Anyway, Yao’s game was good.

In the third position Tyson chal even gave YAO a hard push which was call for a foul, he then foul again and he was out of the game with 6 fouls. He is so afraid of YAO taking over games in the last few minutes.

Those DUMB ref doesn’t gave YAO any respect, he gets slap and no calls. Must be some gambling with those ref behind close door or they might be racist.

This game was a real test to gauge the Rockets’ progress as their 5 game winning streak was against teams they should have beaten anyway and I thought they did pretty well against the Hornets, except for the last 20 seconds. Trailing by 1 point, Yao’s missed hook shot was a good call but I would have preferred if Rafer had milked the clock a little longer before passing to Yao, who should have passed back and reposted deeper, for a dunk over a smaller forward - game over. Second chance with the Rockets down by 3 with 7 seconds left, I was stunned by Rafer’s drive to the basket instead of looking for or passing to an open player for a 3 point shot.

The Rockets problem is the same as always - inconsistent shooting. Except for Yao, the team is laden with streak shooters, who seem to get hot or cold at the same. As for Yao, he should really help himself and heed the advice of Matt Bullard by accidentally breaking a few noses with some errant elbows when players reach in and slap at his hands since nobody is scared of attacking him aggressively and more often than not, he is not going to get the calls anyway.

K

Anywayz as I posted in my previous log, I felt that this would be the toughest game for the rockets in this current homestand. They should keep thier heads up, and finish the homestand 3-1.

Go Rockets.

p.s: SCOLA WAS EVERYWHERE!!!! GREAT JOB SCOLA>

adelman doesn’t think much of scola defensively as much as we might. — john

i looked at the video once again on the first one. it’s still hard to say for sure, but yao had no negative reaction to that play like he usually does when he thinks he’s fouled, like he did to the second.

i think scola & landry could play together when scola is playing backup center to yao.

Brooks’ new nickname is the “microwave.” He is looking more and more like the next Bobby Jackson. Adelman loves a tiny fast shooting guard with touch. Be interesting to see if he goes with that matchup against some of the bigger two guards in the league are on the floor.

Yao played well, and you’re right that we wouldn’t have been in it without him, but man his TO’s this year are out of control. He has always been a high turnover guy, but it is starting to get out of hand. 2 or 3 a game is acceptable, anything above that is too much. I have a little more lenience with point guards or wing players because they have ballhandling duties. But to be a center and losing that many plays a game is too much. In theory, that is handing the other team 12 points and however many minutes of play clock. That is how my AAU coach used to explain TO’s to us.

All that said, Yao could have gotten some more calls than he did, but I won’t complain too much about his game figuring his numbers were very good.

Final note, like that we are playing Landry some. He reminds me of Paul Milsap more than Kenny Thomas, because he is thicker and stronger than Thomas, but still pretty short. Hopefully he can be that guy we can go to for energy or if Hayes and/or Scola get hurt.

Good luck with the injury bud.

Yao can hit a three, but a team with lots of shooters just can’t allow guy who is tallest player in the NBA to shoot the three.

But I’m not worried, Rockets have always been alergic to Hornets no matter how good they are, simple fact.

I hope we take some wins in other games , Sonics, Spurs etc.