Cleveland Cavaliers: 12-11 Houston Rockets: 13-15 Coach (Paul Silas) C ? Zydrunas Ilgauskas PF ? Drew Gooden SF ? Lebron James SG ? Jeff Mcinnis PG ? Ira Newble Coach (Jeff Van Gundy) C - Yao Ming PF - Juwan Howard SF ? Jon Barry SG - Tracy Mcgrady PG - Bob Sura After a horrible loss against the Bucks, the rockets still look to edge closer to their .500 record. The Cavs are not an easy team, this will be the first time the Rockets face the Cavs this season? This will not be an very difficult match for the Houston Rockets. They really really have to find away to stop Lebron from dominating the game, which won?t be easy because we don?t have our best perimeter defensive player anymore, do we? Same goes for the cavs really, except replace Lebrons name with T-Macs, they also have to stop Yao from getting easy baskets and not give out any easy shots. This match like I said before is a very difficult match, to be honest with you I don?t think we can win this, but this will be the first match David Wesley will play in for us, hopefully he can prove to us it was a quality trade? Prediction 104-88 Cavaliers by 14 Sorry I had to rush this!
Nice preview Dan Le. Cleveland is faltering a bit but are still coming off a victory against Atlanta. Meanwhile, the Rockets might just be too downhearted after getting blown out at Milwaukee last night. Although we get David Wesley tonight, he might not gel with us right away. It might be hard to win this game tonight. Cavaliers by 8.
James out for the game, we might have a chance now.. Wesley, Imo, hasn't looked good, hopefully it's a minor thing.. At the moment, we can win this easily.. Cut down the TOs - establish Yao. Rockets win 96-91
Poor game for Wesley, but its just his first game so hopefully this was just a one time thing, the rest of the team played well!, Juwan Howard really impressed me this game and also Bob Sura with all of his assists, T-Mac altho didn't shoot that well did make 34 points, Yao ming as well with his blocks and also Mutumbo with 9 rebounds in 13 mins! Heres how the team did in boxscores...
Game's already over? Seems like a good night by McGrady, and a bad one for Wesley. It's good to see that Sura had 12 assists. Juwan Howard also did good off the bench, from what I can tell from the box score. Now let's hope we can win two straight.
Sorry, those weren't the starting lineups, I just took them after the game finished, so that was the lineup when the match finished.
Wow Impresive by the rockets and they won on the road by 11 points amazing they were knocking down shots and mo taylor kinda helped and wesley wasnt that and he plays good defence and the team is starting of good from they're loss yesterday. and Julio Lebron was running and he hit is eye into Mutombo's Elbow (yea Mutombo!)
Yugo i didnt understand a word of that post. Lebron got a concussion, something about a left orbital contusion. i just hope that his eyes are messed up, if Lebron hadnt got injured the rockets would have been screwed.
Glad Howard had a good night. He was like this last year averaging around 15 ppg. Wesley obviously didn't have a great game but this was his first game and hopefully he will have a good one the next time.
<div class="quote_poster">Quoting Dan Le:</div><div class="quote_post">http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=1955399 is what happened, on his birthday too, dayum...</div> Must be a wake-up call to remind him that he isn't a teen no more.
Nice game by the Rockets. We completely dominated them in every aspect of the game. However, Lebron was out, and that probably made the big difference. He's basically their core player, so I guess that effected how their team gelled. Anyways, we had some nice performances by Howard and Sura. Hopefully, their great playing will continue and lead them over some other wins on the road. As for the first game of Wesley in Rockets uniform, it was lackluster. However, he still needs to adapt to the Van Gundy aspect of everything. That will probably take a long time though. Hopefully, he can learn it well and contribute consistently on a nightly basis.
Good game tonight , we were rotating the ball well. Once Wesley gets some playing time, and gets fit into the offense, he will be playing better.
pretty good game for houston. T-Mac and Yao had good games. So did Juwon Howard. This is what we need Howard to do. Atleast on teams without dominant pfs. Sura was a pg today dishing out 12 asst. And damn these sophmores better watch out. Anthony and LeBron both got taken out of the game by us. Becareful Wade.
We Also had 48 Percent Shooting and even though lebron james was still on court we wouldnt of lost i mean cmon he attempted 5 shots and missed all of them and only made a couple of free throws and thats how he only got 3 points in the first half.
<div class="quote_poster">Quoting YugoRocketsfan:</div><div class="quote_post">We Also had 48 Percent Shooting and even though lebron james was still on court we wouldnt of lost i mean cmon he attempted 5 shots and missed all of them and only made a couple of free throws and thats how he only got 3 points in the first half.</div> So what? 5 shots OMG!, so he had a slow start, but he had something like 5 assists didn't he?, he also might of done things on court that don't appear in boxscores, without him on the team in the second half maybe the Cavs lost confidence, you can't just assume that he scored 3pts in the first half so if he played he would of finished with 6pts, thats stupid and ignorant.
