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Today is the golden (50th) anniversary of Wilt Chamberlain scoring 100 points in a game. I can't even fathom hearing of a player dropping 100 or more in today's NBA. You may hear of players who drop 40 on a team. Some may drop 50 on a team. Kobe Bryant put down 81 points once. However, to go over the century mark on the floor is just incredible. Here's a Yahoo! Sports piece on the great Wilt Chamberlain:

http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/news;_y...chamberlain_100_point_game_anniversary_030212



My Rockets will go back to work tonight after we got their butts handed to on Wednesday night at the Jazz (a 104-85 spank job). We got the Denver Nuggets tonight here in Houston, and we then host the Los Angeles Clippers on Sunday night. Good luck to all of your teams this weekend as we begin NBA play in March 2012.
 
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The hot Miami Heat saw their 9-game winning streak fizzle out in Salt Lake City. They lost 99-98 at the Jazz. Don't worry- my Rockets know full well how tough it is to play at the Jazz. Speaking of fails... my Rockets failed again- a 117-105 defeat for my Rockets. At this rate, we may be only a few games away from missing the playoffs at present as mediocrity is beginning to settle in. Rockets need to step the hell up, unless they want the Clippers to come in and pound us further into the ground this Sunday...
 
They have played extremely well considering all of the injuries that they've had and missing our best player in Eric Gordon. We've won four of seven and gave the Bulls a run for their money. Hopefully next year we pick up some good players through the draft and free agency and maybe we could contend for a seven or eight seed, maybe.

This, always gotta considered whose injured and whatnot. I think the hornets will come out stronger next year.
 
Rockets need to step the hell up, unless they want the Clippers to come in and pound us further into the ground this Sunday...

After watching the Clippers look sluggish and awful on the road last night in Phoenix, they'll be thirsty for blood in Houston with today's day off. It's a rough road trip, travel-wise.
 
Another f:censored:ing fail by the Rockets. 105-103 loss in Overtime to the Clippers. So we begin a five-game road trip with a losing streak, and I'm sure our back-to-back at Boston and at the Raptors isn't going to help. It was a great game that we just sadly lost. We didn't need this loss considering that the Clippers are higher up the Western Conference standings than we are.

Oh, well. Better luck next game...


[UPDATE/EXTRA INFO] By the way, it was a very good and close game between the Rockets and Clippers. Many lead changes all throughout the game.
 
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I just watched the Golden State vs Raptors game and I still don't know how we won, seemingly average basketball.
 
CP3 adds another notch to his belt on why he's one of the best "closers" in the NBA.
 
My Rockets will be away from Toyota Center for a while- five game road trip including a pair of back-to-back games. This back-to-back is at Boston tonight and at the Raptors Wednesday night. After that, it's at the soon-to-be-Brooklyn Nets this Saturday night and then at Cleveland on Sunday night. The trip ends next Tuesday at the Thunder (gulp...).

Meanwhile, I believe tonight's NBA Fan Night game is going to be the Knicks at the Mavericks. How will Linsanity impact Dallas? We shall see.
 
Rockets going in the WRONG direction. We lost 116-98, and I'm pretty pissed off at how the Rockets have been playing lately. Just no fight or drive for Red Rising as they've now lost what... five straight now? Two days off until our trip to the Nets, but this is bulls:censored: that the Rockets would play so closely against teams like the Clippers and Celtics, but f:censored: up like it ain't s:censored: to the motherf:censored: Raptors! I'm f:censored:ing sick of this losing s:censored:. If I wanted to see a Houston team fail, I'd watch the Houston Cougars fail to win basketball games this season. Only good news out of this is that we get two days off before our next game. But the Rockets need to play MUCH better than the s:censored:ty performance we're putting out right now.

Paulie would be happy his boys won, but I'm mad as hell over how poorly this Rockets team has been lately. I guess we're a lock to lose at the Nets and at the Cavaliers if this keeps up...
 
Yeah I am happy now you mention it :lol:, glad we got you that one back. Kleiza came alive in the 4th, I really like his game and he has a sweet looking J. Dragic played very well for Houston, the rest of your team was definitely tired or something in that game.
 
Want a good way to get chewed out by sports reporters? It's easy! Just give up a 27-something point lead at the Washington Wizards and lose to the Wizards. That's what happened to the Lakers as they failed back on Wednesday night (or whenever it was). They lost at the Pistons and at the Wizards. Some are saying that the Lakers simply don't have enough good players. I've always sort of looked at the Lakers as Kobe Bryant... and everybody else. Well, I probably should say Kobe and Derek Fisher and everybody else. I still can't get over seeing the Wizards blow an easy layup by throwing the ball over the backboard and out of bounds. That's like kicking a soccer ball into another country when you have a point-blank goal.

Did you all see Orlando put up 37 points on the Bulls in the first quarter alone? The teams seemed too afraid to shoot inside the arc, so a 3-point shootout mostly happened in the 1st Quarter. Orlando managed to win 99-94 in Chicago last night. Meanwhile, Phoenix prevented getting swept by the Dallas Mavericks as they won 96-94 in Phoenix.


Enjoy your NBA 'ball tonight and this weekend! I'll see if my Rockets can finally get back to winning when we're at the Nets tomorrow night followed by at the Cavaliers Sunday night.
 
Torn ACL... Ricky Rubio is DONE for the season. Tough break for him.


Good luck to all of your teams this weekend.
 
We just pulled one out in Newark- Rockets won 112-106. The big difference in our victory was solid defense by the Rockets late. Dragic was bloody mad (so to speak) for the Rockets, scoring 23 points for the Rockets. This back-to-back continues tomorrow night as we're in Cleveland. Our losing streak is now over, but will our winning streak continue? I can only hope so. That's only as long as we don't treat this upcoming game as a trap game (we're at the Oklahoma City Thunder this Tuesday night).
 
The Miami game was a real cracker, talk about clutch plays from Wade and James.
 
The Miami game was a real cracker, talk about clutch plays from Wade and James.
I think Miami, Chicago, or OKC will definitely be taking the title this year. These 3 have been playing so amazingly well this season, it'd be a rare chance for them to change during the Playoffs.
 
Kyle Lowry (HOU) will be out for 2-4 weeks due to a bacterial infection. We're basically dead weight tonight as we're at Oklahoma City to end this 5-game road trip.

Among other games tonight... Florida pride is on the line. Heat at Magic. That will be on NBA TV tonight.
 
*happy dance*

Bloody hell... we WON! We were supposed to fail at the Thunder, but we man'd up and won 104-103 at the Thunder. Courtney Lee pulled off a money three-pointer with about 15 seconds left in the game. Chandler Parsons was a beast with the offensive production he put up. But... we got it done. Surprisingly.


Up next: back home for a grand total of one game to host the Bobcats. Then after that, at Clippers on Saturday afternoon followed by at Phoenix on Sunday.
 
Man, the Clippers have been sub .500 since Chauncey went down. They need to trade for a new SG pronto. Randy Foye isn't going to cut it.
 
I'm not impressed to see Bogut being sent to a much lesser team if such a trade occurs, but happy that the Raptors won today. Bargnani's finding his game again 3 games back from injury and Calderon should be back in a week or so.
 
Meanwhile a crazy day in New York. 'Melo wants out (well, the team has fallen apart since he came back) and Howard wants into Brooklyn for next season (ie, no trade, I want them to keep Brooks and Lopez). If New Jersey/Brooklyn can pull that off that would be amazing.
 
Here's the crazier news: Mike D'Antoni has resigned as the NYK coach.
 
Woah. Man, the Knicks really ruin coaching careers.
 
And then win by 42 points. :eek:

On the topic of Dwight, someone went full retard. Orlando finally called his bluff, & Dwight replied he would return next season. Not a full 12 hours later, Dwight & his agent change their mind & reply that he will be leaving.

What the hell Howard, make up your mind & stop trying to go to the Nets so you can play with Williams; you're still going to be a sub-par team.
 
And then win by 42 points. :eek:

Blazers quit playing few weeks back.

I'm not ranting, they really did quit playing. The rumor is, some Blazer players are trying to get the coach fired. You watch some of these games, it's pretty much a shootaround & layup drill for the other team. Maybe we aren't paying them enough. :lol:

If I had my way with the NBA, we will fire the players, not so much the coach.
 
Blazers quit playing few weeks back.

I'm not ranting, they really did quit playing. The rumor is, some Blazer players are trying to get the coach fired. You watch some of these games, it's pretty much a shootaround & layup drill for the other team. Maybe we aren't paying them enough. :lol:

If I had my way with the NBA, we will fire the players, not so much the coach.
That's a bit sad, if I'm honest. It wasn't but a few months back that Portland was actually a pretty good team to go against.
 
That's a bit sad, if I'm honest. It wasn't but a few months back that Portland was actually a pretty good team to go against.

I'm sad & disappointed that these guys are paid millions of dollars, and they can pull this kind of stunt. If you have problem with the coach, you should still do your job & play hard, then go to the front office(president, GM, etc.), have a discussion.

CBS Sportsline has reported that two players leading mutiny against Coach McMillan are Jamal Crawford + Raymond Felton. Felton is what you call a no-talent a$$clown. He was never good, and he has sucked even worse this season(really hard to believe). Jamal, looks like he was traded tonight, as he didn't even suit up against the Knicks. Very good sign.

Bogut to Golden State, Ellis(AWESOME) to Milwaukie. With another day left until the trade deadline, I'm sure more action to come. I'm very excited. Especially if Felton is dealt for ....... anybody.
 
That trade the Warriors and Bucks did was crazy.

I wonder what the Hornets are looking for if they're going to trade Kaman.
 
That trade the Warriors and Bucks did was crazy.

I wonder what the Hornets are looking for if they're going to trade Kaman.

Forgot all about Kaman. He's been on the trading block for awhile now.

Bucks-Warriors trade was crazy. Two nice pieces, but they seemed to have joined two teams that didn't need those particular pieces. :crazy:
 
If I had my way with the NBA, we will fire the players, not so much the coach.

Unless you're a really bad coach who repeatedly makes bad decisions, I've rarely understood the mentality that coaches make a huge difference in professional sports. The players are adults, and should act like pros no matter what. If the coach is putting you the wrong spot, or refuses to play you for no reason, despite obvious talent, then maybe there's a problem.

On the other hand, players aren't really allowed to come out and yell back at the coach, for fear of being benched for a game. But mostly, they aren't the pawns in a chess match that they think they are. So while some of the tie-wearing tyrants actually sort of deserve it, that's generally only if there's no glittering hardware to prove how good they are. If it's just to prove much of a bitch they can be, or perhaps in the rare case when they're a racist sack of crap, then I understand giving them the axe.

I'd say in a case like the Knicks, the combination of new-found talent trying to mesh together is going to take more time, although this is also in the NY sports media market, which is absolutely ruthless. The Knicks haven't done anything major in over 10 years, and although it's a team that once knew greatness, they've been mediocre for a while, and ridding themselves of their best coach in a decade seems like a wrong-headed move. You're not getting Pat Riley back, either.
 
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