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When: Sunday, February 24th, 2009
Where: Toyota Center, Houston Texas
Time: 8:30 EST, 5:30 PST, 7:30 CST
Channel: FSN

STARTING LINEUP FOR YOUR HOUSTON ROCKETS!!!



[PG] - Aaron Brooks
[SG] - Shane Battier
[SF] - Ron Artest
[PF] - Luis Scola
[Cc] - Yao Ming

the starting lineup for the blazers, BOOOOOO



[PG] - Steve Blake
[SG] - Brandon Roy
[SF] - Nicholas Batum
[PF] - LaMarcus Aldridge
[Cc] - Joel Pryzbilla

KEYS TO VICTORY
1. PERIMETER DEFENSE, BATTIER/ARTEST ON ROY
2. YAO, YAO, YAO
3. ROTATE DEFENSIVELY, REBOUND
4. SCORE MORE THAN THE OPPONENTS

AND FINALY, HOPEFULLY A LUCKY CHARM. . .


GIRL OF THE NIGHT (ripped of Pacers board)
http://img267.imageshack.us/img267/1369 ... iniwh5.jpg

GO ROCKETS!!

It really is nice for posting here to be SFW. There's an entire internets where I can find that by typing "boob". I can always skip the first page of game threads, but would prefer not to. Eh, just a thought.

moofs wrote:It really is nice for posting here to be SFW. There's an entire internets where I can find that by typing "boob". Just a thought.

or "ass"

ill be the first to say HUGE GAME.. TOUGH GAME....

Battier is going to have his hands full with B roy.. but arteset will spell him for a couple minutes.. not that worried

Ab has to do well on Blake.. he wont be able to stop his assists.. but dont let him shoot the three

Luis is going to have a tough time with Aldridge but his D on Dirk and Diaw was impressive so i hope he keeps up the good defensive effort tomorrow!

Go Rockets

We got this.

I'm not too sure on the picture idea either, but I tried it out the first game and we won, and same with last game, I'll edit it for now. Sorry.

If we're down at halftime (where the gamethread is hopefully more than one page lmao, then I'll put it back).

Must Win.

We must avenge this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MlBq-qXUdcs

Huge game standings wise.

Anyone know Landry's status for this game? And Oden's status for the Blazers?

We ain't losing till Next pre-season.

Go rockets.

Btw Denver looks horrible without nene and Hawks look horrible, I can't believe the hawks have a winning record.

Yeah, but Jazz are looking better. Just our luck, right? I wanted them again at the beginning of the season, but I think I'd prefer to dodge them now that T-mac is out and our point guards are so young.

i think landry is day to day. my guess, he's not playing. fyi the game is tuesday, not sunday. no biggie. we def gotta win this one tomo. were 1/2 game back of ptb in the conference race. i wouldnt mind playing them or utah with home court advantage too. im assuming artest will cover roy? went to the bobcats game. shoulda seen the security around mj. no pictures with him or autographs. we sat pretty close to him but i didnt bring my camera and the iphone camera doesnt zoom so oh well. go rockets!!!

Good luck guys. Important game and I'm nervous as ****

We got this one. Unless Roy makes another half court shot in the buzzer.

I don't even think that tonight's game is gonna be that close for Roy to beat us in the buzzer again. Blazer was kind of hyper after that half court shot. But, they forgot that TMAC was on the court. And, Tracy is out, and we play like a real team.

20+ win for us

langer wrote:I don't even think that tonight's game is gonna be that close for Roy to beat us in the buzzer again. Blazer was kind of hyper after that half court shot. But, they forgot that TMAC was on the court. And, Tracy is out, and we play like a real team.

20+ win for us

T-Mac had 30/7/6 lol, he actually made that jumper to go up 2 points until Roy tied it.

Numbers doesn't mean everything. This season, TMAC is just a cancer in this team. I am not trying to blame the whole thing on him, but he is the factor that holds this team back. Otherwise, you just cannot explain why we are playing so much better without him.

langer wrote:Numbers doesn't mean everything. This season, TMAC is just a cancer in this team. I am not trying to blame the whole thing on him, but he is the factor that holds this team back. Otherwise, you just cannot explain why we are playing so much better without him.

I wouldn't go to the point of calling him a cancer.
He is just a player with exceptional abilities that allow circumstances to catch up with him
Because he is the 'star' player, it is natural that players will differ to him

Tmac's teammates have not said that he wants to be the one getting all the shots and touches. (Although there were allegedly some ridiculous sources quoting Tmac and Yao) No official (i.e. Houston Chronicles) report were made. In fact Yao refuted the article that they were not on talking terms.

The only cancerous thing I find is Tmac's contract - ridiculously high.

Sure, we are playing better without him on the court - probably because he was injured (knee and mind) Some may say that he quit in the Toronto game - yes i agree but I think he has made a U-turn from the mindset. The franchise and probably his teammates (maybe except Artest) are supportive of him. (Actually someone was telling me that Artest could be the cancer since he always wanted to oust McGrady from the line-up even though he said that it was Tmac's and Yao's team. So McGrady, being the weaker one mentally, gave in when no one stood on his side of the court.)

I believe that Tmac is someone who lives on praise. When people feel his presence and appreciate it, he usually brings his game. Tmac said that he wants to get the last laugh - as a rocket fan, i want him to get that last laugh even though i feel that he will not be the same anymore. Prove us wrong - We want to be proven wrong.

Yao went 4-13, i do not expect him to shoot that bad in today's game. Not only that we have Battier back, Artest isn't as injured. Von Wafer will get some minutes

Rockets just need to slow down Roy and Aldridge. Both Shane and Scola have to defend well, don't foul them, force them to take tough shots.

imagine if we drafted roy... we will not have battier.

YaoZaii wrote:imagine if we drafted roy... we will not have battier.

HA! GAFFLE!!

YaoZaii wrote:imagine if we drafted roy... we will not have battier.

I only imagine us winning every game till next preseason.