I want the Rox to win against the Suns... so we can rest our starters against the Jazz.. let them go up against Vspan and Jl3 and Jake....
Before everyone (including Rockets players) get too carried away, beating SUNs bench is not walk in the park. Their bench can still lit it up! For Rockets, they need to win REGARDLESS who SUN plays tomorrow!
He questioned a call on Spurs defence 2:20 3rd qtr and got the first tech, and then laughed at another call on Spurs defence 1:06 3rd qtr on the bench and got tossed by Joey Crawford.
That's not true. Even D'Antoni doesn't trust his bench. SUNS's rotation is the shortest I've even seen for a long time.
I don't think they will exclusively use only bench players. It will be more a distributing less minutes to the starters, like what Mavs is doing. As to their bench, Barbosa has always given Rockets problems. If I remember correctly, last game he scored like 30pts on us. But the point I want to make is that Rockets still need to give this game full attention.
I suggest you take back your words on Duncan. He is one of the current NBA players I respect. Who the hell are you anyway?
Owner Miller says Jazz 'suck' in lopsided loss to Phoenix By Michael C. Lewis The Salt Lake Tribune Article Last Updated: 04/15/2007 05:47:12 AM MDT Related Jazz Game Day Apr 15: Suns 126, Jazz 98Jazz notes: Starting guards are off targetJazz: Limping to the finishJazz Q&A: Andrei KirilenkoMiller blunt about evaluating JazzUtah Jazz season statisticsKRAGTHORPE: When opponents care, Jazz look carelessIt's getting really ugly. Not only did infuriated owner Larry Miller complain that his Jazz "suck" in the wake of the inexplicably lifeless 126-98 loss to the Phoenix Suns at EnergySolutions Arena on Saturday that probably cost them home-court advantage in the playoffs, but the tension in the locker room reached an unusually visible level. After coach Jerry Sloan uncharacteristically opened the locker room to the news media almost immediately after the game - presumably to deny players the usual time to compose themselves before answering questions about why they played so poorly with so much on the line - the annoyed players quickly asked reporters to leave for a few more minutes. Jazz vs. Suns Boxscore: Phoenix 126, Utah 98 But when Sloan saw reporters filing back outside, he returned to the locker room and made it clear that it was indeed open. By the time reporters returned, many of the players had retired to the off-limits training room. Most of those who remained were brief and repetitive. "They beat us from the jump to the finish," forward Carlos Boozer said. "We just got our butts whipped. They just kicked our butts from jump to finish. End of story. Game's over now." The season might be, too. By allowing the Suns to swoop and soar their way to one of the most lopsided home decisions in recent Jazz history - they scored 68 points in the first half alone, led by as many as 31, shot 52 percent and made 30 of 31 free throws - the Jazz fell two games behind the Houston Rockets in the race for home-court advantage in the first round of the playoffs, with two games to go. So unless the Jazz win their last two games and the Rockets lose their last two, the Jazz are doomed to start the playoffs on the road. But location has to be the least of their problems, judging by the way they plodded through their seventh Photo Gallery Jazz vs Suns Gallery loss in their last nine games. Once again, the Jazz seemed content to take quick shots and play defense like a team of matadors. "They kicked our butt," guard Deron Williams said. "It looks like we don't even know how to play basketball." And that's putting it mildly. Somehow showing almost no energy from the opening tip, the Jazz fell behind by a dozen before making their first basket more than four minutes into the game - the boos already had started to descend on the floor from the sellout crowd of 19,911 fans - missed nine of their first 10 shots and never had a chance against one of the most talented teams in the league, still striving to clinch the second seed in the playoffs. "We came out here and did everything we wanted to do," the Suns' Shawn Marion said. Phoenix's Leandro Barbosa scored 28 points, the other six regulars all easily reached double figures, and Steve Nash had 10 of his 18 assists (and no turnovers) by halftime. The Jazz, on the other hand, did absolutely nothing to get excited about. "It doesn't matter where we play or who we play right now," guard Derek Fisher said, "because we're not playing the type of basketball we're capable of playing. It wouldn't matter if we were a one seed, eight seed, home or away. Right now, we won't get it done." The loss cost the Jazz their first season sweep of the Suns in seven years, and the pure drudgery of it surprised Sloan - considering the Jazz were almost in a must-win situation and coming off an encouraging, if not completely realistic, victory over the short-handed Dallas Mavericks. "It was a very disappointing night, to say the least," Sloan said, "because that was a big game for us. . . . If you're going to play in the playoffs, and you want home-court advantage, you have to fight like crazy for it. And we think fighting maybe is blaming somebody else. That's what the concern is, the way we played." mcl@sltrib.com Source: http://www.sltrib.com/sports/ci_5673050?source=rv
Wow, that has to suck. They are melting down if they have internal locker room spats like that. Rocket Zoom
