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When: Friday, April 11th, 2008
Where: Toyota Center - Houston, Texas
When exactly: 8:30pm, Eastern Time (2:30am CET)
TV: LeaguePass

The lineups:

The Suns
Starting 5:

C: Shaquille O'Neal (#32 / 7'1'' / 325)
PF: Amare Stoudemire (#1 / 6'10'' / 249)
SF: Grant Hill (#33 / 6'8'' / 225)
SG: Raja Bell (#19 / 6'5'' / 215)
PG: Steve Nash (#13 / 6'3'' / 178)

Bench:

G: Leandro Barbosa (#10 / 6'3'' / 202)
F-C: Boris Diaw (#3 / 6'8'' / 235)
G: Gordan Giricek (#2 / 6'6'' / 220)
F-C: Brian Skinner (#54 / 6'9'' / 255)


The Rockets
Starting 5:

C: Dikembe Mutombo (#55 / 7'2'' / 260)
PF: Luis Scola (#4 / 6'9'' / 245)
SF: Shane Battier (#31 / 6'8'' / 220)
SG: Tracy McGrady (#1 / 6'8'' / 223)
PG: Rafer Alston (#12 / 6'2'' / 175)

Bench:

SG: Luther Head (#2 / 6'3'' / 185)
F: Steve Novak (#20 / 6'10'' / 220)
F: Chuck Hayes (#44 / 6'6'' / 238)
G: Bobby Jackson (#8 / 6'1'' / 185)
F: Carl Landry (#14 / 6'9'' / 248)
G: Aaron Brooks (#0 / 6'0'' / 161)


GOOO SUNS!!!

T-Mac is playing..

Hopefully the suns are still riding high after the spurs win and they come out and beat houston on friday, this will be a hard game to win Tmac will keep the rockets in it but I think suns pull away in the 4th qtr

Suns 129

Houston 124

Leading Scorer Amare 38 pts

Texas Longhorns wrote:T-Mac is playing..

Sweet. Pencil in a 2 for 25 shooting effort by him.

SUNS WIN!

I think the Rockets Logo needs to be bigger.

So negative, I was just pointing it out the OP who put Luther Head at the starting line up. Classless fan.

Texas Longhorns wrote:So negative, I was just pointing it out the OP who put Luther Head at the starting line up. Classless fan.

Just ignore him man. The Rockets are a much better team with him than without.

The battle for the 5th seed obviously, D'Antoni should send the message across: who do you want in the playoffs the Laker or other teams?

After beating the Sterns I don't even think there is a sky up there anymore. Having said that, mine is again black. I miss daylight savings.

GET SOME NUTS!!!

durden_tyler wrote:The battle for the 5th seed obviously, D'Antoni should send the message across: who do you want in the playoffs the Laker or other teams?

not so fast chief,

depending on the lakers game with utah, the spurs game with LA etc, this game could be for 3rd, or even 2nd (unlikely) in the west.....

Win at all costs

Texas Longhorns wrote:T-Mac is playing..

Shaq owns both TD and Mutombo.

Texas Longhorns wrote:T-Mac is playing..

Thanks for letting me know, just changed it
Head played against Seattle, that's why I put him into the staring 5, didn't know Tracy was going to be back.

BringinDaRuckus wrote:I think the Rockets Logo needs to be bigger.

I absolutely agree, and therefor I just enlarged it while editing the Rockets' lineup. Not sure whether you can see the enlarged version inside the thread, but right-clicking the logo should definitely do the trick.

Edit: enlarged it again to make sure BDR is happy with the size of the logo

BringinDaRuckus wrote:I think the Rockets Logo needs to be bigger.

Very important game for seeding here, Pacific div title hopes aren't completely dead just yet.
We usually own the first round virgins, so this game shud def be in the bag.

Wanna see everybody play as well as they did vs the Sterns

GO SUNS!

Hopefully, we can keep this groove we are in going into the playoffs. I think with each game we are developing more of a swagger, but the West is a beast and these last few games can be critical. We don't need anymore mental lapses like the Dallas game.

If we go 3-0 (Houston, GS, Portland), which is completely doable...

and

LA goes 2-2 (LAC, NO b2b, SA, SAC), also possible...

We'll win the Pacific and be 3rd seed. Likely? Not really, unless SA decides they didn't like being beat by 20 and NO keeps their pride.

IF we go 3-0 and the Spurs lose 1 game we get a top 3 seed

Shane Battier is not playing

Battier's out? This is a done deal.

If the spurs go 2-2 and we go 2-1 we would be ahead of the spurs in the standings.