<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">Leslie Alexander, who can always control himself during a game, could not. Perhaps he knew that there was no point in trying, but he could keep his seat and straight face no longer. The Kid King was on display, if not at the top of his game. But the Rockets owner saw Tracy McGrady turn back into Tracy McGrady. He watched Jon Barry out-LeBron LeBron James. He saw Dikembe Mutombo hit James with something more impressive than one of his rock-hard elbows. Alexander could not help but let his inner Mark Cuban come bubbling out. So with the Rockets exploding through a wild 12-0 fourth-quarter run to turn a close game into a 99-80 rout of the Cleveland Cavaliers on Thursday night, Alexander jumped in front of his courtside seat, beaming with his arms raised triumphantly. "You don't see the owner do that too much, do you?" Rockets guard Bob Sura said. "If we get the owner pretty fired up making those kinds of plays, you know we're on top of our game." McGrady had driven himself from his five-game shooting slump. After making 30 percent of his shots in those games, he attacked the basket and regained his touch, hitting 11 of 21 shots to score 31 points in front of a sellout crowd of 18,208 at Toyota Center. James could not find his shot, making just 7 of 22 attempts for his 19 points, most from the perimeter. But the Rockets took off when he challenged Mutombo with 8:31 to play. Mike James had nailed a 3-pointer to start the run. But the sudden pyrotechnics began when LeBron took off on a drive with Mutombo stepping up to swat away his shot and begin the 90 seconds that changed the game irrevocably. "He knew I was coming," Mutombo said. "I was telling Tracy this morning, 'Don't worry about guarding him. If he's going to drive to the basket, he's going to have No. 55 in his eyes.' "We knew he didn't want to come in there. That's why he was taking all those jumpers. I was waiting on him."</div> Source
Wow funny i was just about to post this. Best part of the article, rofl. <div class="quote_poster">Quoting shapecity:</div><div class="quote_post"> "He knew I was coming," Mutombo said. "I was telling Tracy this morning, 'Don't worry about guarding him. If he's going to drive to the basket, he's going to have No. 55 in his eyes.' "We knew he didn't want to come in there. That's why he was taking all those jumpers. I was waiting on him." </div> Here is a similar article
Mutombo has been one of our greatest spark plugs off the bench this season. It might sound funny for a 55-year old to be a sparkplug, but he brings so much energy on defense and the offensive boards. It has been a great pleasure to have him on our team backing Yao up; it's certainly a luxury. We also have to give Carroll Dawson credit for making the deal to bring Deke here, and also the mid season trades that have helped us in so many ways.
<div class="quote_poster">Quoting Trip:</div><div class="quote_post">Mutombo has been one of our greatest spark plugs off the bench this season. It might sound funny for a 55-year old to be a sparkplug, but he brings so much energy on defense and the offensive boards. It has been a great pleasure to have him on our team backing Yao up; it's certainly a luxury. We also have to give Carroll Dawson credit for making the deal to bring Deke here, and also the mid season trades that have helped us in so many ways.</div> Certainly, I never expected Mutumbo to have this much gas this late in his career, and of late it would seem that Yao is the one backing up Deke. I honestly do not know where this team would b without him.
