http://www.nba.com/2009/news/powerrankings/01/26/week13/index.html Pace: 88.8 (21), Off: 109.3 (15), Def: 106.1 (5) Yao Ming bruised his knee in Indiana on Friday and missed Sunday's game in Detroit, but Tracy McGrady and Ron Artest returned to action just in time to help the Rockets to a three-point win over the Pistons. Yao shouldn't miss much more time, so we may actually see a healthy Rockets' roster this week. They've played two games with Yao, Artest, McGrady, Rafer Alston and Shane Battier all in uniform.
I just checked all 4 of them played that game. http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/boxscore?gameId=281223005
Technically they all played, but Yao was in foul trouble early on and never seemed to get going. It Would be nice to have all the guys on the court when the Cavs visit Houston!
After I posted and started looking at the numbers in the box score, it was like none of them played lol. Horrible numbers that game.
Rox moved the most up in the power rankings this week, and i expect them to move up more next week. it seems the 'storm' is ending, but it is still to early to say that we 'weathered the storm.'
The two games where they all played was against New Jersey and Cleveland I believe. They blew out the Nets on the road and lost a close yet poorly officiated game against Cleveland on the road. It just shows with all four of those guys in the lineup we have more than a puncher's chance to beat the elite teams of the league despite the poor spacing and motion in the offense.
If we're healthy come playoff time there is no doubt we are the best team in the league. Id like to see Tmac avg 15/g9 assists gm and facilitating the offense so we can get rafer off the floor and play major minutes with Tmac/battier/artest/scola/yao on the floor....good luck opposition with the shortest guy being 6'8.
i thought they all played just in one game this season, the game at cleveland...the NJ game i thought brooks started and played (maybe rafer came off the bench?) at least thats what i recall that there has only been one game so far if someone can let me know the other game besides the cleveland game i would appreciate it.