Charlotte Bobcats @ Houston Rockets


The Bobcats made a terrible game against the Magic last Friday scoring only 80 points. They were embarrassed at home in front of a sellout crowd and I expect a better performance tonight. Head coach Larry Brown has little tolerance for dumb basketball, and this was dumb, selfish basketball. His team finished with more turnovers (16) than assists (14):

"We didn't pass the ball. We wouldn't pass the ball," Brown said, starting a monologue of three minutes. "We had so many possessions where we had one pass and a shot. Or no pass and a shot."

Calm but firm, he explained how his team didn't care to share the ball Friday, how most possessions involved a single pass and some involved no passes. Then Brown pointed out that Felton and Augustin took 29 shots (making nine.)

Felton will try to bounce back today after a dismal performance: "I didn't get us into the offense,"; "Plain and simple, my fault."

I expect the Bobcats to do a lot better today while being more focused in sharing the ball, of course I don't expect them to hit the century mark points but remember that we are dealing with a 182 points line. The Bobcats are getting lower numbers on the road and they are 4-0 Over L4 road games mainly due to those low numbers. When they failed to score more than 80 points in the season the Over is 6-3 which tells us that they usually give a better effort in the following game.

Today they will face the Rockets that are coming from a nice win against the Mavericks in a very physical game. They won 93-86 in a low scoring game and facing a lowly team I expect them to be more focused in the offense. Offensively, the Rockets want to use Brooks' and Lowry's speed more, not just in fast breaks, but in getting into their halfcourt offense:

 "We're trying to push the ball up and not walk the ball up," Adelman said. "The people we have off the bench, the two point guards we have, it's to their advantage to get it up the court. And if nothing is there ? then we've got Yao as our anchor. He's a guy we can go to at the end. And it helps him (to) where he doesn't have to try to get down the court and get banged every possession..."

The Rockets are 15-5 Over off a home win this season and this is the kind of game that the Rockets can "relax" a bit because they have in their desk tough games vs Portland and Cleveland after this game and I can see this game going above the 190's points. Take the Over in here.

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