Rockets go Clubber Lang on Blazers

ROCKETS WIN 92-74.  Hey woman!  Hey woman!  Bet you stay up at night dreaming about a real second round!  We treated the Blazers like they were Rocky Balboa.  The game (i.e. Adrian) could have been theirs, but we took it from them.  A little disrespectful, perhaps, but straight to the point and effective.  Men with mohawks and chains take what they want. 

 

Not only does Von Wafer have the mohawk, but he also went all Altered Beast on us last night and rose from his grave.  

Rise from the grave. That's what badasses with mohawks and chains do.

Some random thoughts about the game:    

• Stat of the Night:  In the playoffs, the Rockets are 4 and 0 in games they win.  That’s impressive.
• A Deke sighting!  God bless that old man.  And a James White sighting.
• Brandon Roy is really hard to root against.  LMA is playing like a man, too.  My favorite non-Rockets are: Roy, Danny Granger, and CP3 (current playoffs notwithstanding).  My least favorite non-Rocket is: Tracy McGrady.
• The Yao/Brooks pick and slow roll for a dunk in Q3 was the best play of the series.
• Scola is a borderline all-star.  We’ll all be complaining next year about his snub because he doesn’t inflate his stats.  Mark my random words.
• The Celts/Bulls game didn’t end until halftime, meaning everyone in Houston had to watch half the game on My20, which looks even worse on an HDTV than standard.  Does My20 realize that analog was outlawed in February?
• Throughout this series, I’ve wanted to assisinate make play better Aaron Brooks and Ron Artest.  Even during game 1, I thought Brooks was lucky rather than good.  He was starting to remind me of The Franchise. I was all about starting Mike Kyle Lowry and bring Aaron Breezey off the bench for some change-of-pace instant offense.  Nevermind.  Also, Artest had his one amazing playoff game.  I’m a little worried how his agent uses it this summer, though.  Remember Austin Croshere in 2000?  He parlayed one good playoff series into something like $80MM.  That was the worst thing to happen to the Pacers until…Ron Artest.  The symmetry is symmetrizing.
• Carl Landry is bizzack.  As Randy Jackson would say, “Dude, to be honest, dude I just wasn’t feeling you in the series so far, I don’t know dog.  But tonight?  Tonight you rocked the house, dude!”  Sorry, The Random Baby Momma is catching up on Idol via DVR.  Randy Jackson uses “dude” more than any other black guy I know.  And I went to UH, the second most diverse school in the nation.
• Shane Battier is the only player whose +/- is usually higher than his point total.  He also has a degree from Duke in Religious Studies.  He’s probably the best person ever.