This is a big win, those shots by Roy at the end of the Rockets game seems to have woken him up, and after the 1st half against the Twolves the rest of the team seems to be coming along with him. The momentum from this stuff should keep us pretty hot until Oden comes back, and then that should help lift the team up some more. Let's see another 13 game win streak!
This is where we were last season at this point: 4-3. But then we lost 9 of our next 10. NOT THIS TIME!!!
Nice to be over .500 in the midst of this brutal opening schedule. If Oden can return and play well, they might have a shot at remaining at .500 or above through the remainder of this tough part of their schedule.
I doubt Roy has anything more than a tweak or a spasm ... nothing a little rest and treatment tomorrow shouldn't fix (hopefully). Nice road win!
Man, if we can do work on our road trip and Utah struggles out East without Deron, we could make up some ground in the NW
It was painfully obvious at times just how much this team has been built around Oden. All our guys just love the twenty-foot jumpshot, and for the most part hate to go inside and get dirty. If Oden doesn't play a lot this year I'm not sure we can really succeed, because we won't shoot that well from outside every game, and when we don't we have no answer. Example - That 8 minute stretch tonight where we didn't score a single field-goal. Amazing we won, despite the horrible officiating.
Tonight I would say was partly by design; people that make it a habit to attack the paint against Orlando don't usually enjoy great success.
looking at the boxscore(i didnt get to watch the game), howard seems to have gone off, and got pryz in foul trouble early. 20 free throw attemts for howard is alot, even for him. also, was batum focusing solely on defense? he only took one shot, so i assume he was trying to lock down rashard or turk. whoever was on rashard seems to have shut him down.
I thought I saw in the yahoo play by play that Roy briefly came back in on offense after people on here started freaking out. Did he not? It seemed like they were playing Roy on O and Batum on D for the last two minutes...
An interesting game, and a pleasant surprise. Oh, and call me a homer if you please, but I like the way Outlaw is playing.
Roy came back, but in a lot of visible pain. If they had fouled him, I doubt he could have hit the shots.
