Rockets take Game 2 from Utah with 58 from Yao+T-Mac
Tuesday, April 24th, 2007
by John
Yao high-fives Rafer Alston after their 98-90 victory over the Utah Jazz Monday night. Yao scored 27 points and grabbed 9 boards in the win to give Houston a 2-0 advantage over the Jazz in their playoff series. Click here for photos from the game. Click here for photos of Yao before the game.
With all the photos, video highlights, stories and blogs posted online (NBA.com, Houston Chronicle, etc.) about the playoff games, it doesn’t seem to make much sense for me to go into much detail about these games. You’re probably overwhelmed with too much information like I am. And you probably already watched the game yourself.
So what I’ll do is point out some of the stuff that you might not have read or seen anywhere else, especially since I was at the game, or haven’t had time to digest. I’m making sure not to waste this opportunity since I don’t know how long I will be able to keep getting a media pass from the Rockets as more demand from the national media kicks in as the team continues to win.
First, here are some helpful links if you haven’t seem them already in addition to links to photos underneath the picture above (I’ll continue to update these links with more goodies as I find them).
Link to Yao video highlights on NBA.com
Link to game video highlights #1 on NBA.com
Link to game video highlights #2 on NBA.com
TNT’s halftime highlights with Kenny, Charles, Ernie and Magic
*New - Yao & T-Mac press conference
ESPN.com’s Greg Anthony - “How Jazz can rebound”
CNNsi.com - “Open Letter to T-Mac”
*New - I’m not able to find online any transcription of the quotes from Game 2 like what was available for Game 1. However, I have transcribed some myself. Check ‘em out at the end of this post.
Now about the game…
When I got there about 1 ½ hours before tip-off, you wouldn’t believe what was playing on the TV in the press room. It wasn’t the Orlando-Detroit game. Instead, it was Dancing with the Stars. Very strange. Coincidentally, Clyde Drexler was in the other room nowhere near the TV. But finally someone asked for the channel to be changed to basketball.
Yao high-fives Rafer Alston after their 98-90 victory over the Utah Jazz Monday night. Yao scored 27 points and grabbed 9 boards in the win to give Houston a 2-0 advantage over the Jazz in their playoff series. Click here for photos from the game. Click here for photos of Yao before the game.With all the photos, video highlights, stories and blogs posted online (NBA.com, Houston Chronicle, etc.) about the playoff games, it doesn’t seem to make much sense for me to go into much detail about these games. You’re probably overwhelmed with too much information like I am. And you probably already watched the game yourself.
So what I’ll do is point out some of the stuff that you might not have read or seen anywhere else, especially since I was at the game, or haven’t had time to digest. I’m making sure not to waste this opportunity since I don’t know how long I will be able to keep getting a media pass from the Rockets as more demand from the national media kicks in as the team continues to win.
First, here are some helpful links if you haven’t seem them already in addition to links to photos underneath the picture above (I’ll continue to update these links with more goodies as I find them).
Link to Yao video highlights on NBA.com
Link to game video highlights #1 on NBA.com
Link to game video highlights #2 on NBA.com
TNT’s halftime highlights with Kenny, Charles, Ernie and Magic
*New - Yao & T-Mac press conference
ESPN.com’s Greg Anthony - “How Jazz can rebound”
CNNsi.com - “Open Letter to T-Mac”
*New - I’m not able to find online any transcription of the quotes from Game 2 like what was available for Game 1. However, I have transcribed some myself. Check ‘em out at the end of this post.
Now about the game…
When I got there about 1 ½ hours before tip-off, you wouldn’t believe what was playing on the TV in the press room. It wasn’t the Orlando-Detroit game. Instead, it was Dancing with the Stars. Very strange. Coincidentally, Clyde Drexler was in the other room nowhere near the TV. But finally someone asked for the channel to be changed to basketball.
