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Rockets aren't rolling over. I like that.
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Lakers defense today is the most pathetic thing Ive ever seen.
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Alot of time left, but who knew the Lakers would come out and stink up the joint.
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Ridiculous last second shot to end the 3rd quarter...
Gotta keep it going..
Gotta keep it going..
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that was the most entertaining blowout ive seen in a while, lol. its gonna be interesting to see how the lakers react in game 5. has anyone noticed the lakers dont have much of a home court advantage? their crowd is pretty lame.
ps where is this andrew bynum i keep hearing about that was the key to the lakers winning it all? ive even heard if he was there last year they would have for sure won it all?
ps where is this andrew bynum i keep hearing about that was the key to the lakers winning it all? ive even heard if he was there last year they would have for sure won it all?
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Ever since Andrew Bynum was caught hanging out with Rihanna, his play has gone downhill. These jinx women, i tell ya. LOL, yes I had to go there.
On the real, he just looks way timid out there. He has no trust or confidence in his knee or play.
Like someone above said, Lakers defense is going to kill them once again. Ridiculous.
Its so weird, no Yao, no Tracy and yet the Rockets blow out the Lakers. Game 5 is going to be interesting. The lakers responded with back to back wins when the Rockets won game 1. Very anxious to see how much cojones this team has for Game 5. Must win, I say.
On the real, he just looks way timid out there. He has no trust or confidence in his knee or play.
Like someone above said, Lakers defense is going to kill them once again. Ridiculous.
Its so weird, no Yao, no Tracy and yet the Rockets blow out the Lakers. Game 5 is going to be interesting. The lakers responded with back to back wins when the Rockets won game 1. Very anxious to see how much cojones this team has for Game 5. Must win, I say.
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No Yao, no problem as Rockets roll
By J.A. Adande
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HOUSTON -- It looks like the more All-Stars you remove, the better the Houston Rockets play.
Yao Ming, his season over after high-resolution scans showed a hairline fracture in his left foot, joined Tracy McGrady and Dikembe Mutombo in the Rockets' suit-and-tie fashion show Sunday, a combined 15 All-Star games, two scoring championships and four Defensive Player of the Year awards sitting on the bench.
No matter. The downsized Rockets dominated the Lakers from the beginning of Game 4, leading by 29 point at one stage of an easy, 99-87 victory that tied these Western Conference semifinals at 2-2.
"We're a resilient group," Shane Battier said. "We've talked about bouncing back, bouncing back ... through adversity through lineup changes, through trades, through injuries. We never quit and we never stopped believing."
No one thought the Rockets would quit after the devastating news of Yao's latest injury. But when we dismissed them we didn't figure the Lakers would stop trying themselves.
Los Angeles was out of it from the outset, missing nine of 11 shots and turning the ball over four times in the first six minutes, falling behind 19-4 and never causing so much as a bead of worrisome sweat to form on Houston's foreheads.
"We were never competitive," Lakers coach Phil Jackson said.
"We're a little bit of a team that needs to have sometimes a spark put in us to play."
For now it's time to stop wondering how their inconsistent efforts translate into a potential matchups down the road and get back to this series, which just became a best-of-three.
The final stats in Game 5 turned out to be pretty close, thanks to a meaningless fourth quarter the Lakers won 33-16. But the tell-tale numbers of who wanted this game more could still be found in the rebounding column, which the Rockets won 43-37 despite starting 6-foot-6 Chuck Hayes at center.
It's not often you'll hear praise for a man who was outscored 30-2, but Hayes' seven rebounds at halftime were more than any Laker, and Pau Gasol's 18 fourth-quarter points were the equivalent of an A-Rod ninth-inning home run in a blowout.
The other noticeable part of the stat sheet: The list of Rockets setting new playoff career highs was as long as the list of Rockets injured players. New marks for Aaron Brooks (34 points), Battier (23 points) and Luis Scola (14 rebounds).
The Rockets have been running their offense through Yao ever since McGrady shut it down in February. Battier said his job had been to "get the ball to Yao." Before Game 5 the Houston coaches emphasized using penetration to set up outside shots instead of forcing shots or interior passes in the lane. It helped that Kobe Bryant strayed away from Battier (he usually leaves players he doesn't respect) and Battier happily fired up 10 3-pointers and made five of them. Those shots alone matched Bryant's 15 points, and after a rare victory in this head-to-head matchup, Battier said, "This box score may be framed in my house somewhere. He's going to come back with a vengeance in Game 5. There's no question."
That's been the M.O. for Bryant and the Lakers so far. Kobe averaged 39 points in the games after the Lakers' two previous playoff losses, and he seems to take particular exception to the notion he can be contained.
The Rockets did as good a job as could be expected, keeping Bryant in confined areas, forcing him to shoot with hands in his face or pass to teammates.
And now the Lakers might have their own injury issues to deal with. In the third quarter Lamar Odom charged into Battier, lost his balance and landed hard on his tailbone. Odom has back spasms, will undergo testing and treatment Monday and said he won't practice Monday and wasn't sure about his availability for Game 5 Tuesday.
"Hopefully I can help them when they play," Odom said.
He wasn't of much benefit during his 25 minutes Sunday, with two points, six rebounds and three assists before the injury.
With each game Andrew Bynum looks less and less relevant. At one point he caught the ball in the low post with Ron Artest guarding him and never even looked at the basket before passing back out. His stat line: two rebounds, no points in under 12 minutes.
Derek Fisher returned from a one-game suspension for a Flagrant 2 foul, and he was a bigger part of the problem than the solution. He can't contain Brooks -- not that he had much help from his teammates when Brooks came off screens, which was one of Jackson's primary complaints. Fisher was booed every time he touched the ball, except for the derisive cheers he elicited when he airballed a 3-pointer. He made only one of four shots and had a plus/minus of minus-22.
Backup point guard Jordan Farmar burned up whatever capital he built in his solid start in Fisher's absence. He took a couple of quick shots in the second quarter and found himself on the bench. And he went to sleep at the end of the third quarter while guarding Brooks, allowing Brooks to catch an inbounds pass lobbed from the backcourt and lay it in at the buzzer.
"As a team, we just wanted to be more aggressive," Brooks said. "Without Yao in there, the paint was going to open up a bit more. We just wanted to get into the middle and we hit a lot of threes today."
Ten, on 29 attempts, to be specific.
Brooks was wearing a bright red jacket. The only disappointment is that none of the injured Rockets wore one as well, after the team hung them in every player's locker before Game 3. (Yao has an excuse; he says his didn't fit). Yeah, it might have been a Flagrant 2 fashion violation, but it would have been a fun gesture of team spirit -- and it couldn't have been any more unsightly than the sad effort put out by the Lakers on Sunday.
J.A. Adande is an ESPN.com senior writer and the author of "The Best Los Angeles Sports Arguments." Click here to e-mail J.A.
By J.A. Adande
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HOUSTON -- It looks like the more All-Stars you remove, the better the Houston Rockets play.
Yao Ming, his season over after high-resolution scans showed a hairline fracture in his left foot, joined Tracy McGrady and Dikembe Mutombo in the Rockets' suit-and-tie fashion show Sunday, a combined 15 All-Star games, two scoring championships and four Defensive Player of the Year awards sitting on the bench.
No matter. The downsized Rockets dominated the Lakers from the beginning of Game 4, leading by 29 point at one stage of an easy, 99-87 victory that tied these Western Conference semifinals at 2-2.
"We're a resilient group," Shane Battier said. "We've talked about bouncing back, bouncing back ... through adversity through lineup changes, through trades, through injuries. We never quit and we never stopped believing."
No one thought the Rockets would quit after the devastating news of Yao's latest injury. But when we dismissed them we didn't figure the Lakers would stop trying themselves.
Los Angeles was out of it from the outset, missing nine of 11 shots and turning the ball over four times in the first six minutes, falling behind 19-4 and never causing so much as a bead of worrisome sweat to form on Houston's foreheads.
"We were never competitive," Lakers coach Phil Jackson said.
"We're a little bit of a team that needs to have sometimes a spark put in us to play."
For now it's time to stop wondering how their inconsistent efforts translate into a potential matchups down the road and get back to this series, which just became a best-of-three.
The final stats in Game 5 turned out to be pretty close, thanks to a meaningless fourth quarter the Lakers won 33-16. But the tell-tale numbers of who wanted this game more could still be found in the rebounding column, which the Rockets won 43-37 despite starting 6-foot-6 Chuck Hayes at center.
It's not often you'll hear praise for a man who was outscored 30-2, but Hayes' seven rebounds at halftime were more than any Laker, and Pau Gasol's 18 fourth-quarter points were the equivalent of an A-Rod ninth-inning home run in a blowout.
The other noticeable part of the stat sheet: The list of Rockets setting new playoff career highs was as long as the list of Rockets injured players. New marks for Aaron Brooks (34 points), Battier (23 points) and Luis Scola (14 rebounds).
The Rockets have been running their offense through Yao ever since McGrady shut it down in February. Battier said his job had been to "get the ball to Yao." Before Game 5 the Houston coaches emphasized using penetration to set up outside shots instead of forcing shots or interior passes in the lane. It helped that Kobe Bryant strayed away from Battier (he usually leaves players he doesn't respect) and Battier happily fired up 10 3-pointers and made five of them. Those shots alone matched Bryant's 15 points, and after a rare victory in this head-to-head matchup, Battier said, "This box score may be framed in my house somewhere. He's going to come back with a vengeance in Game 5. There's no question."
That's been the M.O. for Bryant and the Lakers so far. Kobe averaged 39 points in the games after the Lakers' two previous playoff losses, and he seems to take particular exception to the notion he can be contained.
The Rockets did as good a job as could be expected, keeping Bryant in confined areas, forcing him to shoot with hands in his face or pass to teammates.
And now the Lakers might have their own injury issues to deal with. In the third quarter Lamar Odom charged into Battier, lost his balance and landed hard on his tailbone. Odom has back spasms, will undergo testing and treatment Monday and said he won't practice Monday and wasn't sure about his availability for Game 5 Tuesday.
"Hopefully I can help them when they play," Odom said.
He wasn't of much benefit during his 25 minutes Sunday, with two points, six rebounds and three assists before the injury.
With each game Andrew Bynum looks less and less relevant. At one point he caught the ball in the low post with Ron Artest guarding him and never even looked at the basket before passing back out. His stat line: two rebounds, no points in under 12 minutes.
Derek Fisher returned from a one-game suspension for a Flagrant 2 foul, and he was a bigger part of the problem than the solution. He can't contain Brooks -- not that he had much help from his teammates when Brooks came off screens, which was one of Jackson's primary complaints. Fisher was booed every time he touched the ball, except for the derisive cheers he elicited when he airballed a 3-pointer. He made only one of four shots and had a plus/minus of minus-22.
Backup point guard Jordan Farmar burned up whatever capital he built in his solid start in Fisher's absence. He took a couple of quick shots in the second quarter and found himself on the bench. And he went to sleep at the end of the third quarter while guarding Brooks, allowing Brooks to catch an inbounds pass lobbed from the backcourt and lay it in at the buzzer.
"As a team, we just wanted to be more aggressive," Brooks said. "Without Yao in there, the paint was going to open up a bit more. We just wanted to get into the middle and we hit a lot of threes today."
Ten, on 29 attempts, to be specific.
Brooks was wearing a bright red jacket. The only disappointment is that none of the injured Rockets wore one as well, after the team hung them in every player's locker before Game 3. (Yao has an excuse; he says his didn't fit). Yeah, it might have been a Flagrant 2 fashion violation, but it would have been a fun gesture of team spirit -- and it couldn't have been any more unsightly than the sad effort put out by the Lakers on Sunday.
J.A. Adande is an ESPN.com senior writer and the author of "The Best Los Angeles Sports Arguments." Click here to e-mail J.A.
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Gemini Dolly;2770230 said:
mmmm rihanna.....
although i think she looked better with long brown hair, like when she first came out, before she became a huge superstar.i think your right, he might just be timid on those knees, its a shame that he is having knee problems at such a young age, i guess like someone said about yao its hard on the human body to be that massive, specially for him being so big at such a young age. i remember kobe was still having growing pains back when he first came to the NBA, like literally growing pains. now these kids come in looking like full grown men, like lebron for example. its only a matter of time before that catches up to you
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Looks like the Lakers are none too pleased about getting trashed Sunday by the Rockets and the LA beat writers. This is getting ugly.
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Did you catch the Lebron-Nike commercial where they use the puppets like in the old Comedy Central show "Crank Yankers"?
Pretty funny.
Pretty funny.
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SuspectCorner;2772584 said:
I wasn't a fan of it.
The "Kobe" puppet looked like it was designed by Stevie Wonder.
It had one running joke... the chalk... that wasn't that funny to begin with.
Maybe they're trying to recapture the magic of "Lil' Penny" -- but they missed big time.
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Rampage;2772595 said:
Hardcore, baby. To the death.
I expected a beatdown - just not one of biblical proportions. I looked out my door just now - but it hasn't started raining frogs yet.
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Danny White;2772604 said:
I guess I'm just one of those who laughs a lot easier with a few beers in him. You know - simpleminded.
:beer1: :laugh1: