They should but Steve Francis back in the rotation.

Wow big shot Battier!!!!! Why didn't they get that ball to Yao on the inbounds play was beyond me.

I agree with that. Can SF really do worse than Alston? Hard to believe.

you want yao to bring up the ball?

when you have 8 sec no time outs, you put the ball in tmac's hands every time. tmac draws the double, dump to battier for the 3, they've run that a million times last year. we're lucky he drained it

neither yao nor tmac looked integrated well into this offense. yao would peel off a pick and roll wide open and tmac would ignore him and dribble into a double team in mid court. and like 20 of yao's points were fadeaways and spins exactly the same as last year

The rockets were lucky to survive that one. Once again blowing a lead when they should have cruise home. As badly as he played all night, Rafer did 4 oustanding things in the 4th. He hit a crucial 3 that extended a 5 point lead to 8. He then made back to back passes to Yao to give the rockets a lead they should NEVER have surrender. While his TO in the last minute was costly I believe the play call from RA was the problem. He should have got the ball to Yao straight off the outbounds play and with not much time left the Lakers would've send him, the rockets best FT shooter to the free throw line. Instead for whatever reason he decided to get the ball to Rafer. Rafer was the ONLY player with the basketball smarts to get the ball to Yao in the low posts. If more of the rockets have the same level of recognition of the game, they would have never been in trouble in the first place. Ironically everyone's favorite son Mike James choke at the FT line while another player hated on, Battier hits the game winner. A lot for the rockets and some fans on this board to learn from.