Comments on: Rockets gift to Bulls a sobering reminder

By: YaoMingMania

YaoMingMania — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 20:21:56 +0000

It was a lottery. Don't think Team Yao “picked” you.

By: YaoMingMania

YaoMingMania — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 12:21:56 +0000

It was a lottery. Don't think Team Yao “picked” you.

By: pryuen

pryuen — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 03:10:04 +0000

A healthy T-LACK??? When???

Ever since he joined the Rockets, he had yet a 82-game full season.

The following were the games he played for the Rockets in the past 5 seasons:

04 ~ 05 78 games
05 ~ 06 47 games
06 ~ 07 71 games
07 ~ 08 66 games
08 ~ 09 35 games

In fact he was/is an injury-prone player even back at the days when he played for Toronto Raptors and Orlando Magic.

Yeah he used to penetrate, drive the lane for dunks for fouls.....but that was looooooooooooooog gone. He had been downgraded to just a very mediocre jump-shooter for the past 2 to 3 years as a Rockets.

Fans were criticizing for the loss, because they're afraid the ghost of T-LACK will be attached to Ron Artest, turning him into just another egocentric me-mine-my player who put personal glory, high stats ABOVE the team, and forgot what the Houston Rockets was/is good at.

The Rockets will never achieve greatness if they are just a dumb-stupid run-and-gun, jump-shooting team. They were/are a team designed and built and excelled in half-court offense and defense, and built around Yao Ming as the nucleus/core. Go away from and ignore Yao Ming as the main go-to-guy, they are destined to doom.

By: Shawn

Shawn — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 20:04:33 +0000

disgusting loss. Rockets need to find a way to give Yao the ball or make them pay when they sandwitch Yao down in the post.
Vince, McLady plays like a 50 year old on the court, god knows when Knee-Back will be 100% Healthy again.

By: YaoMingMania

YaoMingMania — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 19:57:09 +0000

The one saving grace to Ron-Ron firing away was after the game, he said, “I take the blame for the loss” and he said it seriously unlike McGrady last year when he kept saying, “It's all my fault” numerous times as a joke. Although Ron showed poor judgment last night with his shot selection, the fact he takes full responsibility is encouraging. There's not much more one can ask for other than to hope he doesn't do it again.

By: Wendy

Wendy — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 19:44:58 +0000

To Vince:
You are annoying. Why bother coming if you feel tortured by Johns writing?

On the game:
I hope ths was an abberration by Artest. It's not the los that bothers me, sh*t happens. It's how it happened: by Ronron happily firing away, which is BTW not the first time this season he completely disregard the offense.

By: James King

James King — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 17:38:01 +0000

Remember this is NBA. No team is perfect. Every dog has its day. Don't feel so sorry about a single loss. Remember Lakes just got slammed in Denver the other day.

Move on, Rockets! I believe you can prove that you can and you will be a champion contender right in this season.

By: YaoMingMania

YaoMingMania — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 17:09:37 +0000

Well, I actually didn't complain last night because Ren covered the game for me, and Ren's post was very diplomatic. Now as far as the commenters on this site, you should probably address it with them directly. There's a little “reply” link under each post where you can respond to each fan's comment directly.

For the record, McGrady only played in like half of the games during the 22-game winning streak last year. And this isn't really a “blind fan” site like you might want it to be. It's a “smart, thinking fan site” where we applaud them when they are playing well, and hold players and coaches accountable when they aren't. If you'd like a Kool-Aid drinking site, I'm sure there are plenty of sites out there where the fans are like lemmings and blindly believe everything they are told, or let the players do whatever or say whatever they want, only to have the team never do anything (Clippers?).

By: Vince

Vince — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 15:55:25 +0000

Like I said… a healthy T-Mac. Didn't see anyone complaining about T-Mac during 2nd half of last year. You're just like everyone else on this site, thinking you are GM+Coach+Trainer+Owner. Nice to see all the support by the fans when things get tough… all you people complaining now will jump back on the bandwagon after they win a few more games again and jump right off when things get tough.

By: Wilson

Wilson — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 14:24:12 +0000

THIS ROCKETS TEAM IS SO DISSAPOINTING!!!
I HATE THIS TEAM!!! WASTING MY AND EVERYBODY'S TIME!!!