Game 1: @ Lakers 930pm TNT

[DEEP3CL]

Good win by your Rockets, I thought we could expose some of the Rockets flaws but we never took advantage when Howard went to the bench.

You guys are gonna need some more depth to compete, having no back up for Dwight or Beverly will do them in down the road. Against the better teams with depth you have to match that. It was easy tonight because the Lakers are just patching this team together. We lack pg's and sf's.

But mainly we have to build our identity. People harp on the " don't shoot 3's ", it's not that we're not going to shoot them it's just that we have to get them in the flow of what we're going to do to control tempo. Last season we shot 3 after 3 after 3 and it causes the tempo to be out of whack and rendered our bigs useless.

And that whole Howard-Kobe elbow stuff was just kids play. Anyway good luck on the season.

[kam_soluusar]

Go Rockets. I was at work, so I missed the game, I will always take a win over the Lakers. Simply put, they suck, and will be lucky to make the Playoffs.

[Nebula1]

Very solid win and I loved how they approached the contest.. all business. I admit I didn't watch the 4Q and I feel just awful for Julius Randle.

Terrence came to play and Troy got his bricks out (hopefully).

On to the next one!

[moofs]

http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/players/5383/

wtf
black is not even 6'9" with shoes and they list him as 6'11"?????

Marginally weird. But yeah, I thought he was 6'11" because of that too.

Lakers crushed, per expectation. On to a real challenge and fear the Asikbrow.


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[moofs]

flagrant one? league is getting weak

Barkley should have rolled some clips of him swinging elbows with no call for 25 minutes in the postgame.


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this is what i saw last night only watched 3 quarters because i work overnight 12am


good =

t jones had some great rebounds
ariza veryyyyyyy solid
terry making key buckets
mvp of the game james harden making it look easy

bad

tjones shooting 3s
mchale leaving howard early in the game when he had 2 fouls when he knows we dont have a backup 5
t black and dmo did nothing
papa not making shoots

lakers

lin had some silly turnovers like always
j hill did not improve looks soft

i dont think the rockets played well was more the lakers being a very bad team

a win is a win ill take it

[tha_rock220]

this is what i saw last night only watched 3 quarters because i work overnight 12am


good =

t jones had some great rebounds
ariza veryyyyyyy solid
terry making key buckets
mvp of the game james harden making it look easy

bad

tjones shooting 3s
mchale leaving howard early in the game when he had 2 fouls when he knows we dont have a backup 5
t black and dmo did nothing
papa not making shoots

lakers

lin had some silly turnovers like always
j hill did not improve looks soft

i dont think the rockets played well was more the lakers being a very bad team

a win is a win ill take it

McHale's policy should be to bench Jones every time he brings the ball up the floor or tries a jab step three.

[Nebula1]

^Jones played great.. even if he missed a couple 3s.

[inquisitive]

kostas needs to work on his 3s, but i like his moves toward the rim...dmo was bad last night. harden looked very passive during that stretch in 3rd qt. Offense needs some work, but the defense is good. Still have issues with rebounding ...giving up 2nd chance rebounds like last yr. Don't think they will ever get their FT shooting down.

[inquisitive]

^Jones played great.. even if he missed a couple 3s.

he needs to work on short range jumpers....3s are out of his range, but a very good game from him last nite.