Rockets are an Insult to Previous "Big Three" Members

by Craig Kwasniewski

Rocket's Big Thee... a Big Letdown, a Big Disappointment, a Big Misnomer, a Big Mistake... Very Overrated!!!!!

All the hype and that's it? Seriously I'm supposed to believe that the Rockets are NBA Finals material? Let's deal with a more seriously problem: the Big Three label. Hey Larry Bird, Kevin McHale and Robert Parrish called, they want their nickname back. Even KG, Pierce and Ray Allen texted a follow up message: "Big Three my ass!"

At this point I'm wondering which Big Three is worse: Artest, T-Mac and Yao or Ford, GM and Chrysler? It's a tie but I'm slightly favoring the autos because of the government loans. After watching the Rockets get trounced by the Lakers from my seat in Section 316, here are a few facts:

-Houston's Big Three is as overrated as Zac Braff! Two of them have NEVER won a playoff series and the third is Ron Artest... Need I say any more?

-Houston is NOT a Finals contender! They're outside shooting is flawed, their PG's are not in the same league as Parker, CP3, D-Will, Kidd or Boom Dizzle and their low post game relies on Yao Ming (who spends half the time in the high post of Rick Adelman's Princeton-type offense, which worked for Bigs with limited post skills and decent jumpers like Brad Miller and Vlade Divac but is an atrocious fit for Yao). This team will win it's share of games but they're not as good as the Lakers, Celtics, Hornets or Jazz.

-The Rockets need some perimeter shooters. Aaron Brooks is their biggest perimeter threat and defenses will clog the lanes and collapse on Yao daring the Rockets to hit a jumpers until they can prove they have range. The Lakers adjusted their defense after the first quarter and played the passing lanes and collapsed in the key daring them to win from range... which they couldn't.

-And did I mention that the Lakers are pretty good? Clearly out of sync from an early season bye week, the Lakers turned the ball over early and often and fell in a deep who against Houston's not so Big Three. They were is preseason form with bad passes and little defensive effort (giving up 28 points in the first quarter and trailing 32-16 early in the second). But in came the bench and the likes of Trevor Ariza, Jordan Farmar and Andrew Bynum ratched up the D playing the passing lanes and dominating the defensive glass and dug themselves out of an early 16-point hole to take the lead at half. The defense and board work didn't stop as Houston were outscored 95-50 (95-50!!!! not outscored but DOMINATED) in the final 3 quarters.

So are the Lakers headed for 70 wins? Hardly, I've seen hot Novembers before only to collapse over a LONG regular season. But the Lakers are answering all the "early chemistry" issues that people predicted with resounding blow outs over quality opponents.

Over-rated (Clap, Clap, Clap-Clap-Clap)... Over-rated (Clap, Clap, Clap-Clap-Clap)...

Comments

[Ted]

I didn't watch the Lakers game but mad did the Rockets look ugly against Portland too...Fernandez and Roy had NO problem getting around Artest consistently. McGrady seemed virtually useless.

[Kobrick Cryant]

Kobrick is da greatest:
04: he can't win with 3 other HOFer, and he tried to be DA MAN.
05: he played 9yrs and well in his primed, and couldn't take his team into the playoff with pretty much the same supporting cast that D-Wade as rookie has.
06: He was held to SCORELESS in the second half in the most important of the season
07: Kobe is so good!!
08: he had a "GREAT" series like always, he shot 7 out 22 in game 6, OF THE FINALS.
Other than that:
1 undeserving MVP (CP3/LBJ got robbed)
overated first team all defense.
HOW CAN HE RAPED ANYEONE, HE'S NOT EVEN STRAIGHT!
See how great he is? I can't wait for him to do the same thing he did last year. EVERYBODY, KOBE, TELL ME HOW @$$ TASTE? And lastly, ENJOY UR SEASON! AND SUMMER, AND FALL, AND AUTUMN, AND WINTER!
MJ>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>KOBRICK CRYANT

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[snoop]

Three losers IMHO.. but mostly McGrady, Yao close second..

[T-Mac Has to GO!!!]

T-mac is playing with no passion what so ever. He does not play defense or offense. He is just taking up space in the court. He needs to get traded before his stock goes down even more. 60 yr old Dikembe Mutombo played 10x harder than McGrady who is 29 and suppose to be in his prime. T-mac is the biggest disappointment this year. Get him out of Houston, even for draft picks, whatever. T-mac needs to go.

[Joe Plumber]

LMAO. The season has just started and people are already writing off the Rockets. Yeah smart one. Kind of like how the past two seasons, they said the Rockets WOULD NOT make the playoffs when Yao went down. 22 STRAIGHT wins later and the Rockets were about 2 and a half games out of first place. Keep dissing the rockets, you will look like a fool come April. Just like the folks that doubted the Celtics all year long last year. NOBODY thought the Celtics would win but they made Kobe and the Lakers look like chumps.

Let me repeat, we are 7 games into the season. Since did we start judging teams so early into the season?

[DJ]

Wow, does everybody not remember that we have battier waiting to come back, he is going to give the rockets a lot of depth especially when playin the lakers and boston. With battier guarding kobe last year kobe struggled and houston won the season series, and when playin the celts he would play ray allen, then artest on pierce. the offense does look a little on the downside but we still are in games in the end. just wait til we get clicking on all cylinders, no need to panic its only 7 games into the year. don't doubt the rockets, they actually play better under the radar and do things like win 22 games in a row...(10 without our big man)!

[Craig]

Can anyone please name the last time Yao or T-Mac advanced in the playoffs?

Anyone???? Seriously, someone please tell me!!!

[Xiang]

Kinda funny how so many laker fans I know tend to judge teams so quickly.
It reminds me exactly of last year, when the lakers were playing oh-so-well against western teams and everyone was sucking up to them, while the celtics were getting written off by many for allowing their first 2 series to get to 7 games.
The 2 teams met in the finals, what happened next was one of the biggest chokes in finals history, with one of the biggest comebacks and biggest victory margin for the deciding game of the finals.

[rockets fan]

"They're outside shooting is flawed"

Your spelling is flawed

[anon]

"They're outside shooting is flawed"

Your spelling is flawed

PS--if you're going to delete my snappy comment, at least correct the mistake I pointed out

[iknowyouarebutwhatami]

new teammates getting acquainted with new a new season and new-look teams. we will see who has the last laugh.

go rockets...

... and i <3 zach braff

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