Didn't watch many rockets games this year, so I was surprised how dominating Howard was, holy shit he was scoring at will pretty much. Why they didn't go to him more often who knows, and who cares!
He has definitely improved since his days in Orlando, and you can see the effect that Hakeem has had. There were some moves that had Dream flavor.
I thought rolo could at least hold his own with him but it was like playing against a little kid or something, felt bad for the big fella. Tough, TOUGH matchup for him. But as they say, SCOREBOARD BABY!
It's tough to defend Dwight when he's A) allowed to camp in the key and B) use his shoulder to dislodge you. They let Shaq get away with the same shit.
Howard being dominate like that proves to be a weakness for the rest of the team, they arn't engaged and lose their touch. Harden was going crazy in stride and if they didn't feed Howard in the post every single play in the 4th then he could have killed us for sure. THANK GOODNESS they fed their beast for 2 and not killed us outside for 3. Making it out of this round with Houston...has made us a BETTER team. We STILL haven't played our best basketball. We have yet to string together 48 minutes of 100% Blazer Ball. <---- This is encouraging! LA was asked at the end of the game by Mike "What is the one thing you learned from this series you will take to the next?" LA thought for a second and said "That every possession counts". If we truly play an every possession counts game come the semi's...then it will be in the headlines when we advance to the WCF "Portland destroys the state of Texas en-route to the WCF"
