<div class="quote_poster">durvasa Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">Italy -> Bargnani, Toronto</div> That was an easy one. <div class="quote_poster">ikulu Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">hi guys, i just signed up, and im a proud houston rocket fan (all the way from vancouver!) too bad they hardly broadcast any live games here. i'll always have to go on youtube to watch the high lights (Thanks to R2K, i dont know who he is though :|)</div> WELCOME! There are many live feeds over the internet for Houston Rockets games. If no one posts one just PM me and I will find one for you. <div class="quote_poster">DaRocket Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">Well, to be honest I am a Rockets fan since the time Moses Malone was playing for us, so Yao and even Hakeem had nothing to do with that. I don't know why, probably because when young I loved a futuristic music band called Les Rockets and when I discovered a NBA Team called Rockets... You know. I am from Torre Del Lago Puccini, home of Giacomo Puccini, a small town close to Pisa and near to Firenze Florence). One of the best beach in Tuscany here and nothing else. Bargnani... Blah! The only Italian player who had some chance to play for good in the NBA was Gianmarco Pozzecco an amazing ankle breaker PG. Unfortunately he never had the chance to play in any NBA team. Joe Bryant (his father) played here in Italy, not Kobe. Probably, the most succesfull american player here was Mike D'Antoni: 12 years and 5 titles.</div> Interesting. How do you watch Rockets games, through FSNSW or just the national games?
<div class="quote_poster">durvasa Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">San Antonio is going to blow us out. Yao struggles against their front court, and they do a good job guarding the paint and also against the three. Our midrange game sucks. If we're to have any chance, Bonzi needs to show up real big. It's unlikely.</div> Shows what I know. Go Rockets!
I'm impressed how Houston was able to manage with Yao on the bench and containing Tim Duncan throughout the game. The Spurs made a decent effort in double-teaming Yao and keeping him away from the ball, but I guess that wasn't enough. Good win for the Rockets here tonight.
<div class="quote_poster">igotask8board Wrote</div><div class="quote_post"> Interesting. How do you watch Rockets games, through FSNSW or just the national games?</div> On Streamtvnow.com every night, sometimes through Sky Sport Italia (few live games, less Rockets games). What is FSNSW? I appreciate more source
Wow!! Great win by the Rockets!! Bonzi looked in control and man handled Flopnobilli in the post!! Hopefully we can take this win and build on it.
Bonzi needs to work on his free throws and some of those passes to Yao were far too low for him to catch. I think tonight the Rockets can bank on the Spurs horrid shooting but if the Rockets want to be a true contendor then they have to be more consistent.
<div class="quote_poster">DaRocket Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">On Streamtvnow.com every night, sometimes through Sky Sport Italia (few live games, less Rockets games). What is FSNSW? I appreciate more source </div> FSNSW stands for "Fox Sports Net Southwest" , it was one of foxsports free channels yrs ago, bt now i heard it mainly focus on cable TV covering homes around Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana; so if u don't live in those states and don't have a satellite TV receiver, it's unlikely u can watch it from italy
<div class="quote_poster">Quoting igotask8board:</div><div class="quote_post">Rockets are desperate for a win without Tracy McGrady...Bonzi will breakout on Manu like he did in the playoffs last season. Rockets win...</div> Good prediction igotask8board. Some fans here don't have faith in there team. coughdurvasacough jk man even I was worried about this game. Bonzi had 15 points on 6-11 shooting with 7 rebounds, 2 steals, and 2 assists. The Rockets squad are very happy to see him succeed with us. DaRocket, FSNSW broadcasts about 90% of the Houston Rockets games for us Houstonians, but you are obviously a bigger Rockets fan than most of us Houstonians, watching games on the net and sleeping at 7 A.M...the only thing I do is base my work schedule on the Rockets schedule, unless it's on 51, then I can watch Rockets games at work. JVG called out our bench and they sure did answer tonight, 38 points.
<div class="quote_poster">igotask8board Wrote</div><div class="quote_post"> DaRocket, FSNSW broadcasts about 90% of the Houston Rockets games for us Houstonians, but you are obviously a bigger Rockets fan than most of us Houstonians, watching games on the net and sleeping at 7 A.M...</div> Well tonight I'm lucky it is "only" 5 AM See you tomorrow night.
JVG gets player of the game Playing JLIII gave a change of pace and led to some good buckets. Bonzi getting good minutes with the ball in his hands, you can see that the best from him is still to come. OBSERVATION: in the 2nd period the whole team looked confident. I think everybody is realizing Yao's greatness and feeding off that confidence. Shane Battier has to be the best transition defender in the game. He effected 2 fastbreak easy baskets by hustling and challenging the shot. Rockets got the ball back both times. He and Juwan hit some big shots to keep the lead going.
<div class="quote_poster">moeinhouston Wrote</div><div class="quote_post"> Shane Battier has to be the best transition defender in the game. He effected 2 fastbreak easy baskets by hustling and challenging the shot. Rockets got the ball back both times. He and Juwan hit some big shots to keep the lead going.</div> I liked how when Shane Battier sensed that his outside shot was off, he was able to step inside the arc and drain a couple of big midrange jumpers for us. He has a great touch on his shot, I just wish he'd be a little more aggressive with it.
<div class="quote_poster">durvasa Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">I liked how when Shane Battier sensed that his outside shot was off, he was able to step inside the arc and drain a couple of big midrange jumpers for us. He has a great touch on his shot, I just wish he'd be a little more aggressive with it.</div> totally agreed. besides, battier helped our team with super def most times. from last 12 consective matches i watched, he let his opponents make at least 1 offense foul each game, usually happened when other team running fast breaks. Sure there are still a couple of scoring machines he cannot defend some nights, bt no doubt he should be one of the righteous pieces for a champion. i'm disappointed such figure was not taken into statistic. ESPN should consider record this sort of data as part of the match preview, not continuing showing our losing history of losing streak games with a big lead in most of the 48mins, which make me embrassed & began to think they re biased
<div class="quote_poster">DaRocket Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">Rockets had something we didn't have till now. Bonzi Wells and a bad night from the other team.</div> Spurs shot over 40% most of the game. I wouldn't consider that a bad night
<div class="quote_poster">lucifer81 Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">totally agreed. besides, battier helped our team with super def most times. from last 12 consective matches i watched, he let his opponents make at least 1 offense foul each game, usually happened when other team running fast breaks. Sure there are still a couple of scoring machines he cannot defend some nights, bt no doubt he should be one of the righteous pieces for a champion. i'm disappointed such figure was not taken into statistic. ESPN should consider record this sort of data as part of the match preview, not continuing showing our losing history of losing streak games with a big lead in most of the 48mins, which make me embrassed & began to think they re biased</div> Interesting observation. That stat is a very valid indicator of the defender's positioning, and can point out the good defenders from the bad ones. It's good to see Howard come off the bench. He fits in very well with Bonzi, and hopefully the duo can keep up their success. Bonzi also seems to be in much better shape compared to his first two games. Also a good decision by JVG to give John Lucas a chance at cracking the rotation, he had a good showing last night.
Sorry for posting late, but we had soooooooo much fun taunting spurs fans on Friday night....the rowdies and other rockets fans took over a whole section in the upper deck.....some of our chants included "spurs are boring, their fans are snoring", "not in our house", "MVP" (for Yao), "Overrated" (Duncan), "Desperate Housewives" (Parker), "Dallas Reject" (Finley), etc....Spurs fans were so pissed at us...THEN when it was over all of the houston fans went stomping out of their arena screaming "Houston Rockets"
