Posted by diderotn:

I have finally watched my team play tonight. I was a little disappointed with the performance, but the end result is acceptable. What in the world is wrong with Tinny Timy? I have called for this guy to be one of our all-stars and he is proving me wrong so far. He took a lot of bad shots and didn't show any defensive intensity. Marburry too pissed me off. I don't know why Lenny or Isiah is trying to take Marburry out of Marburry. This dude is an attack pg, therefore let him play his game. He is trying too hard to become a player that he is not. With Houston out and TT badly struggling, we need Marburry to be an agressor.

A win is a win, but we need to perform better to win the next game. Naser and Kurt Thomas played pretty well tonight. Ariza is young, but this dude has a whole lot of talents. Jamal took some bad shots also, but he redeemed himself at the end.

I want to see the Marburry that we all know, the attack dog.

Thank God that we pull this one off.

Posted by OldFan:

My take:

Naz - About the best I've seen from him. Great job on the boards - did about as well as could be expected against Yao. Needs to improve his help defense (though, it's tough to help off Yao).

KT - Great game. His usual tough D and rebounding and when he's hitting his jump shot like that it makes a huge difference to the offense. I also have to question his help D , just because there were a lot of drives where no one was there.

TT - Tracy is great but it was ridiculus how poor TTs defense is.

Marbs - I though he played ok. Seems some wanted him to drive more but I thought the paint was pretty packed. (Also, I think YAO has more of an impact then his number of block shots would indicate. Guys like KT and NAZ get some blocked shots because people don't fear them and challenge them all the time. Guys like Yao get blocked shots inspite of the fact the most guys won't even drive if they see them in the lane.)

Crawford - Still has bad shot selection. His D is not great but unlike TT was working at it. The last shot was lucky - but I give him and the team credit for getting back into it in the fourth quarter to give themselves a chance to get lucky.

Aziz - He's an athlete. McGrady abused him a little but he's a rook against a superstar.

Sweeney - Didn't do much.

JYD - hardly played. I thing in some situations he should get extended play but I tend to think he is over-rated my most on this forum. He is decent and hustles, but I would never try to have him cover T-MAC or compare him to Ben Wallace.

Overall our defense is bad. Even given our lack of shot blocking and undersized two - our man to man and especially our help defense could be much better.

Our offense could certainly use a healthy Houston but I was impressed with the relatively good ball movement at times and lack of turn overs. There was one sequence in the fourth quarter that ended with a KT jump shot that reminded me of the old glory years of Reed, Frazier, Bradly...