I have made the preview and it is in the Rockets forum. Clipper fans can comment about it here or in my preview thread
The Clippers will play a hard fought game, like always Brand will come out and get a double double and play hard, but I say Houston by 7. The Clippers downfall will be the lack of defense and the fact that Yao is in the middle and has been averaging 29.5 ppg in the last week.
Clippers lost to Hoston 90-85, I predicted a 7 points loss, so I was pretty close on this one. The Rockets had very balanced scoring and even though the Clippers held them to 41% shooting won this game. The game changer wa freethrows, the Rockets went to the line 33 times to the Clippers 20. They also made 25 free throws to the Clippers 16. The Clips were also outrebounded 40-36. Yao didn't shoot so well, but made 11-12 from the line. Francis had a good game with 24 points on 10-15 shooting and dshed out 7 assists and also got 5 steals to match his season high in steals.
