I am not to proud of this victory. Jazz were basically starting a tall Juwan Howard minus the veteran part, (the only part about him that is good) (Kosta) and backing him up with Tsakalidis (fesenko). Then playing Shane Battier(AK-flopper7) at the 4 and backing him up with a Steve Novak with no 3pt range, and is to old to even jump (harpring). We should have won by 10 with no overtimes, with Tmac by 20.
Last night's game exposed once again our lack of length in the front court. Yao needs frequent breather but RA does not have the luxury of giving Yao too many breaks. Morey needs to get at least one more 7 footer.
bottom line is...if we are to go anywhere in the playoffs this year we'll need tracy...the negativity in this tread is rediculous
We need a healthy T-Mac, not the zombie we've been getting the last few games. But it is most definitely true that we won't get far without Tmac against the elite teams. With a healthy Big 3, we're as good as anybody.
[NBA.com] article on the rockets and the jazz its talking abt how were playing without our catalyst http://www.nba.com/2008/news/features/art_garcia/12/28/jazz.rockets/index.html
Yao was so fatique maybe it's a back to back and played long minutes..The two new C from utah was just playing hard and seem that two will soon have a good minute in coming years. Utah may playing big too.. Hoping Dorsey have a good time in D league and coming back to make rockets bigger.
Every one is saying we need a healthy TMAC to go far in the playoffs, but forgetting that a healthy YAO is actually more important with the current make up of this team and how he is playing. YAO is playing TOO MANY MINUTES now, and its becuase we dont have a choice. This is how he developed stress fracture the past year. It is really a bother watching these games with the inside outside offense Adelman is running. It was supposed to be pretty with a lot of motion, it is just stagnant and its like pass to yao get out of the way, if he is doubled hit the 3. Reminds me of dream's days but Yao is NOT Dream. This is why he was tired in the 4th, it takes a lot out of you to bang with the whole world hanging on you for 48mins. Problem is the coach had no other plays to run, until artest too over, while UTAH were running the P&R to perfection. This game was not supposed to be close with UTAH missing to all star starters. I know our players have not been healthy, but this offensive was supposed to be predicated on movement and not on isolations, with is what is happening with Yao, TMAC and Artest. Its ok to do to it down the stretch when its winning time but not all through a game, it wears players out. With this strategy I dont know what this team will have left come May. I hope rockets figure out that Yao really needs some that can really back him up very quickly before he gets injured again. The magic of the 22 game winning streak was predicated on ball movement and defense. I look at the roxs current record and you would say 20-11 is not bad....but it is when you though you were really deep and the 3 premier team have 5 games ahead of you and you have been unable to beat anyone of them thus far. I know TMAC has a lot of people frustrated and disappointed because of his attitude, but a coach has to hold his players accountable and inspire the greatness in them, Adelman is not doing that with TMAC and it seems they are not on the same page. It might be time to look at a coach change, as another first round exist will be INEXCUSABLE!!!!
