Saturday, May 3rd, 2008 |
The Utah Jazz was coming into game 6 with not all the confindence in the world even though they were at home. The Jazz have the best home record during the regular season at 37-4 but the Rockets have had sucess beaten the Jazz twice already once in the regular season and also in the playoffs. Before the game started the Rockets had to feel good about themselves Tracy McGrady was playing at another level and Raford Alston came out to play as well this was a confendent Rockets team coming into game 6. The Rockets Tracy McGrady was hot in the 1st half McGrady had 28 points but the Jazz still had a one point lead 50-49. The turning point in the whole game was in the third quarter when the Jazz outscored the Rockets 27-11. For the game the Rockets shot 30-77 from the floor at 39% McGrady lead all scores with 40 points. The Jazz shot 46% 41-88 they had 7 Jazz players in double figures. Deron Williams lead the Jazz with 25 points . McGrady who is now in his career is 0-7 in the playoffs had this to say”It is what it is,” said McGrady, who faces more opening-round curse questions with every exit. “I thought we did some great things to put ourselves in a great situation to try to make this a series.” The Jazz start there series against the L.A. Lakers this Sunday in the Staples Center.
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Wednesday, April 30th, 2008 |
The label on Tracy McGrady was he is soft can’t count on him and will never perform when it counts. Well at least tonight McGrady showed the NBA world what he can still do. McGrady tonight for the Rockets lead all scores with 29 points as the Rockets who were facing elmination tonight beat the Jazz by 25. The Rockets came into the playoffs shooting the worse out of any playoff team at 39% and scoring and average of 85 but tonight the Rockets came home and were on point. They shot 47% 15-19 from the free throw line and outscored the Jazz bench 26-9. “We’re in a great situation,” McGrady said. “We know we can win in Utah because we’ve done it before.” The Jazz had a night they will like to forget shooting 36% from the floor with 18 turnovers the Jazz’s Deron Williams had this to say about the Rockets defense tonight.”They’re a tough defensive team,” Williams said. “We got away from our offense a little bit, especially early in the game. We rushed some shots. We have to realize what’s a good shot and what’s a bad shot, when to make the extra pass and when to shoot it. We struggled with that today and it’s something we can do better.” The Jazz and Rockets look to lock up again game 6 in Utah. Utah had the best record at home this season at 37-4 but the Rockets is the only team in the NBA who has beaten them twice in that building game 6 looks to be a classic.
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Tracy McGrady,
Utah Jazz
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Thursday, April 24th, 2008 |
The Utah Jazz for the regular season had the best home record of 37-4 a tough team to beat at home one of the four teams to beat them was the Houston Rockets but without Yao Ming and a not 100% Raford Alston the Rockets seemed to behind the eight ball and no way should the win tonights battle against the Jazz right? This is why sports has no script and the unbeliveable happends. Alston the point guard for the Rockets was the key with 20 points and 5 assist Alston was able to help McGrady who had good night 27 points 5 rebounds with 7 assist. ” The key to our win tonight was to slow down the game and kept it a half court game.” said Alston. As for the Jazz the leading scorer Deron Williams with 28 points 12 assist the Jazz shot the ball badly from the free throw line at 60 % 20-33. The Rockets are the only NBA team to beat the Jazz twice at home. Another key player for the Rockets was rookie Carl Landury who even losing tooth getting it knocked out by Carlos Boozer made a big time block with the final seconds in the game and by doing that got a kiss from Raford Alston to help the Rockets hold on to a huge win 94-92.
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Houston Rockets,
Tracy McGrady,
Utah Jazz
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Thursday, March 13th, 2008 |
Tracy McGrady at the start of this NBA season was considred by most who has followed his career as a disapointment. McGrady for his career has average 22 points has been a all star sevral times in his career but McGrady never has been able to become the big time franchise player that most experts and NBA fans thought he was set out to be. McGrady this season still didn’t change the minds of many fans and your’s truly McGrady was missing games couldn’t stay healthy and just seemed to be happy that he was just getting a good pay check but wasn’t a big time player. Yao Ming this season became the franchise player for the Rockets by avg 22 points and 10 rebounds. Ming became the go to man in the team not McGrady who by many took the punk move and no longer wanted to be the man on the Rockets. (more…)
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