That's how i've allways felt towards Dallas, maybe it's just me but I also see the Rockets struggling mentally with the Spurs, we do fine against other good teams like the Lakers and the T'Wolves, but when it comes to the Texas teams, the Rockets struggle, so I agree with all that you said about Dallas but I believe that this also happens against the Spurs.
Why we lost 1) No discipline/composure 2) No answer to zone defense (I thought they spent the whole week practicing against the zone? WTF!?!?) 3) Yao limited to 10 lousy fg attempts (He shot over 70% for F*$#'s sake, why didn't he get more attempts dammit!!?!?! oh yeah, almost forgot, the zone) 4) Cat taking 21 freakin fg attempts. Why the hell does Cat get to shoot twice as many times as Yao or Steve or anyone else?!?!?!?! 5) Steve, Cat, and MoT trying to go one-on-one against the whole Dallas team. 6) Turnovers 7) Damn Dallas couldn't miss a damn three.
I'ld love to know how many games we jump out to a huge lead in teh first quarter and are red hot, and then f^ck it up in the second quarter and let the other team catch up. Its painful. I'm sure someone could make a cool graph to show how we give away huge leads in realtion to how we lose/win.
Bah, surely I'm not acting so simply. Clearly, this message was in meant for the legendary and ancient BBS clique.