This may be obvious, but the one thing I took from this game is that Carlos Boozer has no chance in hell of beating the Rockets on his own. Rafer made Williams play defense and the Rockets defense took away much of his offensive game. Recipe for Game 6 means putting this guy on his ASSSS anytime he comes into the paint and making the little b!tch work against Rafer. Defense was the key though tonight no doubt. There's no reason they can't play like that in Utah. I don't know how it played on tv, but at some points of the game you could see a little Skip coming out in Rafer on the offensive end. He had a couple of sick moves that left those of in stand's jaws dropped as Jonathan Jayne would say. With Rafer for all 5 games the Rockets are atleast up 3-2 at this point. I'm calling my shot right now I think the Rockets take Game 6 by 10.
I'm sorry man, but I have to disagree w/ you. The key to a rockets victory is OBVIOUSLY holding that monster Kyle Korver to no points....but of course you can't win 'em all, Korver had two blocks....absolute BEAST
seriously, you cant stop a player like Kyle korver, you can just hope to contain him, becuase is a consumate professional, and one of the premier players in this league
Kyle Korver is unstoppable on NBA Live. That's about the only place he'll ever be unstoppable. That's funny that you bring him up. As the clock was winding down in the 4th and Jer brought in the scrubs I thought to myself, man they didn't even play Korver and these B teamers get in, how sad. But what's more sad is the fact that I didn't even notice him in the game. Korver sucks the big one. That chump stole Game 2 from us after the refs stole it first. I guarantee you Korver will do nothing in Game 6 and as you say, that's the key, thus Rockets win again. How sweet it is Geno.
i would like to use this space to apoligize for all the bashing i did on rafer last year we would be **** with out him... keep up the good work go rockets in 6... ps clutchfans i have season tickets and my family usually b****es out on me so next season email if u wanna hit up some games id love to talk ball at the game with my fellow clutchfaniacs
Throw a cheeseburger on the floor then wait and see who wins the fat wrestling match between Deron and Memo?
The key is to NOT DOUBLE WILLIAMS and play him straight up..... When you double you free up the rest of their team, and they don't have another player on the floor that can create for others. So, if you stick to their jump shooters (You hear that Scola) and make Williams play one on one...their offense comes to a dead stop. DD
Sort of agree with you. But Rafer is not quick enough to keep up with Deron on the defensive end. Rafer has to back up just a little bit and make Deron shoot jumpers. Their game is predicated on Deron driving and then finding the open players. Deron is not a good jump shooter and that is not what he wants to do. When we do need to double, leave that stupid russian sob flopper wide open. He couldn't shoot to save his life.
If Rafer goes Skip on Williams, the game is a wrap... Williams can't stay with Rafer even in his dreams, so Rockets ought to run some Iso plays for him and some PnR with Tracy where Rafer is the primary option (SOME of this mind you). Also, Landry needs more touches!!!!
