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Why the AB hate?? He shot poorly, but did other things well, especially in the 4th. Big bucket after coming back in off the bench, and 2 hockey assists on the Scola buckets.... But I am sure the Spurs will allow the NBA to take AB's points off the board, final score San Antonio 85, Houston 82.
Makes you overall happy with the way this team is constructed. Used to be we needed Yao and TMac to have good games, then against good teams one more player to step up with 15 or so. The team is so well balanced that they dont need monster games from anyone to win. But if you get it from a couple, get out of the way!
wow what a game! Got back a few hours ago from the game. Longest drive back to Austin btw. A few observations from the game: 1.The AT&T Center is just garbage compared to the Toyota Center. 2. glad to see lots of rockets fans in the crowd. 3. Bill Worrel was excited after game. He had a huge smile and was saying that this win was really impressive on a lot of levels. 4. Brent Berry is still well loved by the Spurs fans. 5. A few spurs fans next to me think Artest is a "dirty" player and Bowen is as clean as a player can get. lol 6. the game it self had a playoff game 7 feel without a doubt. 7. Artest did a great job carrying the load for the most part, but needed to pass the ball some times as well. 8. Chuck Hayes had great D when he was in the game. 9. AB seemed a bit rushed when he was shooting. It almost seemed like he did not want to take the shot. im so glad the rox won.... it was nice to shut up the spurs fans around me.
anyone notice Lowry's defense on the last posession, and how he fell into duncan to help box him out. excellent.
Scola just updated his blog after the Spurs game. He is really proud of this team. Go Rockets! Link First of all, hello everybody in China. I'm really happy to be here again with you guys. It's a great day today. We beat San Antonio here in San Antonio. It's a game that gave us first position in our division. It's a huge team win for us. So we are really happy. Yao found me in our last 2 possessions. And I got the chance to score. It is not suprising. Because he is a good passer. It is on Yao. He got the ball and everybody went to him. It was really easy for me to score, just because he caught so much attention. I'm really happy. Ron played well too. Everybody had good games. Hopefully we can talk soon about another victory. Luis
His (Your?) production today was negative. He ole'd Udoka for 9 points in a row. That's worse than using pom poms on the bench. Boy (you) better learn to box out and play some D, otherwise it's 100% pine time in the playoffs.
Didn't do much himself, but let his man go off for 9 points in a row and get 3 offensive boards in about a 3 or 4 min span. That's an F. Almost cost us the game.
Who was that? Udoka? I couldn't remember who Wafer was guarding. I'd like to see how other members grade our team this game.
Best game the Rockets played all season... awesome plays down the stretch... Ron Artest didn't do headless chicken move down the stretch, esp in crunch time. He played team ball in crunch time and we won. if we had to pick a negative, it'd be Aaron Brooks and him chucking up shots. That one he chucked up in the final few minutes looked real ugly.
Watching the replay of the game, and it does appear Udoka was Wafer's man on D alot, especially in the 4th. In that case, yeah grade = D. Udoka had a big game at the expense of Wafer not paying attention on defense. Wafer did make a steal and a drive and dish to Hayes for a layup.
