This is for those of you who can not watch or listen to the game: Overall game play is very sloppy Moochie left the game early with a broken or dislocated finger. Griffin has 4 or 5 blocks and has had some nice rebounds. Taylor looked hobbled coming up and down the court. Genoboli looks like a spaz out there. Tierre Brown is trying to hard I think to impressive the coaches instead of settling down and playing fundamentally sound basketball. Duncan looks bored. And Nachbar is finally in the game.
Walker was walkin' when he moved his pivot foot in the first quarter and refs didnt call it!!! got me mad lol did any1 see it? cuz i am going to watch the game at 12 midnight cuz im bored
Boki clanged every shot. However, I'm glad he got his feet wet. I still am confident he will be an integral part of the Rockets' mix.
http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/recap?gameId=221015010 Houston 96, San Antonio 93 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- RECAP | BOX SCORE HOUSTON (AP) _ Cuttino Mobley scored 18 of his 22 points in the second half to lead the Houston Rockets to a 96-93 victory over the San Antonio Spurs in a preseason game Tuesday night. Kenny Thomas had 13 points, Terence Morris 12 and Glen Rice and Maurice Taylor 10 each for the Rockets (2-0). San Antonio (2-2) was led by Tony Parker with 15 points, followed by Tim Duncan with 14 and Stephen Jackson with 13. Houston led 62-61 with 5:37 left in the third period. Mobley then scored nine of Houston's next 16 points to boost the Rockets to a 78-69 advantage at the end of the quarter. A 3-point shot by Jackson cut the Houston lead to 91-89 with 1:40 left, but a 3-point shot by Taylor and a basket by Mobley gave Houston a 96-91 edge with 1:03 left and secured the victory. Houston took a 20-14 lead with 5:05 left in the first period after outscoring the Spurs 13-2. The Rockets led 30-24 going into the second quarter. The Rockets opened an 11-point lead midway through the second quarter after scoring 11 straight, six by Oscar Torres, to make it 50-39. Houston held a 54-48 advantage at the half. Houston's Moochie Norris dislocated the little finger on his right hand in the first quarter and did not return.
Well considering that Rudy only plays guys who perform in practice and Langhi never saw the light of day during actual games, I would have to conclude that Langhi did not shoot as well one might think. Boki hustles, rebounds, and plays defense. Those are things that are unknown to Langhi.
Not sure if anyone has noticed this yet, but if Mo's added range out to the three point line, that would be a huge plus.
mo t - looked very good bodywise out there, actually he looks the same as when he got here but apparently lighter. i didn't see him hobble at all so i don't know where that came from. very good first game, hit a couple beautiful jumpers. i'd like to see if he still has the monster slam but he didn't get an opportunity. he did however make a nice finger-roll. rice - hit his very first shot, a three. didn't look bad at all for his first game. played with the second unit - mo, oscar, bostjan, tito. as a group they were pretty sloppy, never really got into the motion offense if at all. very much like the first game, there was great action/movement in the first and a lot of iso in the second. the first team looked really smooth, even mooch incoporated more ball movement before he got hurt. nachbar- didn't get the ball once on offense before rudy called a timeout and probably asked them to involve. he immediately came out and got 3 iso plays i believe, missing a couple jumpers but had a sweet drive with a missed layup. eddie - looked very good. defensively him and yao will be beasts. had 2 blocks on duncan from the weakside and one sweet turnaround bank shot from the baseline. TERRENCE MORRIS - this guy is impressing the crap out of me. it's obvious now how much he worked on his shot. he always had the good hustle and defense but now he sticks the jumper almost automatically. great game, hopefully he can continue it. tierre/tito/oscar - tierre did a nice job for the mooch. hit a few open jumpshots and generally moved the ball well. tito on the other hand looked completely lost and it was mainly with him in that we went to iso's. i'm not saying it's his fault but there weren't too many well run plays when he was in there. probably some jitters though. oscar took advantage of his matchup with steve kerr and had a couple nice post-ups. you can tell he's incredibly athletic no matter who's guarding him though. cat and kenny - the normal stuff from them. cat made the play of the game on a no-look pass to tmo for a layup. with the first team he looked great but in the second-half got VERY sloppy with the rest of the second team. no coincidence that it was when we went back to iso's. highlight of the game was when steve joined bill and calvin for almost a whole quarter. mentioned how he met yao ming's mom and how he can't wait for him to get here and just shake his hand and get him in the pit(the paint). talked about him as "our center." talked about the new offense with calvin and the improvement of tmo. he's so genuine and you can tell that he wants to lead this team. great guy.
9 TO's for the Cat? Ouch, but 9-12 shooting is pretty sweet. 5 blocks for Griffin. I can't wait to see the Ming/Griffin swat-a-thon.
From my pov, MoT and Rice can't dribble with the ball. Boki looked out of place. Tmo was impressive. The motion offense was great in the first half, second half they went back to iso's and it was sloppy. That is all
