[Round 2, Game 4] Houston Rockets vs. Los Angeles Lakers

[TMU]

Houston Rockets vs. LA Lakers


Date: May 10, 2009
Time: 3:30 EST
Where: Toyota Center, Houston
Channel: ABC


2009 PLAYOFFS SERIES
Lakers lead 2-1
Game 1 (Away): 100 - 92 W
Game 2 (Away): 98 - 111 L
Game 3 (Home): 108 - 94 L

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TEAM STATS
Season Record: 53-29, 2nd in NBA Southwest Division
Pace Factor: 90.3 (19th of 30)
Offensive Rating: 108.3 (15th of 30)
Defensive Rating: 103.9 (4th of 30)

STARTERS
PG: Aaron Brooks #0


SG: Ron Artest #96


SF: Shane Battier #31


PF: Luis Scola #4


C: Yao Ming #11


BENCH
G - Von Wafer #11
F - Carl Landry #14
G - Kyle Lowry #7
G - Brent Barry #17
F - Chuck Hayes #44
C - Dikembe Mutombo #55


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TEAM STATS
Season Record: 65-17, 1st in NBA Pacific Division
Offensive Rating: 112.7 (3rd of 30)
Defensive Rating: 104.6 (6th of 30)
Pace Factor: 94.4 (5th of 30)

STARTERS
PG: Derek Fisher #2


SG: Kobe Bryant #24


SF: Trevor Ariza #3


PF: Lamar Odom #7


C: Pau Gasol #16


BENCH
C - Andrew Bynum #17
F - Luke Walton #4
G - Shannon Brown #12
G - Sasha Vujacic #18
G - Jordan Farmar #5
F - Josh Powell #21


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BEAT LA!

[TMACFORMVP]

love the pictures, must win, but after a Game 3 loss, the best case scenario we can ask for is pushing the series to 6.

[RaoulDuke79]

It really saddens me that one of these adorable little guys had to be slaughtered for the poor performance tonight:



So sad. Way to go Rockets. You let an endangered fictional species get one member smaller, and for what? That embarrassing display? Pathetic.

[HTown_TMac]

Talk about A Lot of pictures!

Get us a Playoff win.. I couldnt

[SashAlex]

LOL at the pictures !

[DubaLakers]

Low class with the rapist comment. You wanna say adulturer have at it.

[hackle]

Nice thread dude!!!
Let's get'em boyz!

[PocketRockets]

Low class with the rapist comment. You wanna say adulturer have at it.

Alleged rapist. Yeah, I'm pretty sure that white chick consented. There's no way she didn't know who he was and if he was harrassing her, she probably could have avoided the situation easily. It was all about the money that she thought she could get from the incident.


Anyways, Let's show more effort please this game. We're making it easy for the lakers. They're playing their normal style of ball and we gotta take them out of their comfort zone. Less turnovers and more post ups. I don't really care about the 9 blocks b/c more times than not, if we get the ball deep in the post, we're gonna score. Ron needs to calm down. Yao needs slow down, it seems like he's rushing it. And the other players need to shoot when open. I saw too many times guys hesitated or got scared and drove and took a stupid shot. They are giving us the 3 and we need to take it.....make or miss.

[T-Wack]

If we don't win this game, the series is over in five. If we do, it's over in six.

[amb1ent]

portland trailblazers, eh?

[iamworthy]

portland trailblazers, eh?

[TruSkool]

that was BY FAR the most entertaining and funniest post ive ever seen on realgm!!!!!
great job T-MAC UNITED!
-lakers fan

have a good game!

[Rendezvous]

Lets Get that Defensive lock down on the LAKERS

LIMIT THEM TURNOVERS!

Pass the BALL TO YAO!

AND THAT THERE IS A W!

Go Rockets!

[butter17]

The GT is very funny let's see will ya'll be joking after the series.

[TommyTheCat]

get out of here with that...do that on your own board

-V-

[Anklebreaker702]

GT is hilarius i doubt if the game will be

[TMACFORMVP]

I'm going to be optimistic about this, as I've tried to been all playoffs with my new approach, rather than my old pessimistic ways.

- Scola should move to the C position, with his more "on the body," defense he should do a better job than Yao did when Gasol went on him one on one, not to mention, it's easier to go out on the pick and roll since Scola is more adept to going outside.

- Depends on who we start, if we start Landry at PF, then he'd have to cover either Odom or Ariza, and it's obvious which we'd prefer. He's had a nice game the past two and with an increased role should hopefully continue that play. If we play Artest at PF, and dare I say it, start Wafer? Then we'd have an added punch on the offensive end. We could even go ultra small ball with the two guard lineup and Artest at PF. We'd obviously have to adjust once the Lakers adjust and they go big as well.

- We should reduce the amount of turnovers, our team at times has a low BBall IQ because of how much we try to get Yao the ball which results in turnovers. With no Yao, we shouldn't have to force feed the ball to anyone and thus reduce turnovers.

- More Artest in the post = GOOD for his game. Instead of chucking from the perimeter, we can post him more and take advantage of Ariza not having enough strength to guard him.

- Defensively we become worse, which is our main concern, but we need a concerted effort from our team as a whole and need to ride it out from the energy from our homecourt (LOL).

Who am I kidding? lmao

[highrangeslang]

I actually think we will win at least one more game in the series. Just out of raw effort, I think we'll get one. Remember, a big reason we won game 1 was because of how well the team played when Yao was out. In game two, a big part of our 2nd quarter rally to take the lead after being down 15 was how the Rockets played without Yao.

So it's possible.

[HTown_TMac]

[Danny Darko]

hahah awesome game thread. Good luck.

I feel bad for Yao and the Rox fans. Totally sucks.