday night at the Toyota Center. The Rockets (29-28) treated the Spurs (32-24) like a calf in the roping competition, tripping them up and tying them in a neat package on the way to a win that was offensively historic. For the first time in club history, three Rockets scored at least 30 points. For a franchise that had scorers such as Hakeem Olajuwon, Clyde Drexler, Moses Malone, Charles Barkley, Ralph Sampson, Calvin Murphy and Rudy Tomjanovich, the fact that Kevin Martin, Luis Scola and Aaron Brooks all went for 30 or more was nearly beyond belief. Martin, the key Rockets acquisition in the three-team trade Houston pulled off before the Feb. 18 deal deadline, had his best game for his new team, a 33-point explosion that included a busy, and perfect, night at the foul line. He made all 14 of his free throws. Scola, the Argentine power forward who finished with a career-high 30 points, plus 13 rebounds, also was perfect on 14 foul shots. Point guard Aaron Brooks got to the foul line only four times, but he, too was faultless. His 13 field goals, on 23 shots, gave him 31 points for the game. The historic significance was lost on Scola, concerned only with the outcome of the game. “The only thing is that we win,” he said. “At the end of the day that's what we care about. We've won a lot of games without that before, and if somebody has to score, then so be it.” “Credit to the Rockets,” said Spurs captain Tim Duncan. “They played really well. They had three guys with 30 points and two guys with 28 free throws. It's just hard to counter that, so a lot of credit to them.” Duncan and Manu Ginobili watched the entire fourth quarter from the bench as a unit composed mostly of reserves sliced a 23-point Rockets lead to three before running out of time to complete what would have been a remarkable comeback. “I thought our second crew did a great job of continuing to fight and trying to get back into it and making it a game,” Duncan said. “We take some positives from that, I guess.” Duncan said he thought he and Ginobili might have gone back in the game after a George Hill 3-point shot got the Spurs within nine, with 10:35 still to play. “I think maybe we were a shot or two from doing that,” Duncan said. “We got it to nine or 10, then we missed a three, got a stop and missed a two.” The Spurs played without point guard Tony Parker, suffering from food poisoning and staying at the team's hotel. In his stead, Hill moved over from his starting shooting guard spot and Michael Finley made just his sixth start of the season. Up front, coach Gregg Popovich went with Duncan, Antonio McDyess and Keith Bogans. It was the 20th starting lineup card Popovich submitted this season, and one he might want to fold, spindle and mutilate. By the end of a first period that produced only 14 points, Duncan was the only starter to have scored and the Rockets had a 17-point lead. McDyess, Finley and Bogans all went scoreless for the game. “They got on us early, very physical and aggressive, and we didn't react very well to that,” Popovich said. “We turned it over seven times in the first quarter and shot very poorly. They were really crisp and sharp in execution offensively, so it's a bad combination: bad team D, bad shooting and turnovers. They jumped out and got the lead, and that was basically the ball game.” http://www.mysanantonio.com/sports/s...t_of_gate.html
Does anyone know where 30-30-30 falls in NBA history? How man times has it been accomplished? If it was posted already, I'm sorry as I haven't read through the thread yet. Amazing night.
i dont know but i read on a site that the 1997 trailblazers did it. wonder why there's no mention of this as an NBA record.
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"I'm going to be fine," Brooks said. "I'm young. I don't have Deke's (Dikembe Mutombo's) legs so I'm all right." - Talking about fatigue lmao Brooks http://blogs.chron.com/nba/2010/02/rockets_109_spurs_104_martin_b.html
the big come back by the SPurs' reserves was expected with the starters playing most of the game. Any one else notice mid-way through the 4th when free throws were being shot and AB and Martin were standing next to each other...Martin said to him "i'm tired as sh**"..i rewinded through it a couple of times to be sure...and im like 99.9% sure that's what he said. RA went to the bench in the 2nd with Jefferies, but that scrub picked up 4 fouls in like 6 mins...
I'm proud of that team in the 90s but are you aware that it looks borderline pathetic to other people to be gripping onto the success of an entirely different generation? I want something a little more recent to be proud of. The best thing we have is the 22 win streak since then.
Yes,other people definitely make fun of us because of this. Only time can tell whether we can win again.
