the anti-ballhogging thread, AKA the Bobby Jackson thread..

[Scalabrine]

when the game is officiated terribly it needs to be talked about, do you no realize that they called the Okur foul at the end of the game after the ball was out of bounds? How about Scola fouling out on touch fouls (3 of them) and the tie up with Korver(out of bounds) and Battier? Refs gave the Rockets that game in my opini

[dingojazz]

the refs robbed the Rockets last night, not Bobby Jacksons chucking. That game was officiated very poorly, it was disgusting to watch them hand the game to the Jazz. For me the theme of the playoffs have been the refs not letting teams play enough and sort of controlling the outcome of the game with the whistles.

Give me a break, tough calls went against both teams. I can't speak for other series but the refs have not decided a single outcome in the Jazz-Rockets series. Did you even watch the game? Rockets fans are not even bitching about the refs in this game...

Now, as for the topic of this thread...the Jazz need Korver to find his range soon. 0-6 in game 4 on 3's, if he does that again we might have to start calling him a chucker (Although he did still come up with 10 points and a couple of clutch free throws).

[Reks]

T-Mac haters are dumb. That guy is doing everything in his power to win games w/o Yao
Do you think deron would be shooting over 50% if boozer wasn't there attracting defenders? Deron would suck without boozer

PS CP3>Deron

[GMF]

when the game is officiated terribly it needs to be talked about, do you no realize that they called the Okur foul at the end of the game after the ball was out of bounds? How about Scola fouling out on touch fouls (3 of them) and the tie up with Korver(out of bounds) and Battier? Refs gave the Rockets that game in my opini

I thought the game where Kirelinko flopped out of bonds was badly called, but not this game. The refs were expecting a foul, it was a tough call.

[2poor]

thx Houston.

(I still don't get that trade; but I'm not complaining)

[Julio]

For all the guys wondering why we traded for Jackson..He's an 8M expiring next year..and we got rid of a cancer, James.

[jazzfan1971]

Bingo! We have a winner.

[King Roosk]

Bobby Jackson had been making his shots in the regular season, and he was giving us a huge spark when doing so. He's been off this series, but he usually does well (don't look at his percentages, he's made crucial shots for us since we traded for him). Adelman instructs him to shoot because he's our offensive spark off of the bench, so he's going to keep shooting.

As for the Mike James/Bonzi for BJax trade...use basketball knowledge people. For starters, Mike James is absolutely terrible. He has a pretty hefty contract, so we got rid of it. Second, Bobby Jackson has a huge expiring contract which we'll probably use next year to get a key player (hopefully). Third, Bonzi's contract is up after this season and Houston probably won't have enough money to re-sign him. Finally, Mike James and Steve Francis were clearly not the answers as our backup PG which would've left Aaron Brooks as our only option. Aaron is going to be a fine player, but he's a rookie. At the time, Yao was healthy and we were expecting a deep playoff run, and we knew we need a more solid backup PG so we went after Bobby.

In the long run I think the trade will end up looking very good for Houston.

[lukeridenour]

Does anyone actually know why Rocket traded Mike James and Bonzi Wells for Bobby Jacksons? He only contributes to the opponent team's victories. Either James or Wells are 1000000000x better than that useless Jacksons.

probably finacial reasons. it was odd to me that the rockets did that in the midst of a 12 game winning streak and wells playing so well.

[Heat3]

Anti-Ball hogger? I vote for T-Mac at crunch time.