The Mind of Mullin: POSTGAME: ROCKETS

Sunday, February 1, 2009

POSTGAME: ROCKETS - 01/31/09

MVW: Stephen Jackson

The Good
S. Jackson: 38 min, 5-6 ft, 5 ast, 16 pts
C. Maggette: 33 min, 6-13 fg, 1 stl, 17 pts
R. Turiaf: 32 min, 10 reb, 4 ast, 2 stl, 4 blk
A. Biedrins: 23 min, 4-5 fg, 7 reb
C.J. Watson: 21 min, 4-6 fg, 2-3 3pt, 2-2 ft, 3 ast, 12 pts
M. Ellis: 30 min, 6 reb, 1 stl, 1 blk

The Bad
S. Jackson: 38 min, 5-13 fg, 2 reb, 3 to
A. Randolph: 6 min

The Ugly
M. Ellis: 30 min, 4-12 fg, 2 to, 5 pf

Best and Worst +/-
C.J. Watson: -1
R. Kurz: -19

Team Statistics
Warriors : Rockets
pts - 93 : 110
fg - 34-81 (.420) : 40-84 (.476)
ft - 19-23 (.826) : 23-32 (.719)
3pt - 6-151 (.400) : 7-18(.389)
reb - 35 : 48
oreb - 8 : 13
ast - 17 : 21
to - 9 : 12
stl - 6 : 5
bs - 6 : 1
fast break points - 5 : 10
points in the paint - 48 : 22

Boxscore
Highlights
Popcorn Machine's GameFlow

Notes

Ellis / Crawford / Jackson / Turiaf / Biedrins vs, Alston / Artest / Battier / Scola / Ming; no Azbuike, Wright, Belinelli, Williams
Turiaf gets a nice weak-side block on Yao
Artest shooting 40% from 3, 37% from everywhere else
Crawford starts off with 2 straight jumpers
if Yao gets the ball in the paint, it's almost always 2 pts
Monta hasn't taken a shot yet with 7:25 to play; has he even touched the ball?
Monta collects rebound and initiates fast break; does not try to attack rim as he used to do before the injury; wonderful dish to Biedrins on drive
Warriors get 8 sec. backcourt violation
Biedrins finishing nicely tonight
Monta hits his first shot, 12 ft jumper
Kurz in for Turiaf; 3:24 1Q, GS 16 HOU 14
Crawford's jumper continues to fall
Brooks feeling confident vs. Ellis
GS 20 HOS 25 end of 1Q
Morrow and Crawford hit 3's
GS 28 HOS 31, 8:20 2Q
Brooks playing well; so well Biedrins passed out of the paint when matched up with Brooks - !?!
Jackson gets technical for hanging on rim; 2nd most techs in the league
Biedrins gets technical
no fast break points for Warriors
Warriors shooting 47%; GS 38 HOU 42; 4:14 2Q
Morrow has play called for him and scores easily on jumper off double screen; do it more often Nelli
Biedrins gets 4th foul w/ 2:32 left in 4th
Watson takes a charge on Artest and immediately drills 12 footer on following possession
Turiaf gets callef for foul when Yao slams into a stationary Turiaf; bigs in fould trouble; Kurz in, no Randolph yet
Crawford hits a buzzer beating half court shot to end the 1st half
GS 51 HOU 53 end of 1st half
Jackson starts off 3Q with long jumper after Maggette offensive rebound
Biedrins gets called for 5th foul on 1st HOU possession
Ellis drives and tries to score off Yao and Artest...surprise, he gets blocked
Yao with 18 pts 7 reb
Crawford hits back to back shots, 1 of which is a 3pt
Turiaf gets another spectacular block
Maggette looking great
lead changing back and forth
Crawford starting to feel it
Jackson hits corner 3 to give Warriors 1 pt lead
GS 69 HOU 68; 5:39 3Q
Crawford with nice block on Alston; good defensive potential but needs consistent desire
Monta gets 3rd charge called on him
Monta 3-11 fg
GS 75 HOU 81 end of 3Q
Turiaf and Biedrins with 5 fouls each
Morrow with nice assist to Biedrins; opponents have to respect his outside shot, allowing him to easily get by man most of the time
Warriors could use a player like Landry...or Richard Hendrix
Anthony Randolph enters at 6:00 4Q
Randolph with the defensive board seconds after checking in; I hate Nellie sometimes - why give all the minutes to Kurz when Biedrins and Turiaf are in serious foul trouble; Kurz was not much of a factor, especially on the defensive end
Randolph gets 3 pt play to cut deficit to 9
like the active hands on the Warriors defensive end
Ellis gets jobbed once again, getting 5th foul; all of them questionable calls
Morrow comes in and airballs 3 pt attempt
Warriors can't hit shots late and Artest caught on fire
Brooks w/ 22 pts off bench, 8 ast
GS 93 HOU 107 end of game
Warriors energy level tapered off at beginning of 4th; should bring in Randolph to inject energy

Postgame Quotes

Don Nelson
On Tonight's Game:

“We battled hard. We stayed around for a long time. I have no complaints. It was a hard game to play after playing last night and we didn’t play well enough to win. We didn’t have enough juice but we hung in there. If we could have made a couple of shots in the fourth quarter and cut it down to six, we might have won.”

Jamal Crawford
On Tonight's Game:

“They went inside and then that opened their 3-point shooting game. Brooks really hurt us. Ron Artest hit some tough shots and really got their fans into the game.”

On The Warriors' Recent Play:

“We’re having to adjust on the fly since we’re just getting some guys back into action. Sometimes it looks okay and other nights it doesn’t. I thought we had a rhythm going the last three or four weeks. We have a lot of scorers and that is just what we do.”