Rockets lack firepower to defeat Jazz
Posted by brittany2 on April 23rd, 2008
The loss of Yao Ming did not stop the Houston Rockets from winning 22 straight games.
Houston also managed to win 55 games during the regular season, while its big man missed 27 contests.
But the Rockets now find themselves in a two-games-to-none hole in the Western Conference playoffs after dropping their first two contests at home to the Utah Jazz. Houston lost, 90-84, in Game Two on Monday.
The Jazz, who own the league’s best home record at 37-4, can close the series out with Game Three and Four at the EnergySolutions Arena on Thursday and Saturday, respectively.
Houston won’t make any excuses and Utah, which defeated the Rockets in seven games last season, is definitely talented enough to make a run deep into the playoffs - like it did last season.
Instead, with a pair of disappointing home defeats, Rockets fans are left to wonder in these playoffs, “what if” they had more scoring punch and if their magical run during the season is all for naught.