Houston´s Resurrection

[waly.mg]

With the last 10 games with 8 win and 2 loses, now Houston is 3 games behind the Lakers for the last PO Place and a posible 1st round match up with the Spurs

What do you think, Kobe or T-Mac ......... ? Bruce is waiting


i want the lakers and you?

[spurs_fan_in_exile]

I'd rather have the Lakers. The Rockets are a team that if healthy (which they haven't been all season, but could be by May) could take the Spurs to six or seven, especially since the Spurs get out of the gate slow in the playoffs. No one has seen the best that Houston is capable of yet, while with the Lakers it's the Kobe show and not much else.

[FromWayDowntown]

The Rockets resurgence means three more tough games down the stretch for the Spurs, who have the Rockets in San Antonio once and in Houston twice in the last 20 games of the season.

[MoSpur]

I don't fear Houston nor the Lakers. Houston doesn't have anything when it comes to a seven game series and neither does Los Angeles.

[BigVee]

McGrady will go down again.

[101A]

The Rockets resurgence means three more tough games down the stretch for the Spurs, who have the Rockets in San Antonio once and in Houston twice in the last 20 games of the season.


Only Houston plays .500 ball on the road & .375 at HOME. :drunk

[ChumpDumper]

They still aren't at full strength either. If they can hold of the injury bug a bit, they could do more damage than the Lakers, certainly. With Head, Hayes and Bogans, they have some nice young players to throw in with the experienced vets.

[himat]

i have a feeling the grizz will fall out and houston will get in. grizzlies have lost a lot of games, and have dropped to the 7th seed.

[FromWayDowntown]

Only Houston plays .500 ball on the road & .375 at HOME. :drunk

To this point. If the Rockets get rolling, though, those numbers in the smaller set of more recent games will look much better.

[leemajors]

houston has had some injuries to key players. they also play the spurs pretty closely.

[BigVee]

We'll see how they do v. the Suns tonight

[Joepa]

The Rockets are a whole lot scarier than the Lakers. Give me the Lakers any day of the week for two reasons:

1. The Lakers do not have near the talent that a healthy Rockets team does
2. It's always good to kick the purple and gold's collective asses on the way to another championship

[101A]

rather have lakers...big time

yao is having his best 3-4 game stretch.....EVER

26.7 Pts, 15.7 Rb, 55.3 FG%
[last 3 games]

So, looking at this logically; the Rockets being, potentially MUCH better than there record indicates (didn't realize Yao was playing like that) - and that team living up to its preseason hype (finally).

A reasonable person could list these teams in the top 6 in the NBA (no order):

Rockets
Heat
Suns
Pistons
Mavs
Spurs

Spurs could have to play FOUR of those to win a ring!

Bring it.

[ploto]

I was just telling someone last night-- the #1 seed could very well draw a surging Rockets team. They played great down the stretch last year as well- remember??

[101A]

spurs basically played four divison leaders last year...nuggets were on fire

nuggets sonics suns pistons


Yeah, but Rockets or Mavs were probably a tougher out than Denver or even Seattle (don't know maybe remembering it wrong)...

Would be nice to slip to number 2 seed, ya know:

Memphis, Denver/Ok City...not really right, is it?

[kobe_bryant]

i wouldnt want to play the lakers either

rockets a much easier path

[Joepa]

Rockets > > > > Lakers

[Spurologist]

No second round T-mac and Kobe-show sound more like TV programs than playoff worthiness

[Rummpd]

Watch out for the Kings as well.

[totalspurshomer]

Did a little research on Yao's numbers this year before and after his foot(toe)surgery.

Before...28 games, 13 W's 15 L's, 33 mins/game, 19.7 ppg(on 13.9 shots), 8.5 rpg, 1.4 bpg,

After...13 games, 10 W's 3 L's, 33 mpg, 20.7 ppg(on 15.5 shots), 10.6 rpg, 1.8 bpg

Looks like Yao was already headed for a nice year after finally getting rest from the Chinese team duties for most of the offseason. Read somewhere that his teammates say he was playing with some heavy duty pain with the toe thing. Never whined about it, but the team finally shut him down and had the surgery done. They say the surgery has allowed him to move around in the post alot easier...more boards and blocks I guess.

He just got the NBA player of the week with 26.7 ppg and 15.7 rpg. Looks like they might be on the way back, although most of the 10-3 was against suspect competition. We'll see what happens as their schedule gets tough the rest of the way.

Hopefully they make it to the playoffs(Go Texas Teams). Either way, it's nice to see Yao become a legit 20-10 player. He's gotten bashed pretty heavily for being so overhyped. He's a very "Spurs-like" NBA citizen so it'd be nice to see people ease up and stop hatin' on the guy. He's been slow getting to this point, but who knows, maybe he'll keep improving and be a 24-12 guy when all is said and done.

[totalspurshomer]

Update...just lost to Phoenix by 17, but Yao has another big game:

36 mins, 27 pts(10 for 19), 18 rebounds, 5 assists, 1 stl

[SpursIndonesia]

Another strong performance by Yao tonite 27 Pts 17 Rbs, got help from Juwan too, too bad the rest of team sucked, with TMac led the way, as his head is somewhere else :rolleyes

[slayermin]

Houston is tough. That one seed in the west may not be all it's cracked up to be. Still, I would prefer the Spurs to be have homecourt thru out the playoffs, even if that means playing a damn good Houston team.

[orhe]

yeah nice to see yao play up to his real ability

[MI21]

Spurs have showen they have trouble scoring against the Rockets before, while they have had no trouble beating post-Shaq Lakers.

I'll take the Lakers, plus the Spurs would get the added satisfaction of another sweep against them :)

[1Parker1]

The way I see it, the key to beating the Lakers and Rockets is the same: Stop Kobe for the Lakers and stop McGrady for the Rockets. Personally, I think Bruce will have an easier time "Shutting down" McGrady than Kobe, I don't think McGrady's been playing that well lately since his injury and "personal problems."

[Chris]

The way I see it, the key to beating the Lakers and Rockets is the same: Stop Kobe for the Lakers and stop McGrady for the Rockets. Personally, I think Bruce will have an easier time "Shutting down" McGrady than Kobe, I don't think McGrady's been playing that well lately since his injury and "personal problems."

I agree, I would rather take the Rockets. Yao gets tired in the later half of the season and McGrady has had many problems. Unless T-Mac drops four 3-balls on us in the final 2 minutes of the game like last year, we could easily take Houston in 5.

[1Parker1]

^:flipoff Thanks for reminding us of that 13 points in 35 seconds fiasco. :lol

[whottt]

^:flipoff Thanks for reminding us of that 13 points in 35 seconds fiasco. :lol



I remember that one...I remember it because it took a miracle(and Devin Brown forgetting how to call a time out) for them to get their only win against us last year...

I also remember whipping the crap out of them without Tim Duncan...

The Rockets were a tough matchup for the Mavs and that's about it...they weren't as good as any of the teams we played in the playoffs.

And they aren't that good this year either...

[Ed Helicopter Jones]

The Rockets won't make the playoffs.

Write it down now.

[Melmart1]

I am just not convinced that the Rockets will play the same in the playoffs as they are now. I haven't seen them play in awhile, but I am not sure a 10-game stretch is an indicator of a resurgence or just a fluke. Guess it depends on the teams they played and if it continues.

That being said, I will reserve judgement, but the Rockets only scare me a little more than the Lakers at this point. Still plenty of time till the playoffs start.

[Chris]

The Rockets won't make the playoffs.

Write it down now.

I think just about any NBA fan with an I.Q. over 50 realized that a month ago.