lucky777s

I thought TJ had an amazing first Q, playing at a slower pace and setting up the offence. But in the third Q he fell back into bad habits and the O never flowed. Lucky he made that one 3 pt shot because he was forced to take it after wasting the whole clock away. Bargs came in early in the 3rd after his hot first half and TJ didn't get him a single shot.

Dixon was playing pretty hard on D. He was very energetic getting around screens and showed he can use his quicks on D to stick with guys. He is just too short to bother TMac on the release but Mo and AP arent' stopping that either when TMac is on. I was pleasantly surprised by his D.

Seeing Dix and Hump on the floor together is a little scary because both can be black holes for the ball. Tonight it worked.

Bosh's stats weren't much to look at but he had a very good game, especially early to set the tone. Good bounce back game for him. Big assist numbers.

Bargs looked supremely confident out there. A real wow game from him. Just gets better and better all the time. Eventually I would like to see him get to the FT line more which will bump up his scoring average big time.

Victor Page

The Dixon on McGrady matchup was an odd choice for Sam but you can't argue with the result. T-Mac made a 3-4 fadeaway jumpers from 15-17 feet - there's no defender in the league that can take those shots away from him.

Dixon made T-Mac work hard to get the ball, and may have tired him out (T-Mac took tons of plays off on both ends of the court - he may still be feeling the flu).

My best guess is that Joey Grahame wasn't practising hard recently- so Sam didn't even give him any garbage time.

Overall, I get the impression Sam doesn't care about matchups - he'll put Garbo on Lebron, Dixon on T-Mac, Bargnani on Dirk, etc....Maybe he just says "shoot, nobody can stop those guys without help anyway, I'm just going to put my best overall line-up on the floor and see what happens".

How can you argue with the coach of the month?

Victor Page

Wait....maybe you can argue against putting Bosh back in the game with 4 minutes left and the Raps up by 20?

And leaving Bosh in late in San Antonio with the Raps down by 25?

This is a long week - they need Bosh to kill it in the 4th quarter against
Cleveland on Saturday. I know he's young but why put your franchise player on the court in extreme garbage time? Pape Sow, Uros Slokar, Kris Humphries, etc.... should take the minutes.

Is it because Bosh cares about his stats? I didn't think he was that type of player.

Junkyard Dog13

Why bosh so li,mted tou7ches in the Post, the Rockets had really no one that could defend Bosh Down low, not happy with the numbers b/c of fantast but a win on the road is big and no 2 game losing streak to 2 west power teams.

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Benis007

if Kris Humphries died today, his performance last night was more than worth Hoffa.

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