11-24-08: Rockets vs Heat Game Thread

[A.J.]

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Time: 6:30 CT
Channel: FSN Houston

Probable Starting Lineup

Rafer Alston-Tracy McGrady-Ron Artest-Luis Scola-Yao Ming








Mario Chalmers-Dwyane Wade-Shawn Marion-Michael Beasley-Udonis Haslem

[TMU]

Shut down pretty boy, and the rest will self-destruct itself.

[MaxRider]

Wade look pretty thin back then

[MaxRider]

Shut down pretty boy, and the rest will self-destruct itself.

all we need to do is get him to go out for dinner with Yao at a Chinese restaurant
just force him to eat some live shrimp

[TMACFORMVP]

Wade's been BALLING. What's he doing right now, 28/5/7/2/2 (blocks!) on nearly 50%? That's ridiculous, just got to try to limit him to an extent, Artest doesn't have much a chance though, considering how much he gambles. If we can limit him and get out on their shooters, and not let guys like Beasley, Marion or Haslem dominate the boards, we'd put ourselves in a good position. Yao has to be utilized in this game at ALL TIMES, the Heat literally have no C, and Yao has to take advantage.

with Wade and capable role players at times they can definitely beat us playing on their homecourt, I just hope our energy and intensity is up, because these are the exact type of games we manage to lose, a team we should be able to beat, but with a superstar that can take over a game and lead them to victory.

[mpsniper101]

I'd let Wade have his, just stop everyone else we'll be fine. I don't think one player can beat this team anymore, Kobe used to do it in the past, but I don't think one player can do that against THIS team.

[durden_tyler]

Any news on Shane Battier?

[YoungMoney23]

go rockets!

[mpsniper101]

Any news on Shane Battier?

Another 1-2 weeks away according to Bill and Bullard.

[Lebo13]

Slow down Wade as much as we can and things should work out ok....He has been killin it lately!!

hopefully Yao can use his size advantage against Haslem cos in fairness he is a pf! should be a good game, would be nice to go 3-0 on this trip!!

GO ROCKETS!!

[tha_rock220]

Max, is live shrimp a real chinese dish???

[TMU]

Max, is live shrimp a real chinese dish???

It's called "Drunken Shrimp." The shrimps can be eaten alive or cooked under fire. Either way, the shrimps are immersed in Chinese white liquor for better taste.

[mpsniper101]

I wish Battier was here to he could slow up Wade, not that Artest won't but Battier would have been better. He would have probably annoyed Wade so much that Wade would pick up a technical or two.

[BaYBaller]

The Heat are pretty good this year. I would not be surprised if we lose this game as Wade is on a tear right now, nobody can stop him.

[ShaY]

I am very worried about this game , they will be fronting Yao and I don't kniow how well we will deal with that.

Yao needs to come with a goal to have 20 rebounds this game , if thats his goal then we will win and he will have a double , if he and the team will be worried on how to get him the ball with the fronting we will struggle.

Yao just needs to push his man further out of position , then we should attack the basket and let Yao crash the boards.

[MaxRider]

I was just playing Live09 online as Miami against Houston last night. (If you read the basketball video game thread I created, you will know I hate this kid, who I'm playing against in this game). Houston was leading at half time. Then before half time those Kobe-wanna-be got disconnected (thank God, no team work on offense and don't play defense), this is where the fun begin. I was Chalmer and the other guy is Beasley. We run pick and roll all day long and beat Houston. LOL

[RazorJordan32]

if we work hard and not care about if they suck or not we should win

I hope whoever is guarding wade will do a good job on him and make him shoot under 40%

I hope the rockets win..

Also a quick note for anyone saying that we will kick their butts with ease heat beat us 4 out of the 5 times in miami

http://www.nba.com/games/20081124/HOUMIA/preview.html

[TMACFORMVP]

Yeah, like ShaY said, how we execute against the front will be REAL interesting.

[BaYBaller]

Yeah, like ShaY said, how we execute against the front will be REAL interesting.

The lane should be open all day, especially if they front Yao. Not only are they small on the front court but they also don't have a dominant help defender (maybe Marion but if he's on the inside then who is on T-Mac?). Brooks will have a big game. T-Mac should look to drive it whenever possible. Landry should find many opportunities on the baseline as well. Yao hopefully can still get a good amount of touches by moving the ball and from penetration, but I want to see him work the boards. Basically I do not believe offense will be a problem, it's going to be defense that will the be issue for us this game.

[ShaY]

We are playing good so far , we lost focus a few times in the Yao turnover and when Scola and Yao fumbled the rebound but we good so far , keep it up.