Rockets @ Bucks Game Thread

[dunleavyjr]

Game summary:

Tmac continues with his massacre on the Bucks.
Yao looks like he had *sex* all night long.

[MaxRider]

I just cannot realize how bad the Boncats are...

they are 4-15 on the road
you expect them to win at Denver (19-5 at home)?

[Teckon]

Oh Rockets now has the 3rd best road records in the western conference. Behind Hornets and Suns. Tied with Warriors.

[Iggyemu]

LOL at the mink coat Skip has on. Good interview by him though.

[McTracy]

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they are 4-15 on the road
you expect them to win at Denver (19-5 at home)?

The cannot make even layups. How many has Okafor missed....

[McTracy]

Good move by Vincent. The refs shouldnt decide who should win. They are just kiddin'. Their callas are just funny, just idiots

[Buck You]

Good game guys. We blow and are mentally ill. But at least we kept it close.

[dunleavyjr]

Good game guys. We blow and are mentally ill. But at least we kept it close.

Good game for Bogut too. Tonight's game he certainly didn't look like a Luc Longley. In the opening minutes, he attacked the basket, and he drew to quick fouls on Yao, sending the 7'6" to the bench.

Then he ate Mutomobo alive in the post. He just kept punishing Yao inside. His best game against the Rockets.

[RoxFan08]

Good game guys. We blow and are mentally ill. But at least we kept it close.

Good game to you too. The Yi vs. Yao matchup was kind of a letdown, but still, you guys came out and competed. Tmac just did his thing. Best of luck the rest of the season, we won't be seeing you again until next year.

[compucomp]

I know I'm repeating the obvious, but Yao was just bad today and McGrady was the man.

That's two bad games in a row for Yao now. It's starting to look like December again. He's descending into Jermaine O'Neal territory again. Sigh, I thought he'd gotten himself out of his slump with a strong January, but it's just not to be this year for whatever reason. Maybe next year he can recover from the worst season of his career.

[jw_bskball]

I know I'm repeating the obvious, but Yao was just bad today and McGrady was the man.

That's two bad games in a row for Yao now. It's starting to look like December again. He's descending into Jermaine O'Neal territory again. Sigh, I thought he'd gotten himself out of his slump with a strong January, but it's just not to be this year for whatever reason. Maybe next year he can recover from the worst season of his career.

He had a bad game. I think the back-to-back and the inordinate amount of attention to this game got to him. He'll be OK. At least he didn't do his turn around jumper when he struggled; he still attacked the basket pretty aggressively. That's the most important thing.

[BaYBaller]

Yeah we really play down to our competition, but we did still win convincingly and we do get up for better competition.

The T-Mac tonight is what I wanted to see. He did tonight exactly what I wanted him to do last night, and that was aggressively look for his shot off the ball. He posted on the elbow all night long and made cuts and generally made the defense pay whatever they did.

Yao struggled. He got schooled by Bogut. Bogut knew exactly how to attack Yao, off the dribble. Plus he used his body very well to create space. Yao cannot handle these situations, you have to double when he puts the ball on the floor because Bogut does not have the jumper of a Boozer or West.

It seemed Yao was just plain out of sync, just like last time we played the Bucks. It's amazing he seems to be letting the pressure get to him when he pioneered chinese basketball in the first place.

Also Luther out with the groin injury means the team has even less shooting.

[nyk_buc]

I know I'm repeating the obvious, but Yao was just bad today and McGrady was the man.

That's two bad games in a row for Yao now. It's starting to look like December again. He's descending into Jermaine O'Neal territory again. Sigh, I thought he'd gotten himself out of his slump with a strong January, but it's just not to be this year for whatever reason. Maybe next year he can recover from the worst season of his career.

can a guy have a few poor games? yao's human.

and this is the best season of his career dawg. OVERALL that is.

[compucomp]

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can a guy have a few poor games? yao's human.

and this is the best season of his career dawg. OVERALL that is.

He has become inconsistent again. Three out of his past four games have been total garbage. He won the PoM but now is making Andrew Bogut look like an All-NBA player. Inconsistency like that is typical of second tier stars like Jermaine O'Neal and Yao 2004-2005, not a real superstar like Yao should be.

Every year of Yao's career he has taken a step forward and improved his game and production; not this year. He has taken major steps back, producing less in more minutes with the lowest PER since his 2nd year and the lowest FG% since his rookie year. He has saved his season from utter disaster with a strong January but it looks like the clunkers are back. I expect Yao to at least perform like he did last year. He is far from that, therefore I think this is the worst year of his career. Maybe next year he'll recover.

[nyk_buc]

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He has become inconsistent again. Three out of his past four games have been total garbage. He won the PoM but now is making Andrew Bogut look like an All-NBA player. Inconsistency like that is typical of second tier stars like Jermaine O'Neal and Yao 2004-2005, not a real superstar like Yao should be.

Every year of Yao's career he has taken a step forward and improved his game and production; not this year. He has taken major steps back, producing less in more minutes with the lowest PER since his 2nd year and the lowest FG% since his rookie year. He has saved his season from utter disaster with a strong January but it looks like the clunkers are back. I expect Yao to at least perform like he did last year. He is far from that, therefore I think this is the worst year of his career. Maybe next year he'll recover.

since u already have relegated this season to his worst, then don't post about yao anymore please.

come back next yr.

i'm not going to complain about our star player struggling if the team plays well offensively. we shot well again at 50%. last night both of them struggled and we still shot 48%.

u should be glad we have a team now where our stars can struggle and we still can win.

it's a team's sport.

but i think the reason for his struggles tonight is the b2b. he rarely fares well on a b2b. u can see his lateral movement defensively tonight was slow and bogut outquicked him. it's nothing major. he'll bounce back v. minny.

[tha_rock220]

I know I'm repeating the obvious, but Yao was just bad today and McGrady was the man.

That's two bad games in a row for Yao now. It's starting to look like December again. He's descending into Jermaine O'Neal territory again. Sigh, I thought he'd gotten himself out of his slump with a strong January, but it's just not to be this year for whatever reason. Maybe next year he can recover from the worst season of his career.

tis ok my friend. against the crappy teams of the leage t-chuck can launch be the man with little worry aboot gettin yao involved. agaist good teams like dalls and sanontio yao has to get goin nd the rockets go nowheres without him.

[TMACFORMVP]

I saw the game on NBATV at my friends house yesterday.

We shouldn't have been that close in the first place, defense in the second half was poor and we turned it over too much in the first half. Overall decent win, but we really need to play better. McGrady was dominant, shot the ball well, rebounded and passed well. Yao didn't particularly have a good offensive game but his rebounding has been superb this season (now over 11 boards a game IIRC).

Alston also played well.

It sucks Novak wasn't able to play, his whole family was there..

[King Roosk]

Mike James's layup in the 2nd quarter made me realize that his quickness would get him so many easy layups in Adelman's offense. Too bad he has no idea how to run a team...

[DraftBoy10]

Our defense sucks, and Tracy's still slow and fat as hell.

But our offense is real nice. Bonzi needs to play more, he was jumping around all over the place.

[Mr. E]

97.5 million people watched the Super Bowl yesterday.

The day before that, over 200 million watched the Rockets-Bucks game.

Talk about a China Connection!