Post-Game Analysis: Rockets 98, Thunder 96

as ugly as it's been this season that's the perfect attitude to have.

 

We put either Artest or Battier on Durant tonight and we win easy.

 

QFT. Yao has been getting the crap beat out of him on a consistent basis. And like you mentioned, has been penalized for his size.

There was an obvious bias towards Yao today, and it was blatantly obvious the refs werent gonna give Yao the calls he deserved.

 

If the second unit had played the whole game this would have been a blowout.

 

yao with an aweful game. 6 turnovers. he did try to dunk it in the second quarter, which is good, but the rim kept getting in the way.

 

Man we've played 4-5 more games than some teams in our conference.

 

The Thunder did a lot of chucking, Durant did a lot of Chucking. Things may have been different if one of our elite defenders were present.

 

26 of the next 44 games will be played at home.

 

Good to see Tmac break out of his funk. Hopefully this is a turning point for an ailing Rockets team. I'll chalk up Yao's performance to fatigue from the road trip. I expect him to be back on track for the second game of the home stand (tommorows game could be rough for him). Rafer is god awful, only good thing about him in tonights game was it was one game closer to his last as a Rocket.

 

How much worse can Rafer play?????

Geez.

 

The mystery that is Yao. Good game against the Celtics and then a bad game against the Thunder.

 

Nice to get the W. My only problem that I see with the offense is when TMac plays it reverts back to the **** offense of JVG, where TMac needs Yao to set that dumb high screen. Yao should be wasting energy setting picks way up high. The D is not that great. When Artest plays the D has more energy players talking more. The offense is through Yao and seems more fluent. What say you?

 

Yao made some critical shots and FTs when the game on the line. That's all he could do with the way refs treated him.

 

Can we start Brooks?
Rafer + Tmac + Yao = old ugly rockets game.

 

opps Yao should not be wasting his energy setting high screens I meant to type.

 

we've had too many losses that should have been wins but considering our schedule and our injuries, i think jvg is right on the money in that our record is actually overachieving. If somehow everyone comes back in this span, our offseason hopes could still be inline.

 

Frankly speaking, the refs of this match are basically unbiased. The only reason we won this game because we got more chances on penalty line and relatively less turnovers if you take a close look at the statistics. In term of field shooting percentage, bounds, and assists, we were totally topped by opponent.

 

Now we wait if this version of McGrady stays for more than a week.

 

And we can still get that 2nd seed, no one is really running away in the west but maybe the Lakers.

 

This version of McGrady is not good enough (whats with the last possession) ... but hopefully he can get better.