As usual the only thing we are good at(clutchfans) is playing the blame game following any rockets loss. So just for clarification purposes whose fault was it this time we lost?
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Whatever Adelman is trying to do with the team-IT ISN"T WORKING I remind fans that the only reason that we won in the preseason was because of the play of Brooks and Von Wafer. The team looks slow and out of sync,where is all the youth we had playing in the preseason. Even at this early stage I recommend we stop taking about the Rockets as CONTENDERS as the team has a most definite height and mobility problem. A 7' strong agile player for backup Center/Power Forward would help- he should be able to play about 20 mins a game- Morey havea look in Europe.
it was the teams fault. lamarcus aldridge was on fire. ball wasnt distributed/ moved around enough. rebounding was horrible. etc.
Last time I checked basketball was a team sport. Maybe some people had more fault than others, but it was everyone's fault in some way.
If a good team plays bad, they can still be good enough to win. Just because they played bad and won the game, it doesn't mean they don't deserve the win. The clock didn't start in time. It is the officials job to rule whether or not the shot was off in time. The officials did not count Scola's shot during preseason, because the clock started late. Last night, they decided the hell with it. BRoy's shot clearly required more than 8 tenths of a second.
Dude, I was joking... You can't blame it really on anyone cause it was a lucky shot. Maybe we could've played it better but it was still a lucky shot. If you wanna blame someone blame Brandon Roy or the whole team for keeping the game close.
imo we lost mainly due to poor rebounding - on top of everything else. and it is a team-wide issue. from yao to ron, to all the guards. part of it is effort.
How does T-Mac let Roy get that much separation? He wasn't even screen or anything. WTF was he doing!?!?kdfbl;jb'ndbk./ljSD.ndsf/ljbf.fg gffg g gf Inexcusable, terrible letdown on the last play. ****
Other: The entire team and the coaches. As far as the last play... According to Feigen: "McGrady thought a screen was coming and knew that Ron Artest was to switch to Roy after a screen. McGrady stopped, but because there was no screen, Artest never picked up Roy who was all alone for his 31-foot rainbow." http://blogs.chron.com/nba/2008/11/..._over_outs.html --------------------------------- Roy getting that clean look was on McGrady, not Artest. It was inevitable. McGrady has been horrible defensively all season. The steals are nice but there are 70-90 possessions per game. You don't always need to collect a stat to play good defense. Chuck Hayes will tell you that. What we needed on that play wasn't necessarily a statistic. We just needed somebody that would fight through any pains they had in their body to get a hand in Roy's face. If he was just being lazy, then he needed to dig down deep one more time.
It's no use finding a lamegoat and throw all those sh!ts onto his head, what we need is some solusions and a backup center.
T-Mac was guarding for the midrange play. Not the long bomb 3. Ron was supposed to step over and T-MAc would ahve switched to the middle. The communication messed up and Roy got separation with niether tmac nor artest anywhere near him... and he made a brilliant / lucky shot which apparenlty took more than .8 seconds.
it was mcgrady's fault. you chase roy enless there is a screen. no screen, so there's no reason t-mac shouldn't be on roy.
i voted the entire team; however, instead of chasing roy, tmac was pointing at him? In my opinion, regardless to how badly the rockets played tonight, our super stars stepped up during clutch time. tracy with his points in the 4th quater put us back into the game. ron with the awsome defense on roy in the end of the 4th quater, which brought us to OT. then yao with the clutch shot in OT. To me our super stars showed up when we needed them. Untill the very end, where Tracy decides to just stand there and let Roy gamble his long 3 point shot. Tracy Mcgrady lost the bet, and caused the defeat upon the Rockets.
