Take their oxygen off.

Unless by cushion you are refering to an assured 8th seed at least.

covers him on D? Lamarcus?

Roughin’… bring him out for the three-quarter court sprint flying, two-legged dropkick to Yao. That would seel the deal.

A few games with quality minutes might shake off some confidence and bring that jumper we read so much about last summer.

will be important…esp with brooks at the pg.

But he’s extremely limited as a basketball player. He’s proof that there’s a point of diminishing returns with size. Shaq is the exception to the rule; most people, if they’re truly massive, don’t move well. Yao lacks speed, quickness, and stamina, and he’s injury prone. Sad to say, he’s not a franchise player, in my opinion.

roy is quick enough to get his shot off over these giants, but like jscot is saying above, gotta’ make ’em from the charity stripe if you miss.

but that being said, Greg seems twice the offensive rebounder that Yao is, so we’re losing a decent chance at another possession if we drop him out. Someone get me a stat to back that up

they would never diss another blog in this forum.

Yo, Seijefff……. since you seem to be the arbiter of journalistic excellence…

where’s your blog?

(and if F-bombs scare you, you might wanna stay away from the Internet.)

But knocking my blog because it didn’t have pre-game analysis up 5 hours before game time? Really? Do you think this is my full time job? Because I make about 8 cents an hour based on the amount of time I put into this, and I do it with a 50+ hour a week corporate job and 2 kids. Dave, Tom nor I are professional writers, but we’ve built this blog up, completely in the precious spare time that we have to over 1000 readers a day. That’s a far cry from the 16K+ that BE gets, but comparing us to them is like comparing a small business to a Fortune 500 company. We might get there, but it will take years of work.

Our blog is certainly not for everyone, but we like it, and we work very hard at it. If you don’t like it, I still appreciate you taking the time to look. The game preview is up now, maybe it’s what you are looking for.

We don’t ban cussing at our site, it’s not my style, but I understand why Blazer’s Edge does. I respect this site and it’s founders/writers/moderators greatly, as much as I do from any site, and that includes non-blog. The work done here is phenomenal. We’ll never reach this same apex, but we will try.

And Yao is always the biggest threat, against every team. It amazes me how anyone can discount him still after all these years. He is a beast.

As a writer for The Dream Shake, I have the most respect for Blazer’s Edge in the world. Ben does a fantastic job with the media coverage and spoils the readers here with access that “most bloggers just dream of,” as Lee often says. As for Dave, he’s one of the smartest and most thorough writers on SB Nation, and as a BE reader, you’ll get the deepest analysis possible on a game preview or recap.

The Dream Shake isn’t BE, nor do we wish to be. We are much simpler, much more off-the-wall, and we cater to a fan base that has been thoroughly disappointed by our team’s play for the past four or five seasons. Not to say that we aren’t still huge fans who root for the Rockets in every way imaginable, but I think it’s safe to say that we all figured the Rockets would have gotten past the first round of the playoffs by now.

As for myself, I’ve written a few long, in-depth, AaronStampler/Dave/Steve Weinman-like posts in my day, but I don’t have the stamina, time, or sheer brains to do what they do on a daily basis. It’s why you guys (as well as CelticsBlog and PTR) are in such good hands with those writers. But our readers appreciate what we do (I hope), and they’ve come to expect the fact that while we won’t provide them with Ric Bucher-like analysis, we will certainly give them something to discuss and talk about. Our job as bloggers is not only to merely inform, but also to entertain. Anyone can go to Rockets.com or read the local newspaper for pure information. We like to extend beyond that.

In addition, we don’t have as many readers as BE, so our expectations are much lower. It goes without saying that we like it that way ;-). But we always welcome new readers, as long as they have something productive to say.

As for the cussing thing, I’m not big on it, and as our site grows, I’m going to start putting a lid on it (at least F-bombs…I can probably find better words to use). Dave will do what he wants, and so will Lee, and it doesn’t matter to me. We’re a blog, not a newspaper.

But BE might as well be both a blog and newspaper. That’s how great this website is.

Obama has bumped my Blazer Game!

NOOOOO!