<div align="center"></div> <div align="center"><font color="blue">Washington Wizards</font> VS <font color="red">Houston Rockets</font></div> When: Tuesday February 15th, 8:30 PM (EST)/ 7:30PM (CT) Where: Houston, Toyota Center Local TV: FSN <div align="center">Predicted Starters <font color="purple">Wizards</font> <font size="1"><font face="Arial"><font color="blue">Gilbert Arenas, Jarvis Hayes, Jared Jefferies, Antawn Jamison, Brendan Haywood</font></font></font></div> <div align="center"><font color="red">Rockets</font> <font size="1"><font face="Arial"><font color="red">Bob Sura, David Wesley, Tracy McGrady, Juwan Howard, Yao Ming</font></font></font></div> Keys to The Game For Washington <ul> [*]Gilbert Arenas tears it up, again. Since the injury of Larry Hughes and maybe before that, Gilbert Arenas has been playing like a MVP. He has won games single-handedly, and is having a career year this season. If he can put up 30 and 8, the Wizards should be on their way to a win. [*]Role players help Jamison, Arenas. Antwan Jamison and Arenas can score a combined 50 points any game. However, that isn't enough to win games. The rest of the team, namely Hayes, Jefferies and the bench players, have to combine for another 50 to outscore the Rockets. [*]Drain the outside shot. Almost every player other than center on the Wizards' roster can make the three. The Wizards have to stretch the defense by making their shots from the perimeter to give more space for Arenas to penetrate and for Jamison to work down low. [/list] Keys To The Game For Houston <ul> [*]Defense. The Wizards are a good offensive team, especially when Arenas is on the floor on the break. The Rockets will have to limit their transition points tonight. [*]Yao/McGrady come up big. The duo of Yao Ming and Tracy McGrady always determine the outcome of games. Yao has been on a tear lately and he should go for 25 and 10. If McGrady can come out of his shooting slump, they can combine for 50 and 20, and the Rockets should have an easy time. [*]Ride the streak. Houston has won their last seven games, and luck seemed to be on their side Sunday night as they did everything possible to lose, but still won. If they don't play well again, the Rockets better hope luck is on their side again. [/list] Game Outlook The Rockets are on a seven-game winning streak, and a win here would lead them into the All-Star Break on a winning note. Against the Wizards minus Larry Hughes, the Rockets should take full advantage and ride the streak. As for the Wizards, they are one of the premier teams in the East and must get big nights from everyone in order to pull out a win on the road against a red-hot Rockets team. They will also be on the back-end of a back-to-back, so fatigue might be a factor. Prediction Rockets-105 Wizards-99
rockets gotta play solid ALL game this time. If the rockets get on top they gotta keep it there. You cant give great scoring teams any opportunity to take the lead.
This should be a tough one for Houston. For the last few games, Houston has had trouble keeping the lead while Washington is great at fighting and coming back in the second half. Not a good sign. Anyways, I just hope McGrady can get his rhythm going while Yao just keeps up what he's doing. In addition to that, everyone must do a good job defensively or else players like Jamison and Arenas will make them pay. Prediction- Houston win 102-05.
hope he comes out of it soon, but then again this just shows that even when tmac isnt doing as well other players can step up, i wanna see what happens when tmac gets out of his slump. 97-95 hou
Ugh, I am disgusted by the Wizards loss to the Hornets. I give this one to Houston in a close one..105-100 Can you post this in the Wizard forum, I have a lot of hw to do tomorrow and won't have time to make one.
Well it's time for TMac to be challenged offensively. The Rockets must take advantage against the Wizards who are coming back from a road game last night. It's a must for the Rockets to contain the Wizards' high scoring game. If they do built a large lead, they should take care of it at all cost as we know that the Wizards are capable of scoring from the perimeter efficiently. Rockets by 7
30 minutes to gametime... If Tracy continues his shooting slump i dont think we can win this game That being said however, i think hes due. Rockets 93 Wizards 88
This is great. So far we're doing real well in this game. It's exactly the opposite of the last game which was mediocre at best. good to see the team taking shots n making them. Tracy and Yao are just killing them in this game. It also helps that Arenas isnt playing up to the strandard he has been lately. Keep this scoring up and we should be getting another 120 point game. Just hope they dont blow this lead like the last game.
Final score 123 - 93 Houston's way. WOOHOO!!!! That was our best win in this streak. I didn't get to see the game, I just checked out the score on NBA.com. But it looksl ike we crushed the Wizards like ants. HAHA. The Houston Rockets vs. The Washington Ants. Oh wells, They still aren't showing the box scores. I must see this!!!
I have season pass, the game was domination. In the third quarter we let a 15 point lead slide to 7 or 9 points, that scared me a little, but Padgett and the reserves did a great job.
Great game for Houston. This is how any team should respond to a bad win. They came out shooting and knocking down shots, which is why Houston took this one. McGrady seems like he's finally gotten out of his slump while Yao keeps up his A plus game. A great sign for any Houston fan. In addition to that, Howard and Wesley both had great games, scoring big for Houston and showing that they add a lot of depth to the team. As for Sura, there's not much to say. He had a bad night with turnovers, shooting, and just about everything else. All I can say is to hope him best with the games after the All-Star break. Oh yeah, that goes for the entire team too. I hope they keep up the momentum after the All-Star break and bring us a couple of wins.
WOW! houston just beat the crap ot of washington, they must still have a hangover over the New Orleans loss hehe
What a victory by the Rockets. Almost everyone is on fire. They shot the ball well and gave out a lot of assists. The Wizards look tired in the 4th quarter while TMac is burning them. If they can carry over this shooting touch in the next game against the Sonics, they will be tough to beat. It's a good thing the Rockets took their break a day earlier. It will give a lot of time for everyone to rest especially Bobby Sura who I think needs it most.
Woah didn't expect a win by this much, I didn't get to see the game at all so from looking at the boxscore it seems the whole team played REALLY good, the only thing i'm dissapointed about is that Juwan only had 3 rebounds, but he did get 18 points, anyway great game hopefully we can play like this vs Seattle!
We RULE 8 straight WINS and we shot 59%!!!!I hope we could keep this going after the allstar break too
