Bring on the Rockets...

Right?

 

Not sure how I feel about this; I think we'll be okay if we secure home court advantage tonight.

 

We are deep enough to contain Yao, I just hope that Roy isnt contained by Artest/Battier

 

They're a bad matchup for us.

Artest and Battier are physical with Roy, and Hayes and Scola are the same with Aldridge.

Our bench has to step WAY up for us to win. Let's hope we get HCA, and sneak out in 6 or 7.

 

The thing that I don't like is the pressure being on us in the first two games.

 

We need to review how Dallas ran the pick and roll against HOU--that was the difference in the game.

 

potentially; assuming we win tonight.

 

Fucking New Orleans.

 

Yao and Scola are going to murder us. We need to play out of our minds when we're at Houston. Damn Hornets!

 

Now we get to see how good of a game planner Nate is. Can he come up with a scheme to make the Rockets pay for the way they defend Roy and Aldridge.

 

I think we'll be ok, provided we hold serve at home (if we have HCA).

 

It's not like we have a choice, so there's only one thing for it.

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The one nice thing about playing Houston is the pressure might just be on them to get out of the first round...

 

HCA is sooo key right now. With it, we can do this. Without... we're really in trouble.

 

Houston was probably the last team I wanted us to (realistically) go up against. We needed a prayer 3 to beat them in Portland, but I think we're also a better team than we were then. How in the world are we going to stop their front court? Oh well. Go Blazers!

 

first game on Saturday?

 

With history being on our side in having Houston not getting out of the first round in nearly a decade combined with the stellar way we've been playing, I'm not as scared about playing Houston as I might have been a few weeks ago.

 

true

 

Roy and Aldridge aren't going to have a lot of games like they did tonight.