Watching the last two games, if I had a quarter for every time we dropped a pass, missed a rebound, lost control of the ball, etc., I'd be in Bill Gates-territory. Seriously. Van Gundy nees to sit this team down and have them throw tennis balls at each other's heads or something, forcing them to catch the ball. It may put a few people on injured reserve for a few games (*cough* Stromile, Yao, Wesley *cough*), but I think in the end it would be well worth it. If we had those mis opportunities back, we would have been VERY close in both of those games. Possibly, we could have won both. I don't know what it is with us, maybe it takes some chemistry, but I did not know that you have to play for the Houston Astros to catch a ball. God knows nobody on the Rockets or Texans can catch one. P.S. Sorry about this thread, but I'm pissed at our team not being able to catch. It's almost unwatchable. I feel like I'm watching a junior high game... I'm hearing rumors that they're gonna change the name of the arena to the Butterfinger Fieldhouse....
I'm not sure you were watching the part where we missed shot after shot and failed to play defense half the game the best reason is we threw bad passes? lol
It's just our ability to catch was hardly the reason we lost the game lol bingo... there were alot more things wrong with us tonight than a couple of bad passes
It's true, we do miss shot after shot, but there are threads galore talking about our poor shooting. Down the stretch, there were like 5 turnouvers that could have been easily avoided because we didn't catch the ball. We shot almost the same EXACT percentage as the Pistons. We just had 15 less shots than them. These almost all stem from bad passes or simply missed passes. If somehow we stayed in the game for that long, just imagine what we would have done with half the turnovers (just half)...The Pistons, for instance, scored 14 points off turnovers.
It would be pretty silly to ascribe the Detroit loss to one aspect of the game. It was 67-66 when Swift split a pair of FT's at 5:06. From that point on w/o McGrady and with only 1 time out remaining, we committed exactly 2 TO's. If I wanted to partake in the folly of "single point of failure" for the last 5 minutes, one thing stands clearly above all else IMO. We allowed Rasheed Wallace to face up, isolate and score over Swift on 3 straight possessions. On all three plays, David Wesley never left Billups to double down and force Wallace to put the ball on the floor. Wallace is easily a much better spotup shooter than a driver. On the 4th straight possession, Juwan switched to Wallace, Wesley doubled immediately, Wallace passed back out to Billups who rotated the ball to Prince for a missed 3 which the Rockets rebounded.
