[Game#22] Rockets vs Magic - Game Thread

[MaxRider]

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Houston Rockets vs Orlando Magic
December 8th, 2013, 18:00 CST
at Toyota Center, Houston, Texas

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[zapatasblood]

Well looks like I am not making the championship game my league so I need the Rockets to destroy the magic. Please do not play down to the Magic.



Efff you McCoy and Gordon

[kam_soluusar]

Play hard, protect the ball, move the ball, we win this.

[TMACFORMVP]

Let's see....

1.) Oladipo and Afflalo will challenge Haren. This will force him to abandon ball movement, and go iso where he settles for 10 step back threes where he makes 1-2 of them. The other possessions result in TOV's.
2.) Afflalo has been an all-star caliber player this year, in fact, he should be a lock in the EC. With our porous perimeter defense, expect him to be open, and kill us from the perimeter.
3.) Vucevic will kill us on the offensive boards.
4.) Expect 18+ TO's, and Orlando to score 24+ points off those turnovers.
5.) Garcia will brick open shots like he did the last game.
6.) Dwight facing his former team, and its his birthday so he'll try to prove himself with post ups. Unfortunately, he will go 2-7 on those post ups, have 4 TOV's, and miss FT's when fouled.
7.) Expect the return of Hack-a-Howard, where he will go 3-10 from the line during that stretch giving the Magic momentum.
8.) Glen Davis is back, and he's playing well. He had a 30+ point game the other day, and expect him to kill us around the rim, and in pick and pop situations.
9.) Nicholson and Harkless will hit a couple threes a piece, b/c they'll be wide open.
10.) Beverley will continue to have supbar offensive games, and Brooks will have one of those "bad" games again. Casspi will also cool down a bit from recent play.
11.) TJones won't have a good first quarter, which means he'll have an awful game, which means we won't get off to a good start, which means we'll struggle the entire game.
12.) We'll also inevitably think we're greater than we are, and play down to our competition. This will result in lazy plays, and non effort plays, which Orlando will capitalize on.
13.) Parsons will give it a go? But his shot will be off, and defensively won't be much a factor with how much Orlando will get in transition and move around their athletes.
14.) McHale will call a timeout when we have momentum. Coming out of that timeout, we'll turn the ball over, stop ball movement, and Orlando will go on 14-3 run which gets them back into the game.
15.) And when it's close, we'll resort to the only thing we do each time, Haren ISO, where we get really low % shots on offense, and don't execute defensively.

I'm excited.

[Mr. E]

Sounds about right.

Do I want to stop my Banshee marathon to watch this clearly hopeless game?

[Mr.Baller]

Gotta win this kind of game.

[panarama]

yeaYYY yaYY!!

fixed: let's play some defense to legitmatised our standing.

[Mr. E]

Happy Birthday, Dwight!

[Mr. E]

Rockets ice cold to start this one...

[TMACFORMVP]

Glen Davis has always been a solid post defender. Dwight in the post won't work.

[Tomas_11]

Are these guys hungover? WTF is going on

[Mr. E]

Parsons is feeling it tonight!

[Tomas_11]

Well the 3- ball is there for us tonight.. thank God

[Guy986]

CHandler Parsons.

[Mr.Baller]

hoard looks slow

[Guy986]

When is Asik coming back? Is Greg Smith knee healed yet?

[Mr. E]

OT - Woj is reporting that Sacramento is sending Vasquez, Patterson, Hayes & Salmons to Toronto for Rudy Gay

That's a lot of bodies coming into Toronto...

[Aaron Brooks]

2nd unit losing our lead, cmon dmo

[Mr. E]

Harden shot that one from Sugarland!

[Mr. E]

Dwight put in some serious overtime for that possession.