Eight-Second Violation: Wednesday, December 24, 2008
holiday viewing guide by zach harper
Okay. We all need to stick together on this. Christmas comes with a lot of pressure, commitments, and responsibilities through the holiday. For those of you who do not celebrate the holiday due to philosophical or religious beliefs, consider yourself lucky this year. For those of you who do celebrate it, consider yourself screwed. The NBA has provided us with four potentially fantastic games and one match-up that looks like it will be over by the time Grandpa passes out. Here are the games with times and stations: New Orleans at Orlando, 9am PST on ESPNSan Antonio at Phoenix, 12:30pm PST on ABCBoston at LA Lakers, 2pm PST on ABCWashington at Cleveland, 5pm PST on TNTDallas at Portland, 7:30pm PST on TNTOther than the Wizards-Cavs snoozer, that is a loaded day of basketball. Unfortunately for someone like myself, I will be bouncing around from home to home on Christmas Day trying to hit up as many people in my first and second family as possible. Between my family and my girlfriend’s family, we’ll be fitting three different houses (her parents, her grandparents, and my parents) into 12 jam-packed, egg nog soaked, tinsel laden, gift-wrapped hours of holiday and magical bliss. It would be much easier if I knocked up my girlfriend in a Shawn Kemp-on-the-road role-play kind of way and made everyone convene at our house but much like Calvin Murphy, I just can’t support kids at this point in my life. So with the hand that has been dealt to me, between the great basketball and traveling around the city of Sacramento, it appears that I will miss out on a great day of basketball. Or will I? Check Out the Guide to Watching Christmas Day Basketball
cleveland cavaliers 99, houston rockets 90 by zach harperthere seems to be running theme the houston rockets that hasn’t passed up this latest version of the line-up from clutch city. tracy mcgrady is ineffectual in big games, yao ming can’t stay on the court and the reserves get overmatched by a good conspire during a key stretch in the ball game. and that happened to a degree last vespers all the time in cleveland as the rockets failed to ration out the cavs their first cuttingly loss of the mellow. yao ming battled foul weigh down throughout the game and only managed 23 minutes as he scored 19 points and made it to the free throw over line 13 times (making all 13 attempts). tracy mcgrady scored just four points against this vaunted cleveland defense as he was bothered by crisp rotations and the defensive stylings of delonte west throughout the ball nervy. ron artest who was supposed to give the rockets that big third weapon came off the bench to score 14 points on just 5-14 shooting. rafer alston was defeat in the starting lineup and led the rockets with 20 but if he is leading your team in scoring, you unquestionably aren’t successful that game. for cleveland, when they went into halftime tied at 47, it felt like they were one warm run from busting this game wide open. the rockets were flat offensively, yao was in vitiate trouble premature, and the rockets were running the offense through luis scola. lebron james sparked a 16-6 run to close out the final six minutes of the third quarter with nine points of his own as the cavs took a comfortable seven point lead into the fourth quarter that jumped as high as 12 before settling in at nine when regulation ended. lebron finished with 27 points, nine rebounds, five assists, and three steals. mo williams scored 23 points and daniel gibson finished with three threes off the bench. the cavs are still perfect at home in 14 games and are 20 games over .500 on the year.
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