I'm just speechless

[Ryle]

Ron had the ball because he was on fire and had scored 37 points. The play was to set a pick for him, let him come off and get a shot. Ron was just holding the ball waiting for the play to develop and he just lost his concentration.

And Muss did call a timeout when the Rockets made their run -- I would have called it one earlier, but Battier got lucky with that crazy three.

Look, the Rockets are good. We're not. They shut Kevin down in the final minutes of the game. They have Tracy McGrady. We don't. That's a bigger problem than Musselman.

When the time out was called and I saw the game clock and shot clock were both at about 23 seconds I thought that was way too much time because I figured they would hold the ball until about 7 secs were left and they would run a play(the same thing that every other team in the league would run but the better ones execute that play). Considering Ron was awesome last night I would want him to take the last shot but I wasn't too crazy about him handling the ball .

 

[Miles and Miles]

I voted YES!!! Muss only had a couple of jobs left to do as head coach.

1. He doesn't do the subbing Artest does. That was obvious in the 1st quarter when Artest subbed himself out 5 minutes into the game and then came back 2 minutes later.

2. He doesn't run any plays the players make them up as they go along. I don't think the designed play is Artest taking a double covered 3 (granted he was making them) or Kenny taking a running hook shot. Or every other play going inside to Corliss.

What he does have left to do.

1. Call timeouts. He let the Rockets go on a 10-0 run late in the 4th with no stoppage. Why? With 38 second left in OT and 2 timeouts why didn't we call one? Why call one with 7 second left down 4, that's a bit too late.

2. Motivate his team. Lately they have looked a bit better prepared. But most of the year they look depressed starting the game or coming out of timeouts or beginning of quarters. Why?

 

[Kingster]

Um...why did Ron have the ball anyway? That's problem #1 right there.

You're right, it's not brain surgery.

That's why you have guards...to handle the ball.

He wants to get Ron the ball with 10 seconds left? That's fine.

Not sitting at the half court line with 24 seconds.

I've never been on the fire Eric bandwagon yet but that was plain awful.

The problem is, we don't have a point guard. Without Miller (our point center) and without a point guard, it makes it makes for a tougher situation.

 

[Kingster]

Gotta agree here. Kevin is the future here. Especially if we're going to continue to blow games like this one and not make the playoffs let the guy play as much as possible!

He played real well tonight. Kinda disappeared in crunch time, but the guy is still young and Artest was having a monster night.

I thought I read in the newspaper this morning that Kevin played 39 minutes.

 

[acisking]

The problem is, we don't have a point guard. Without Miller (our point center) and without a point guard, it makes it makes for a tougher situation.

Whether he is playing good or bad, Mike is at least capable enough to handle the ball on a possession like this. People argue that he is more of a shooting gaurd - but regardless, he has enough ball-handling ability to control the ball with time winding down.