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Yao traveled to San Antonio to watch the Chinese women’s national team play against San Antonio’s WNBA team, the Silver Spurs. For more photos from Yao’s visit to San Antonio, click here.
As many of you may experienced yesterday (Sunday), this site was down for several hours. We made some phone calls to the hosting provider, and it turned out a lot of their servers were down for all their customers’ sites, not just this one. I found it ironic that one day after many of the Rocket players failed to show up for Game 7, our hosting provider had a similar failure.
Now that it has been a couple of days since the Rockets lost to the Mavericks in Game 7 on Saturday night, I thought now was a good time to reflect on the abrupt ending of the Rockets’ season.
After Thursday’s Game 6 victory for the Rockets forcing a Game 7 in Dallas, I thought I was fortunate enough to get a ticket to Saturday’s game in Dallas. I knew there was a big risk of being disappointed if the Rockets lost, but I thought it was worth the drive to Dallas to perhaps witness history.
Yao throws one down in Dallas on his way to scoring 33 points, but other than T-Mac, none of the other Rockets showed up. Dallas ended Houston’s season with a Game 7 victory, winning 116-76. Click here for more photos from the game.
I sure witnessed history, alright. The worst Game 7 loss in NBA playoff history.
Yao celebrates on the bench as Houston takes a big lead in the fourth quarter in Game 6 Thursday night against Dallas. The Rockets ultimately defeated the Mavericks, 101-83. Yao only played 27 minutes and scored 8 points on 3-of-8 shooting. The series goes to Game 7 on Saturday night. Click here for more photos from the game.by Chia-Chi and John
5/5/05, THURSDAY – We can all breathe a sigh of relief as the Rockets avoided losing four straight games and forced a deciding game 7 in Dallas this Saturday with a 101-83 against the Mavericks on Thursday night. In what has to be the most drama-filled series, with terms like “life suspension” and everyone falling into camps about “who did what” correctly, Thursday’s game was simply about good clean basketball.
TUESDAY, 5/3/05 – The furor in the media about the $100,000 fine levied on Jeff Van Gundy, and the poor officiating in last night’s Rockets – Mavericks game, continues. Check out these links.
FoxSports.com – Van Gundy isn’t problem … refs are
Stay tuned for more analysis over the next couple of days before Thursday’s Game 6 between the Rockets and Mavericks as I continue to monitor this combustible situation involving the refs and David Stern’s maniacal ego.
A picture is worth a thousand words. See below. Click here for more photos from the game.MONDAY, 5/02/05 – UNDER PROTEST OF THE IDIOTIC REFS WHO ROBBED THE ROCKETS FROM A CHANCE TO TIE THE GAME DOWN THE STRETCH IN GAME 5, I DOUBT I CAN GATHER MY COMPOSURE TO DO A GAME SUMMARY. THIS IS A FIRST IN YAOMINGFANCLUB.COM HISTORY. HOW CAN I COVER A GAME THAT IS OFFICIATED BY BUFFOONS?
FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO SAW THE GAME, YOU KNOW WHAT I AM TALKING ABOUT. HOW CAN A GUY STEAL THE BALL WITH 2 FEET OUT OF BOUNDS? IF YOU DON’T KNOW WHAT I’M TALKING ABOUT, YOU’LL SEE IT ON ESPN.
THAT’S JUST ONE EXAMPLE OF THE INCOMPETENCE DISPLAYED BY THE OFFICIALS. AMATEURS. IMBECILES.