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Out-of-sync Rockets take tumble
LAREDO - Tracy McGrady just didn't feel right.
Maybe it was because he was playing in a new offense with new teammates.
Maybe it was that he never is at his best in the preseason.
Yao Ming felt even worse, but he knew just what was wrong.
He had gotten caught in an arm lock with San Antonio's Rasho Nesterovic,
heard it crunch as it hyperextended.
He came back to play 25 minutes but will have an MRI today and said,
"I'm scared."
With just one more preseason game to fix their problems and the start of
the regular season looming in less than a week,
the Rockets did more than lose 79-69 to the Spurs on Wednesday night before
a sellout crowd of 9,137.
"Our starting group got hammered," coach Jeff Van Gundy said.
"They scored 22 points to start the first and the second half.
We have to share the ball more.
Yao getting seven shots, it's not going to work that way.
"It doesn't have to be (so ragged).
If we continue to play like that, I guess it will be.
It's not like that on the practice floor.
The lights aren't on, the stats are not kept, people are not evaluating us.
We've just got to gain more and more discipline in our game,
individually and collective, play more as a team on both ends."
The Rockets made only 29 of 80 shots and four of nine 3-pointers,
but in many ways, their offense was even worse.
By the time San Antonio coach Gregg Popovich cleared his bench,
the Spurs led by 12 points and the Rockets had made only 22 of 67 shots.
After sitting out Saturday's game at Orlando,
McGrady got plenty of time to find his touch
Wednesday night and did have a few moments that could have triggered something.
He nailed a 3-pointer to give the Rockets a halftime lead
and viciously threw down an alley-oop.
But his struggles do not appear to have as much to do with
his shooting eye as they do with finding his place in the Rockets' offense.
He made only six of 23 shots, taking many to beat the shot clock.
"I'm kind of out of sync right now," McGrady said.
"It showed tonight, it really showed tonight.
It comes with the territory when you change teams and teammates,
when you have to get a different offense down pat,
instead of thinking, we have to be playing and just knowing our spots
and just playing ball. Right now, we're doing too much thinking."
With that, McGrady offered a hint as to why he is not too concerned.
"My preseason is always like this," he said.
"I'm never off to a good start. But when the season starts, I'm clicking.
I don't know what it is about preseason, but I'm never good."
Yao's night could have been much worse.
Although he was escorted to the locker room by team doctors and
returned to the court holding his left elbow,
he showed no signs of the injury once he was back on the court.
He had a solid night, scoring 13 points on 5-of-7 shooting,
grabbing 11 rebounds and getting three blocked shots.
But he also seemed to be struggling to find his place in the offense.
"We've basically taken two teams and thrown them together,"
Yao said. "It will take time to get chemistry and rhythm together.
If you look at the Spurs, they've had that chemistry.
We just took apart our team and put another together.
That's something that has to develop."
For the Spurs, Tim Duncan had 15 points and nine rebounds in 31 minutes.
Manu Ginobili struggled, making only two of nine shots and finishing
with eight points.
But even with the Spurs playing far from their best,
their starters whipped the Rockets' starters,
leaving the Rockets with a sense that time to "develop" was running out.
"We have to play a lot harder," Van Gundy said.
"Playing hard and playing unselfishly on both ends can overcome
a lot of stuff."
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