Game Thread: Blazers at Your Houston Rockets - 10/31/09

[Mr. E]

Everyone get ready for the home debut of Your Houston Rockets!!!!




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The Place: Toyota Center, Downtown Houston, Texas

The Date: October 31st, 2009 - All Hallow's Eve

The Time: 7:30 PM Central Standard Time

The Last Meeting: The Bad Guys won 96-87 in the season opener on 10/27/09 (Tuesday, you idjits!)

The Broadcast: FSNHouston (Television); 610 AM (Radio)


The Lineups:

Houston



C - Chuck "The Truck" Hayes





PF - Luis "The Product" Scola




SF - Shane "Batt-Man" Battier




SG - Trevor "Nickname Pending" Ariza




PG - Aaron "I am so bad I can rock the Bow Tie" Brooks



The Trail Blazers:

C - Greg Oden
PF - LaMarcus Aldridge
SF - Martell Webster
SG - Brandon Roy
PG - Steve Blake

(no disrespect Blazer fans - but I don't have any of your players pictures and I'm known around these parts for being way to lazy to google and sh#t)


The Randomly Inserted Image from the 1991 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue featuring Elle MacPherson and Kathy Ireland:




....yeah, still a classic after all these years!



Looking forward to seeing how the guys respond to the beating by Portland the other night as well as that nice (if inconsistant) win over the Warriors. Personally, I predict the Rockets to win 4-3, with Scola's Hat Trick giving us the winning goal in the third period. I wouldn't make any monetary bets based on my prediction, tho...

[MaxRider]

Martell Webster is starting

[roxfashoballin]

very early for a thread but o well, andersen needs more pt

[Teckon]

The rockets have made Shane Battier and Chuck Hayes as co-captains of this year team.
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/spo ... 93987.html

“I'm a captain?” he said. “I didn't know I was. That's news to me. Wow. I can't remember the last time I was a captain. I guess as far as the captain is concerned, I'm more of the Robin to Shane's Batman.”

[T-Mac United]

Rightfully so. Unseld and Battier are the heart and soul of the team.

[Julio]

Rightfully so. Unseld and Battier are the heart and soul of the team.

Yep and both have been on the team for quite a long time!

[VC#15]

GO ROCKETS!

[Guy986]

Average height for Blazers: 6'8

Tallest Rocket: 6'8


Automatic Loss

[DiamondX]

LOL^

Go TREVOR ARIZA!

[Mr. E]

very early for a thread but o well, andersen needs more pt

OK, maybe a wee bit early, but I think that we can handle it!

[roxfashoballin]

i hope we can handle it better than we'll handle this season , nah, as long as tmac comes back, we'll be in the playoffs. dallas is spanking the lakers right now tho, daam, lakers catchin up but still, good job on that

[YaoZaii]

book it.

The Budding Bird is going to get his career high in points tonight.

Okay
seriously, we need to get the damn rebounds!
Rockets should have like jumping and rebounding sessions 1st thing in the morning and evening everyday! lol.

[YaoZaii]

Average height for Blazers: 6'8

Tallest Rocket: 6'8


Automatic Loss

i think our tallest starting player is 6'9 (Scola) but like it'll make a huge difference.

i actually think we have a good height for our wing players in Ariza, Battier & Budding Bird. JT is a undersized at SG though but at least taller than L. Head.

[YaoZaii]

i actually hope to see more of pops in the game since he can stuff shots and dunk. It can motivate this team.

Starting C - Hayes
Starting PF - Scola

Back-up C - Pops
Back-up PF - Landry

What do u guys think?

[glydersid]

if the rockets can play like they did in the 3rd quarter against the warriors, we have a good chance of winning. tho scola doesnt play well against portlands bigs, hope he shows otherwise.