I was thinking about the future with Marbury-Crawford-Ariza and I was thinking about how Ariza'a clean up style fits in with them. Maybe he turns out to be a JYD type in the future. If he could improve his jumper, play more under control, and add some strength. That trio could be very deadly.

nothing makes me feel better than beating the Nets. NAZR is the second coming! He just gets stronger and stronger as the season goes along!

Good game actually I thought for us. Nets make everybody play lowscoring games, they play really good D, but can't score, tonight was not an exception. Actually I thought we scored relatively a lot against a team that generally plays games in high 70's low 80's and was involved in several games that ended int he 60's.

Obviously they do somethg that works to limit the scoring on both sides against the rest of the NBA, too, not just us.

Like BRIGGS said, first time we won a game totally with defense. Granted it is the Nets, but it is a good sine to at leat beat somebody with defense, no matter who.

Besides, Nets were playin well coming into this game, I think on like a 3-1 strech. In the East thats good enough to challenge for 8th seed lol.

Mad props for Mohammed, he is getting bettery every game it seems, and I'm talkin bout defesne, I don't really care about his scoring, I'd actually rather he only attempted dunks and tipins. But if his shotblocking continues to improve as it has recently, we don't need any other center, we just need a lowpost PF. Sweetney needs to step it up and live up to the summer league promise.

Also, nice recovery again, it was lookin like last year's playoffs for a good portion of the 1st quarter. Seems to be a pattern with slow starts these days, did the same against the Nuggets. On one hand it is a bad thing to start slow, on the hand, it seems Lenny has awaken from a long slumber and is actually making in game adjustments, which I havent seen him do succesfully at all so far.

Tommorow we face oue demons and attempt to sweep the back to back for it seems the 1st time in like 4 years. Piston have been playin badly, so we might be able to beat them at home. I think it will all come down to Houston abiltity to shoot over the top of a defense, as that is the only way to consistently score on the Pistons. Good thing we rested him tonight, I'm expecting big things out of him tommorow.

Posted by diderotn:

When will you all and Lenny be smart enough to notice that our starting lineup is in desperate need for a defensive change? This team always gives up big leads all because they show no defensive abilities what so ever. Our starters are all offensive players believe it or not. Yes, some of you claim that Kurt is our best defender, but I am here to remind you all again, that Kurt is not a freaking defender. JYD is badly needed to complement our front-court.

I'm not arguing that TT doesn't deserve to start, and I definately would not argue if JYD , but I don't think it cost us any games.
JYD brings some great hustle off the bench and re-energizes our players. His play is not affected by whether he starts or not. The only thing I would complain about is if he is not getting the minutes, but he is.

I'm just happy to be back over .500, let's see how we fair against the Pistons tonight.

I read something and it said marbury had the flu. I was wondering why he was sitting in the bench