Come in, Houston
Question: Who is Houston’s leading scorer? (Answer below)
What’s up, folks?
Sorry to jump on so late today. I have to get cranking on a couple different things – a story about the Hawks’ second team for tomorrow and then a notes column for Sunday – so not much time today.
Hope you all are doing well.
A couple links:
Sekou’s blog off of last night’s game.
Ken Berger’s column for CBS Sportsline. (I met Ken after the game last night at Manuel’s with AP writer Paul Newberry and former AJC staffer and now nba.com freelancer Matt Winkeljohn. Ken bought my Sprite, so kudos to Ken.)
Matt’s story for nba.com.
A little shout-out to the Hawks in Ball Don’t Lie.
A Fox Sports column by Charley Rosen.
The view from South Florida and the Sun-Sentinel.
Lastly, you can check out Al Horford on TNT tonight at 8 p.m. for the pregame with Kenny Smith, Charles Barkley and Ernie Johnson.
Looking ahead
Mike Woodson’s take on the Rockets:
The fact that hey don’t have Yao (Ming), they have become this solid team that, defensively, they get after you and offensively, they get up and down the floor making shots. They can score the ball too. We’ve just got to be in ready to defend for 48 minutes because they can score. They’re averaging, I think, over 100 points a game, too. (Ed: 103.7) Somewhere along the line, somebody’s going to have to defend to win this game. I like the makeup of their team because you don’t know who’s going to get you. They’ve got a few pieces that they all can make offensive plays.”
Sorry I don’t have time for much more. I’ll have more tomorrow.
Ken
Answer: Props to you if you knew it was Trevor Ariza, a free-agent signee from the Lakers last offseason. After mostly coming off the bench with 8.9 points per game last season, Ariza is averaging 18.4 per game for the Rockets, who are the fourth team he has played for in his six NBA seasons.
(Apologies if that difficulty of that question was WAY beneath you. I’m still learning the waters here. Maybe the question should what teams has he played for.) (Wikipedia fact: Ariza’s high school team had five future NBA players on it – Hassan Adams, Brandon Heath, Bobby Brown, Gabriet Pruitt and Ariza. That’s crazy. You could have been a Division I player on that team and would have had to come off the bench.)
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324 comments Add your comment
Melvin
November 20th, 2009
7:58 pm
Its the Marvin Williams Show….lol…
niremetal
November 20th, 2009
7:58 pm
He’s baaaaaa-aaaaaaaaack…
The Hawksta
November 20th, 2009
7:59 pm
They are feeding him and he is finally feeling it! Yes we needed this bad fellas!
Sam from da Swats
November 20th, 2009
7:59 pm
Yeah Marvin, earn your number 2 pick status…
vava74
November 20th, 2009
7:59 pm
I’m new over here… who’s that guy with jersey no. 24???
bigdave
November 20th, 2009
8:00 pm
MAAAAAAAARRVVVVVVVVVVVVVIIIIIIIN!!!
grandad… here he goes…
Melvin
November 20th, 2009
8:00 pm
It the great words of Nique’ “Marvin is cooking with grease”…. Will Rod come on the blog tonight…lol
The Hawksta
November 20th, 2009
8:00 pm
If I was Houston on defense I’d be like where the hell was this in the scouting report
Sam from da Swats
November 20th, 2009
8:00 pm
He’s back from where Niremetal? The dead?
Hawks Fan In New Orleans
November 20th, 2009
8:00 pm
Houston we have a problem, its MARVIN WILLIAMS!!! Welcome back buddy!
terrell barron
November 20th, 2009
8:00 pm
Marvin is on fire. Huh Rod? lol!
Blast
November 20th, 2009
8:02 pm
Woody ain’t gonna like that rookie mistake!
vava74
November 20th, 2009
8:04 pm
sloppy Teague…
niremetal
November 20th, 2009
8:05 pm
Enter your comments here
niremetal
November 20th, 2009
8:06 pm
To the way he was playing before he got hurt last year, Rod.
Najeh Davenpoop
November 20th, 2009
8:06 pm
Houston is staying in this game by hustling and crashing the boards on offense. They actually have a very similar game plan for success as the Hawks, just with about half the talent. Still, chances are they will keep executing, and the Hawks are not going to win this game on talent alone.
Props to Marvin. That was a hell of a quarter, let’s see if he can keep it up. The Rockets only have one Battier, so if he’s on Joe Johnson, Marvin can make them pay.
Sam from da Swats
November 20th, 2009
8:06 pm
Wow, one quarter and you guys say he’s back. Back from where? HE’S SUPPOSED TO BE PLAYING LIKE THIS….He’s back from what? He hasn’t done sh*t his whole career..
Sam from da Swats
November 20th, 2009
8:07 pm
Niremetal, this is not Rod numbskull.
The Hawksta
November 20th, 2009
8:09 pm
Crawford seems like he brought his lunch tonight
Blast
November 20th, 2009
8:10 pm
And I’m not sure Houston has the depth to match Hawks. I see Hawks wearing them down eventually.
Najeh Davenpoop
November 20th, 2009
8:10 pm
Now THAT was a superstar move by Joe Johnson. There are very few players in the league who can make that shot.
niremetal
November 20th, 2009
8:12 pm
You can try and fool as many people as you want, Rod. But I KNOW that “Sam” and “Rod” are the same person. You slipped up and used the same computer to post under both names. Should be more careful about that in the future. I don’t really care how many other people you try to fool, but I’m not gonna play the game anymore. And even if you hadn’t made that slip, anyone with a brain would conclude from your writing style, frequent use of “clown,” and singleminded obsession with Marvin would figure it out.
But hey, have fun trying to fool other people. I don’t care enough about your feelings or your opinion to care anymore.
Blast
November 20th, 2009
8:13 pm
Celtics playing lots of one on one basketball. They won’t beat Orlando playing that way. 15-6 Orlando.
nvnvnv
November 20th, 2009
8:14 pm
Charlie Murphy with the block!
Melvin
November 20th, 2009
8:17 pm
Nire,
Normally I try to stay out of others agruments (at least I think) but I can voch that Sam and Rod are separate persons and Sam is a die heart Hawks fan….
The Hawksta
November 20th, 2009
8:17 pm
Andersen should be a Hawk? Don’t know what happen during his contract talks
Melvin
November 20th, 2009
8:17 pm
*vouch
Najeh Davenpoop
November 20th, 2009
8:19 pm
David Andersen looks pretty good on the offensive end, but quite lost on the defensive end. Not saying he wouldn’t have helped the Hawks, but I’d rather have Zaza and Joe Smith.
The Hawksta
November 20th, 2009
8:19 pm
@Nire! You are hilarious! You know Rod’s in the closet!
Sam from da Swats
November 20th, 2009
8:19 pm
Niremetal,
You are an idiot dude. I am not Rod. I know Rod, but I am not Rod. We just both know that Marvin sucks. Any real basketball guy will tell you the guy sucks. I hope the guy plays well, that means we are really unstoppable then.
Sam from da Swats
November 20th, 2009
8:20 pm
Is it me, or is Joe getting to the hole at will on Battier. Yeah Marvin, play like you’re a number 2 pick!!!!
Najeh Davenpoop
November 20th, 2009
8:20 pm
Keep feeding Marvin on offense please. Milk this for all it’s worth.
niremetal
November 20th, 2009
8:20 pm
Then they just happened to use the same computer to make posts? Ah whatever. I suppose they could have had a Marvin haters’ convention at some point, or one could have posted using they other’s name. Whatever. My bad if it’s true, but that stretches credibility for me, and I never intend to have a visual verification.
The Hawksta
November 20th, 2009
8:21 pm
Bailout foul ref! That was a bs move by Landry
The Hawksta
November 20th, 2009
8:22 pm
Maybe they are brothas from another mother(he! he!)
The Hawksta
November 20th, 2009
8:23 pm
Uh oh! Nire he said he knows Rod!? Maybe you got something here
The Hawksta
November 20th, 2009
8:25 pm
SAM, Rod isn’t posting so we gotta believe….
Blast
November 20th, 2009
8:25 pm
Josh needs to slow down. He’s playing too fast right now.
niremetal
November 20th, 2009
8:27 pm
Doesn’t it feel like we should be up more than this? We’re playing well, we’re not missing shots, and we’re a much more talented team than they are…
nvnvnv
November 20th, 2009
8:28 pm
That was a blocking foul…he didn’t charge. BS
Najeh Davenpoop
November 20th, 2009
8:28 pm
Nice dish by Joe… he led the receiver like Peyton with that one. You don’t see a whole lot of passes like that in half court offenses.
niremetal
November 20th, 2009
8:28 pm
*not missing open shots
Sam from da Swats
November 20th, 2009
8:28 pm
Hawksta, me and Rod have posted at the same time before and this fool still believes we’re the same.
Ken Strickland
November 20th, 2009
8:31 pm
That beautiful baseline cut without the ball by Crawford, and the insuing pass from JJ, is something you never would have gotten from Flip.
Najeh Davenpoop
November 20th, 2009
8:32 pm
When you see Ariza go one-on-one, you can really see that he has picked up a lot of tricks from Kobe. He missed it, but that turnaround jumper he just shot was straight out of Kobe’s arsenal.
vava74
November 20th, 2009
8:32 pm
Who cares if Rod is Sam or whatever.
Marvin is a good player and anyone claiming otherwise does no sh*t about basketball.
He is still under development and was in a funk. Now he is looser. He is probably not as good as he is playing right now, but he definitely is not as bad as he was playing before. i
Najeh Davenpoop
November 20th, 2009
8:33 pm
Marvin!
Could tonight be a new career high for him?
Melvin
November 20th, 2009
8:34 pm
Marvin, 20pts in the 1st half… My goodness, he’s cooking that expensive grease…
Sam from da Swats
November 20th, 2009
8:35 pm
vava74,
Marvin is a decent player, but not a great player. Number 2 picks should be great players. Don’t you agree?
Sam from da Swats
November 20th, 2009
8:36 pm
And I am sooooo happy he is having a good game tonight… If he has more games like this, the Hawks will really be unstoppable.