We have a completely healthy team and even against a horrible wizards team we sleepwalk through the game and can’t pull it out in the end. The Celtics or Lakers would have taken this game over in the second half and found a way to win even with a bad first half. God this game sucked to watch!!!

up until they won tonight.

Wow. I’m speechless. Unreal.

It’s actually hard for me to say anything without it sounding like a gross exaggeration.

For now, I’ll just say – I still don’t like the Adelman hire, never have… and they still seem destined to lose in the first round again.

Just found your website. It seems great and is a nice alternative to Clutchfans, which has sadly been overrun by nothing but completely negative idiots. But, I digress.

Im a Red Rowdy and it was really hard to swallow last nights game. I have to agree with your post. If those guys brought you back into the game, let them finish it. I know Rick Adelman knows more about coaching than me, but some of his decisions last couple of games left me scratching my head…

I had a link to The Dream Shake in my signature. Then Clutch or another one of the mods deleted my sig for whatever reason. I guess they have to make sure that ClutchFans is the only place you can go to discuss the Rockets! Then they later banned me when I didn’t say anything meriting a ban. I’ll continue to make more accounts once it’s allowed again, but those mods really piss me off.

Obviously he didn’t want to take Ron Ron out when he was hot like that, but Yao on an off night is still better than pretty much anyone else in the league.

I watched that game, and we were so flat and lifeless I pretty much knew from about the 2nd qtr it would be a loss. Honestly, I do think Adelman is sleeping a lot, but I understand his move in the 4th. Here’s what I think – the bench came in, kicked ass, played with maximum effort and got the team back in the game. When Adelmann took them out I think he thought, and I know I thought, that the 2nd unit was basically gassed from catching up.

So he puts in the starters and probably says something like: “Ok, the bench got you back in a game you had no business being in, maybe you can muster the effort to win it, eh?”

And they couldn’t. Which is fine by Rick, i honestly believe he thinks long term, and is looking towards the end of the season. He knows we won’t see Washington again this season, he knows that a loss like that can have value. He’ll use that as a stick to beat them with as the season goes on, along the lines of “Oh, you want to do it your way? Like you did against Washington? That turned out well, didn’t it? Why don’t you try my way? I’ve been coaching longer than you’ve been alive.”