vBookie Event: Utah Jazz vs. Houston Rockets (NBA)

**Yao Mania** · 01-27-2008, 06:16 PM

looks like game over. No Yao, so no surprise really...

Quite surprised to see Novak get minutes, shows Adelman is a flexible coach

Krimzon · 01-27-2008, 06:21 PM

If Yao is not playing, it means that our chances of losing is greater. I'm surprise Deke didn't play.

**OneBadLT123** · 01-27-2008, 06:55 PM

Yeah, wtf no deke?

hroz · 01-27-2008, 07:15 PM

Yeah I dont think we will see Deke again in the rotation.
Just a feeling I have.

Legend-Like · 01-27-2008, 07:45 PM

Steve Novak was awesome tonight. All thats really needs to be said in this game.

rocketeer · 01-27-2008, 07:55 PM

i wish aaron brooks would get more minutes.

and i'd rather not see mutumbo play. seems like scola/hayes/landry are all better so why should mutumbo see any minutes?

**Hakeem** · 01-28-2008, 12:31 AM

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Originally Posted by unluckyseventeen

I honestly don't understand why Houston's offense is so bad. They have a bunch of very good 3-point shooters. Infact, they'd probably be better running an outside-in offense, shooting 3's like mad and tossing it inside on missed rotations.

That would work out horribly. These guys struggle to hit 40% of wide open threes. That percentage would plummet if shots were just chucked up without the defense drawn to the interior. I mean, how are Alston or Battier or Head going to get a shot off without fading away from 25 feet?

**Hakeem** · 01-28-2008, 12:33 AM

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Originally Posted by rocketeer

i'd rather not see mutumbo play. seems like scola/hayes/landry are all better so why should mutumbo see any minutes?

Neither Scola, Hayes or Landry can protect the rim. Our interior defense looks terrible when Yao isn't on the floor.

**HayesFan** · 01-28-2008, 07:40 AM

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Originally Posted by Legend-Like

Steve Novak was awesome tonight. All thats really needs to be said in this game.

Are you serious? Novak was good in the 3rd qtr. In the fourth his defense was a big part of the reason we lost.

**Pimped Out** · 01-28-2008, 08:51 AM

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Originally Posted by HayesFan

Are you serious? Novak was good in the 3rd qtr. In the fourth his defense was a big part of the reason we lost.

I didnt get to watch this game, but you should be able to put one defensive liability on the floor without letting the opposition score on 13 straight possessions.

And I agree with Hakeem. Deke's ability to protect the rim is important when Yao is out.

**HayesFan** · 01-28-2008, 09:25 AM

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Originally Posted by Pimped Out

I didnt get to watch this game, but you should be able to put one defensive liability on the floor without letting the opposition score on 13 straight possessions.

And I agree with Hakeem. Deke's ability to protect the rim is important when Yao is out.

Normally I would say that would be true.. but we didn't have one. We had at least two. Novak and Landry together couldn't cover on pick and roll help and recover. A couple of times Tmac was slow to get around the pnr and then decided to tell Novak to switch, which didn't help either.

The defense in the 4th was non existent on about 90% of the plays.

jdiggidy · 01-28-2008, 09:56 AM

We have got to get rid of TMac. After the game he was quoted as saying words to the affect of "I didn't want to score all the points with Yao out because guys wouldn't be able to get in a rythm". WTF! We lost because you only scored 21. TRADE TMAC NOW!

**Dean the Master** · 01-28-2008, 07:23 PM

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vBookie Event: Utah Jazz vs. Houston Rockets (NBA)

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