100% my sentiments!! I have watched each of the games of this series several times, with the exception of the game 5 ( did not watch at all, was kinda sure of the outcome). I really feel they are ours!! Believe!!!
What is there not to believe in when the series is still in the Rockets favor? 2 chances to win it with 1 being at home.
You said it all there. I mean come on, we are the 5th seed not 4th like we have been past couple of years. Like past couple of years, we did not have the home court advantage. We were suppose to get beaten. 4th seed is suppose to beat 5th seed. But we have owned them so far. Why have people given up already? WE ARE UP 3-2. Imagine if we were down 3-2 (which is how it was supposed to be, thats what it would have been if we werent able to steal a game there). We did what we were suppose to do, steal a game there and protect our home court. Just because we lost game 5, on their court, with them facing the elimination, and everyone has given up on the team already? Turrible. I BELIEVE. ROCKETS IN 6. THATS WHAT MY PREDICTION WAS TOO. GO ROCKETS!!! MAKE IT HAPPEN
i believe other players can make to counteract the damage ab costs. the best answer is take him out of starting line.
those people who don't want see any adjustment or change are oblivious. we only won 1 point in game 4 and 3 points in game 3. how they are so confident we must win tomorrow ?
We may believe but the Rockets need to believe it too. The key is they need to believe that they can do it but they haven't done it yet. We are playing as if the series is over yet. Anything can happen in the NBA. I'm sure the Mavs were thinking the same thing when we lost against the Warriors. I am sure that is what we were thinking when we were up two games against the Mavs that first year of the TMac era. I believe we can do it but do our guys believe it too?
I believe Rockets will win game six . Yao should take more touches and AB should on the bench. Let Barry on the board Please!
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It is normal that knee-jerk reaction comes out when we lose. I could not stop whining twice we lost. But all is over. We are now 3-2, in an advantageous position to pass the 1st round. I still believe Rox will pull off another decisive win over Portland Trailers
From this article, they seem starting to have doubt about their ability to execute. "His words dripping with frustration, Yao Ming made it sound simple. Maybe it should have been. The Rockets’ offense had crumbled again Tuesday night, falling apart for a crucial stretch of another fourth quarter. The Rockets were unable to close out the game and the series. Yao, whose last points came on a jumper with 10:19 left, seethed. In the blur of Rockets panic and Portland points, the Rockets’ composure fell, Yao’s aggravation rose, and the series returned to Houston with the Rockets leading 3-2 but reeling. Yao had grown tired of being reduced to a witness. “I don’t know,” he said sarcastically when asked what went wrong in the 88-77 loss in Game 5. “I just went up and down on the court. I don’t know anything. I just ran baseline to baseline for seven or eight times. That’s it. “I mean, I ran up and down. We didn’t organize well. We did not execute. We did not know what is the play. We don’t know what is called.” He then gathered himself with a long, deep breath and tried to look ahead to tonight’s chance to finally extend a Rockets season past the first round. “Right now, we need to look at the positive and leave frustration (behind),” Yao said. “We still have a home game to play.” The Trail Blazers have had as much trouble at Toyota Center as the Rockets have had on the road in the playoffs. The Rockets have won 12 of the last 13 meetings with the Trail Blazers in Houston, including the last six. They are 7-0 all-time at home in the playoffs against Portland. “We got home-court advantage,” Aaron Brooks said. “That’s what we played for in the first two games when we got the split. We put ourselves in a good position to go home and close out the series.” The Rockets know, however, that more than a change of venue is needed. In their two losses in the series, they went through fourth-quarter crashes that invited the Blazers to take over. With Game 2 on the line and the Blazers leading by one with four minutes left, the Rockets’ offense stumbled just long enough for Portland to rush through a 7-0 run to take command of the game. With the Rockets leading by four with nine minutes left in Game 5, the offense stumbled again, starting the Trail Blazers on their way to a 15-0 run and an 11-point lead. After burning a Blazers defense bent on stopping Yao for three games, the Rockets made just 39.8 percent of their shots in Game 4 and broke down in the fourth quarter of Game 5, making 35 percent. However, they seemingly had retooled the offense to pry Yao loose from the double-teams that had surrounded him through much of the series. With Luis Scola’s continued success — he had 15 first-quarter points on Tuesday — the Blazers went from the big-man sandwich on Yao to a more conventional double team. Yao allowed the Portland centers to front him on the strong side and seemed to then seal them off as he moved across the lane. He began getting consistent touches late in the first half of Game 5. The rest of the way, however, the Rockets rarely were able to get him the ball inside. “Offensively, we have to have more patience,” Rockets coach Rick Adelman said. “We can’t just come down and play at a frenzied pace. “We only had five assists in the second half. We shortcut a lot of things. We played impatient trying to score, and we didn’t have to. And we turned it over too many times. That’s the impatience. If we play the way we’re capable of playing, we’ll be OK.” He say this every time we lost. The Rockets struggled with their perimeter shooting throughout Game 5, hitting just three of 15 3-pointers. Brooks and Ron Artest finished a combined 9-of-29, with Brooks often forced to rush to beat the shot clock. “The first thing you want is to get Yao the ball,” Brooks said. “You swing it around and try to find him. You find yourself in an awkward position. Somebody has to take the shots. I don’t mind taking them. Normally I make them. This game, I didn’t. “You play five-, six-, seven-game series, the teams start to know what each other does. You get into battles. It’s the team that plays the more aggressive (that wins). I think they did that (in Game 5). I think we have to raise our intensity.” The Rockets also much increase their composure down the stretch. Playing at home should help that, and they don’t I have (had) enough Game 7s.”
