OK - I'll be ZRB. Pretty pathetic overall effort, guess they thought they could just "show up" with so many Clippers out. A pretty sobering lesson for this team that hasn't learned to bring it every nite. Got beat on hustle, the boards, and overall effort. And Stevie, you gotta play with more smarts. He needs Calvin or someone to help him with on court decision making. He makes the game harder than it needs to be. Really disappointing overall effort to win three in a row for the first time in forever. Defense once again disappeared. Dallas Rocket
I hope the players learn from this miserable season, how easy it is to lose, if you don't bother to bring your jock to the court.
I think seeing Earl Boykins out-hustle a much taller Cuttino Mobley for a rebound after a missed shot was the low point of the game, well maybe second lowest point besides the scoring drought in the last five minutes of the game.
The most perplexing thing with this team has been the amount of playing time and power handed to Moochie Norris. I just can't figure it out. Am I going to have to watch Moochie Norris filling a crucial role on this team for 6 more years? If so, I dont know if I want to keep watching and supporting the Rockets anymore.
When Rudy losses his most valuable assett (in his mind), the THREE GUARD LINE UP, he chooses to bring in Morris over Griffin.
bar-I think it could be argued very easily that Morris was playing better than Griffin tonight. Griff looks COMPLETELY out of the offense the last few games.
Griffin looks like he has hit the rookie wall.Even though Mo has his weaknesses we are missing his scoring,despite KT's overall success.
ROCKETBOOSTER, unfortunately Rudy was quoted as saying that Moochie is his guy in the 4th quarter (in this past Sunday's Houston Chronicle). I don't think Moochie will have the same role in the 4th next year, only because the team will be healthier (hopefully it will be because the Rockets will have traded him and his ridiculous contract). Go ahead Moochie supporters flame away.
This was a pitiful pitiful pitiful game. I'm so friggin' dissapointed, only a win over the championship Lakers will make up for this. How? I can not beleive we lost at home to a bad road team, on their 2nd night of a back to back, with Odom, Maggette and Olowokandi injured, and they started Folkes. FOWLKES. FOR GOD'S SAKE GRIFFIN, FOWLKES. KENNY? ANYONE? STEVE? 5 TO's! THAT PRACTICE SURE DID HIM GOOD. ****ing hell..... So much for 3-game winning streak. I don't think the Rockets can handle the pressures of winning.
Jared, I read that. Thats why i think the key to this off-season is to acquire the proper type of players that will put this three-guard offense out of its misery. If Moochie is getting more then 10 minutes next year then ultimatley nothing has changed with this team, imo.
I fold. If you can't beat the friggen Clipps - and a totally injury-ridden Clipps - then you SU*CK! The Rockets just flat SU*CK! I fold. God help me to see the winning light, because it ain't gonna happen here...
You really can't blame Griffin for his stats tonight. He shot 2-4 tonight. Our starting PF gets 4 shots. Three of those shots were from 3 point land (the only place his teammates let him TOUCH the ball), the other was a offensive rebound (put back). RUDY IS PRETTY INNOVATIVE ON HIS PLAY CALLS FOR GRIFFIN!! What would happen if we were to get a top notch SF next year (via draft or trade), Does anybody really think that Rudy is going to sit out his current 3-guard line up next year. I think that the Rockets will hit a NBA wall (if they havent already), until Rudy takes a desk job or re-evaluates his coaching methods. Seasons are won with team play, not 2 (or 3) on 5!!
I can say why I'm mad, simply because I'm tired of seeing missed free throws, bad shots, and a lackluster effort, just to name a few.
Is EG's inside game that pathetic he constantly must hang around the 3-point line? I want to love Mobley, but right about now if im coaching the Rockets, I think I would start Oscar Torress. I know I know, if he looks to good, someone else will sign him. Mobes is just to much of a liability to jack up a stupid shot, giving the team a long rebound and a fast break the other way. The Rockets are punks in the paint on defense. Teams have absolutely no respect for their swatters. Its like a team with a good running game, contiously shoving the ball right up the heart of the defense all game long. I thought the low point of the game was when the Rockets spread the court with their small lineup, basically everyone out of the paint and around the 3-point line, and F#$ing Mobes immediately jacks up a 3 rather than driving, or someone cuts and Mobes dishing. I was really let down on that drive, I almost thought Rudy was digging into Jimmy V's bag of tricks for beating the zone. Im still amazed a beat Clips team took it to the Rockets.
