[red]Preview by Umair[/red] <div align="center"> <font color="red">Rockets (21-12)</font> vs <font color="green">T-Wolves (16-15)</font> Sunday, January 7th, 2007, Target Center, Minnesota 2:30 Central; FSNSW, SportsRadio 610 AM </div> [div=50%] <div align="center"><font color="red"> <font size="1">(R. Alston, T. McGrady, S. Battier, J. Howard, D. Mutombo)</font></font> <font size="1">Leading Scorer: Tracy McGrady - 21.7 PPG Leading Rebounder: Chuck Hayes - 6.9 RPG Assists Leader: Tracy McGrady - 5.8 APG </font></div> [/div] <div align="center"><font color="green"> <font size="1">(M. James, T. Hassell, R. Davis, K. Garnett, D. Mutombo)</font></font> <font size="1">Leading Scorer: Kevin Garnett - 22.3 PPG Leading Rebounder: Kevin Garnett - 12.4 RPG Assists Leader: Kevin Garnett/Mike James - 4.3 APG </font> </div> [div=50%] <div align="center"> <font size=""1""><font color="red">Luther Head (6th Man)</font></font></div> <font size="1"><div align="center">28.2 MPG, 11.0 PPG, 3.5 RPG, 2.6 APG</div></font> [/div] <div align="center"> <font size=""1""><font color="green">Randy Foye (6th Man)</font></font> <font size="1">26.3 MPG, 8.5 PPG, 2.1 RPG, 2.0 APG</font> Predictions: <font color=""Red"">Rockets 93</font>, T-Wolves 87</div> Keys To The Game: <font color=""Red"">Rockets:</font> Let Tmac keep his numbers up, give Howard some help with KG, <font color=""Red"">let Luther Head hit another 3!! </font> <font color=""Green"">T-Wolves:</font> Keep Tmac from scoring more than 30, let KG bust his numb Talk about the game here.. I think that if T-Mac keeps up his hot shooting they're defense wont work on him.. Last meeting they doubled him alot and did a good job so we'll see wat happends in about an hour and a half.
Rockets have been hot lately thanks to some stellar play by Tracy McGrady. I think Houston is going to come away with this one but it should be a good game.
This will be tough. Minnesota has won 4 straight at home, including wins over San Antonio and Chicago. Minnesota has a 10-5 home record, we have a 9-9 road record. Both teams play it relatively slowly, and are solid defensively. McGrady's string of great games all came at home, so going out on the road might affect his rhythm. Plus, we have no one who can effectively guard Kevin Garnett and Deke will have a tougher time being an inside presence defensively with Mark Blount hanging out at 18 feet from the basket. This will be our toughest challenge, and the schedule seems to only get tougher. I have to give the Wolves an edge in this one.
<div align="center"> <font color="red">Rockets (15-9)</font> vs <font color="green">T-Wolves (16-15)</font> Sunday, January 7th, 2007, Target Center, Minnesota 2:30 Central; FSNSW, SportsRadio 610 AM </div> [div=50%] <div align="center"><font color="red"> <font size="1">(R. Alston, T. McGrady, S. Battier, J. Howard, D. Mutombo)</font></font> <font size="1">Leading Scorer: Tracy McGrady - 21.7 PPG Leading Rebounder: Chuck Hayes - 6.9 RPG Assists Leader: Tracy McGrady - 5.8 APG </font></div> [/div] <div align="center"><font color="green"> <font size="1">(M. James, T. Hassell, R. Davis, K. Garnett, D. Mutombo)</font></font> <font size="1">Leading Scorer: Kevin Garnett - 22.3 PPG Leading Rebounder: Kevin Garnett - 12.4 RPG Assists Leader: Kevin Garnett/Mike James - 4.3 APG </font> </div> [div=50%] <div align="center"> <font size=""1""><font color="red">Luther Head (6th Man)</font></font></div> <font size="1"><div align="center">28.2 MPG, 11.0 PPG, 3.5 RPG, 2.6 APG</div></font> [/div] <div align="center"> <font size=""1""><font color="green">Randy Foye (6th Man)</font></font> <font size="1">26.3 MPG, 8.5 PPG, 2.1 RPG, 2.0 APG</font> Predictions: <font color=""Red"">Rockets 93</font>, T-Wolves 87</div> Keys To The Game: <font color=""Red"">Rockets:</font> Let Tmac keep his numbers up, give Howard some help with KG, <font color=""Red"">let Luther Head hit another 3!! </font> <font color=""Green"">T-Wolves:</font> Keep Tmac from scoring more than 30, let KG bust his numbers on Howard, work the frontcourt.
I can't watch it, cause I'm at work, but I have it recording @ home.....can someone keep me updated once every quarter?
Rockets are down by 43-37. They are doubling up on Tmac, and he can't seem to get his streak going shooting 4-11, and Alston is missing. Garnett has 10 points, he hit his last 3 shots. And Luther's streak for 3 pointers might end here.
Decent effort by the team. Had a bunch of open looks that just didn't go down. For us to be as close as we were with McGrady and Alston struggling that bad, that ain't bad.
oh man..we lost..Thats 0-2 against the T-wolves this year. I'm serious, we won't ever be as successful as we should because of Rafer's shooting. Don't get me wrong, Rafer is a good point guard, its just that he can't flat out SHOOT. That's all we need from our role players, players who can goddamn SHOOT.
Why is that we can beat good teams like Jazz and stuff but lose to sorry or ok teams like TWolves and Blazers? When we get a chance to play these ok teams, we should be able to blow them out. Alston on a little slump these days.
<div class="quote_poster">Umair Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">Why is that we can beat good teams like Jazz and stuff but lose to sorry or ok teams like TWolves and Blazers? When we get a chance to play these ok teams, we should be able to blow them out. Alston on a little slump these days.</div> When has he not been on a slump? He said during the summer that he worked on his shot and so far I'm not seeing that at all. He just can't shoot the ball period.
<div class="quote_poster">Umair Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">Why is that we can beat good teams like Jazz and stuff but lose to sorry or ok teams like TWolves and Blazers? When we get a chance to play these ok teams, we should be able to blow them out. Alston on a little slump these days.</div> The Jazz have a worse road record than the Wolves's home record.
<div class="quote_poster">Eduardo Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">When has he not been on a slump? He said during the summer that he worked on his shot and so far I'm not seeing that at all. He just can't shoot the ball period.</div> I remember in the beggining of the year, his shot was pretty good, and Bill Worrell was talking about how his shot got better. He's been struggling these days though. <div class="quote_poster">durvasa Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">The Jazz have a worse road record than the Wolves's home record.</div> It dont matter, Jazz have a better record than us. What I meant was that we beat teams with a better record than us and lose to teams with a worser recored than ours.
Van Gundy dissappoints me. There is no way a player should be in the game long enuff to go 0-10. We have too many 3pt shooters for our point guard to be left in the game shooting like that. It's seems JVG makes all the right subs defensively, but offensively he's rather dumbfounded.
<div class="quote_poster">Eduardo Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">oh man..we lost..Thats 0-2 against the T-wolves this year. I'm serious, we won't ever be as successful as we should because of Rafer's shooting. Don't get me wrong, Rafer is a good point guard, its just that he can't flat out SHOOT. That's all we need from our role players, players who can goddamn SHOOT.</div> Acctuallly we are 1-2 against the Wolves this season. We beat them the first time we met when Battier shot 5/5 from the 3 point line. --- KG had an impressive performance yesterday. 26 pts 13 reb 5 ast He does whatever it takes for his team to win whether it's playing D, scoring, blocking, passing, or rebounding. The Wolves just played stellar defense in the last two time we met them. They had zero fouls in the fourth quarter (unless some came in garbage time) and limited there turnovers. Umair, this is the NBA. Some nights good teams play like the Knicks, some nights the Knicks play like the Spurs. Some nights the weaker team plays with more determination to win. If anything, this season we are beating the okay-bad teams and losing to the good teams which shows we can play with some consistency unlike the 04-05season where we would beat Phoenix, Spurs, Miami only to lose a 20 point lead to the Bobcats the next night.
