Box Score
| Houston | |||||||||||||||
| Name | Min | FG | 3Pt | FT | +/- | Off | Reb | Ast | TO | Stl | BS | BA | PF | Pts | |
| T. McGrady | G | 42:24 | 14-27 | 2-5 | 3-4 | +4 | 3 | 11 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 33 |
| R. Alston | G | 33:05 | 4-9 | 0-4 | 2-4 | +7 | 0 | 2 | 9 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Y. Ming | C | 37:59 | 5-11 | 0-0 | 2-5 | +4 | 3 | 12 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 12 |
| S. Battier | F | 36:51 | 3-5 | 2-3 | 1-2 | +12 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 9 |
| L. Scola | F | 20:13 | 4-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 | -2 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 8 |
| B. Wells | 20:31 | 4-7 | 0-0 | 2-2 | +5 | 1 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 10 | |
| C. Landry | 16:35 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 | -3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | |
| A. Brooks | 14:55 | 2-6 | 1-5 | 0-0 | +1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 5 | |
| C. Hayes | 7:22 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | +4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |
| M. James | 5:36 | 1-2 | 0-1 | 0-0 | +4 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | |
| D. Mutombo | 4:29 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | +4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| S. Novak | DNP – Coach’s Decision | ||||||||||||||
| Totals | 38-75 | 5-18 | 10-17 | 10 | 50 | 24 | 11 | 4 | 9 | 7 | 12 | 91 | |||
| Percentages: | .507 | .278 | .588 | Team Rebounds: 8 | |||||||||||
| Milwaukee | |||||||||||||||
| Name | Min | FG | 3Pt | FT | +/- | Off | Reb | Ast | TO | Stl | BS | BA | PF | Pts | |
| M. Williams | G | 42:24 | 6-18 | 1-6 | 0-0 | -8 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 13 |
| R. Ivey | G | 26:30 | 1-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 | -4 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
| A. Bogut | C | 43:22 | 10-20 | 0-0 | 1-3 | -8 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 21 |
| Y. Jianlian | F | 29:51 | 1-10 | 0-1 | 4-4 | -8 | 2 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 6 |
| B. Simmons | F | 23:27 | 5-7 | 4-4 | 0-0 | -1 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 14 |
| C. Bell | 28:11 | 3-7 | 1-2 | 0-0 | -4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 7 | |
| D. Mason | 23:28 | 2-7 | 0-0 | 2-4 | -7 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 6 | |
| C. Villanueva | 18:09 | 5-12 | 0-1 | 4-4 | 0 | 3 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 14 | |
| D. Gadzuric | 4:38 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| M. Ruffin | DNP – Coach’s Decision | ||||||||||||||
| A. Storey | DNP – Coach’s Decision | ||||||||||||||
| J. Voskuhl | DNP – Coach’s Decision | ||||||||||||||
| Totals | 33-85 | 6-14 | 11-15 | 11 | 37 | 16 | 5 | 4 | 7 | 9 | 20 | 83 | |||
| Percentages: | .388 | .429 | .733 | Team Rebounds: 5 | |||||||||||
- The Asian Super Bowl: Like the real Super Bowl, in that neither of them could score all that easily. Yi had a case of the yips, 1-10 from the field. Yao got in foul trouble early and left the game in the more than able hands of Tracy McGrady, who dominated the game early and often to keep the Bucks from coming back.
- Another low turnover night was a good sign. Another good sign for this game was the 9 shots from Rafer Alston, who plugged 4 of them for his first time shooting over 40% since January 15th vs. Philadelphia, when he was 7-17 from the floor in a crushing home loss to the lowly Sixers. More importantly, it was the second time since after Christmas where he actually took less than 10 shots from the floor.
-From the Bucks perspective, not much to critique really; when you shoot 38% from the floor as a team, you aren’t often in a game anyway, so they should be thrilled that they kept it close. They did a great job with turnovers as well.
-In the big picture for the Rockets (uh, well, as big as possibly getting a mediocre playoff seeding can be), they continue to flounder in the 10th spot, but they are still just 6 games back from 1st seed Phoenix in what could be termed as a wide open Western Conference this year. They remain a game and a half back of both Golden State and Denver for an actual playoff spot, but unfortunately Golden State has been as hot as Houston recently and Denver just got Carmelo Anthony back. I wouldn’t go out purchasing any playoff packages just yet.
-Pick Apart Rick Adelman’s Minutes Allocated Segment: I don’t mind seeing Scola and Landry’s Hat more or less splitting time, but I think Adelman needs to go with the hot hand the second he figures out who that is. In other words, I’d want one of them playing 30 minutes or so and the other playing 18. Instead, they split the bit and defensive force Chuck Hayes continued to cut into their PT. Don’t get me wrong, I’m a big Chuck Hayes guy, but lets accept this team’s limitations. Yao is a force, McGrady is off and on, but with Alston and Battier out there, the team is more or less hoping and praying that one of them starts sticking three pointers. That leaves 2 consistent scorers and 2 guys I wouldn’t touch in the three point shootout at All-Star weekend. Putting Hayes out there just isolates McGrady and Yao even more, wheras if Landry gets the ball inside, he’s going to score, and Scola can stick 18 footers and is pretty respectable in the post in his own right.
Of course, there’s also the whole “playing Rafer Alston in the first place” thing, but lets leave that one aside for now. The Rockets need offense from the four to put up with Battier and Alston’s contributions.
-The Rockets finish out their midwestern road trip with a little trip to the Wolves’ den. Minnesota had been a joke this year, but have reached up from “historically awful” to a more mediocre 5-5 in their last ten, mainly off the back of Celtics cast-off Al Jefferson, who has torn up the net to the tune of 20+ points in 7 of his last 8 games and owns a shiny PER of 23.73. The main key to the Wolves recent run has been combo forward Ryan Gomes, who has started to see more playing time and has responded with 8 games of over 15 points in the last month. The Rockets will be hardpressed to find an answer for Jefferson, but Battier should be able to hold down Gomes.
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