see you in the playoffs Stories - The Dream Shake
Notes from the couch
Rockets damn near gave me a heart attack last night. Up 21 at one point... then losing 102-101 with a few minutes left in the game. No one guarding anyone shooting 3s for Golden State. Scary stuff. A few notes though:1. Yao is a beast. An absolute Godzilla according to Deadspin. 36 points (season...
The Dream Shake on Ball Don't Lie (Yahoo)
The incomparable J.E. Skeets over at Yahoo's Ball Don't Lie NBA blog asked the leading bloggers for playoff-bound teams in the Western Conference to provide a short synopsis of (a) what team do we want to face in the playoffs, and (b) what team(s) we'd very much be happy to avoid in round 1.For...
To hell with it - everyone is On Notice!
It wasn't enough that Ian Thomsen and SI.com started bashing the Rockets.No, the Sports Guy had to pile on, too (though, with flawed analysis).Even ESPN has their backhanded compliment of the week for the Rockets. Almost expecting T-Mac and Adelman to fail in the playoffs.Now bloggers and...
Things that suck...
This is a great weekend for basketball fans everywhere. There's the NCAA tournament - where there is a chance that for the first time ever all four of the #1 seeds might make the Final Four. It's not going to happen (Texas will probably beat Memphis, if only as payback for Memphis not covering and...
On Notice - Ian Thomsen, part II
So, SI.com had been writing glowing things about the Houston Rockets lately. Which, considering we had a 22-freakin'-game winning streak likely prohibited them from saying negative things about the guys. Now that we are 7 days removed from the end of the Streak - well, the claws are starting to...
Luis Scola now officially a badass
We apologize greatly for not seeing this news when it was first announced, but:LUIS SCOLA NAMED WESTERN CONFERENCE T-MOBILE ROOKIE OF THE MONTH FOR FEBRUARY!!!!!!!It's true... it's like official and everything.That's what you get when your team makes the entire NBA its collective bitch for an...
It's a bird... it's a plane... it's...
Superman??? No! It's Luis Landry! Here to save the day for the Rockets -- again.That's 15 in a row, bitches! We kinda called it. And yet no one believed us. Maybe now you will listen?? Hey - the Rockets are going to make the playoffs. We are. In fact, we'd have an awesome re-match with Utah if the...
We are winning 14 in a row! Book it!
After tomorrow, the Rockets will have the longest winning streak in the NBA all season. 14.Portland won 13 in a row earlier.Detroit has a couple streaks beyond 10 games.But the Rockets will have the longest. And most distinguished.Am I overlooking Memphis? Uh, yeah. If we can't beat Memphis - our...
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