Tmac Benched (UPDATE - his lower back stiffened up on him)

Shall I remind you our record against West or +.500 teams? Beating Utah should not be considered a given, even with home court advantage. We just royally screwed ourselves with this loss.

 

Didnt he want to comebcak but apprantly GUNDY REFUSED TO PUT HIM BACK IN?. so that quashes the haters argument bout him not wanting to comeback

 

That is the way I saw it too....and maybe they really want the Warriors to play the Mavs in the first round........the team AND Tmac mailed it in tonight.

It was a post loss hangover.

DD

 

im watching the game right now...

i see that...it just tells me that someone needs to step up. we're not gonna get outta the first round. thats what that tells me...

 

My god people, does 29-7 at home speak anything for you? The Jazz are MONSTERS in thier home court. They SUCK on the road. Same for the Rockets, except its a bit more balenced.

HCA was hella important. Its pretty much lost now, but seriously if we have a chance for it WE NEED TO TAKE IT.

 

It is possible to sit and move around normally with a stiff lower back (I used to have lower back problems when I played sports towards the end of college)

The pain comes when you move suddenly or too quickly. Just because he was sitting upright doesn't mean it wasn't stiff

 

we were 2 games behind prior to tonights game. We are now 3 games behind.

 

No. He said after the game it was bothering him and he shut it down

 

i couldn't believe vspan was in there, who's that little white dude on the court, oh wait, it's Spanoulis!

vg is content with the 5 seed, and listening also to battier today on 610, he also feels that rox should be able to play anywhere anytime.

might not agree, andi'm sure there' going to be "wtf??????" posts.

 

he did. he stretched and got loose. that's why he lied down on the floor and he didn't put up his warm up jackets yet. apparently jvg didn't want him to go back in.

i think jvg knows that w/o tmac, we're screwed. he doesn't care about homecourt as much as being healthy and playing well.

 

Oh, btw, you will start noticing a lot of good teams 'slacking off' at this juncture of the season.

You may not like it but you're just a fan, these teams/coaches know that health is the top priority going into the playoffs.

 

i think everybody knows that...

 

I was joking about that on the way back from the game. That Van Gundy wants Golden State in Round 2 should we beat the Jazz, so he let them have this game. I wish it were that simple.

 

Exactly !!

DD

 

we play utah. as good as utah is, ive learned from that game that boozer won't kill us.

okur can but as long as we learn to not double off the pick and roll and just let deron try to finish at the rim, we're fine. i let deron score all day b/c that would limit his passing.

and only yao playing well can nearly give us a win? i take that

 

portland is up 4 against utah...5 mins to go

 

We were three, and if Jazz win tonight we're going to be four game behind for home court.

 

how did that help us 2 yrs ago?

homecourt is important for the 7th game. but i think utah is not as deep as dallas so it wont hurt us as much.

 

i'll take that too. they got no answer for yao.

but we need tmac and our bench to play well too. if we had lu, we wouldve won that game...

 

You actually planning to present an argument instead of calling me a Yao-only fan?

And he is only regarded as unselfish because of his willingness to pass the rock, not his dedication to his team. Don't tell me Mac has never been known to quit on his team.