This is a pretty sick play.
Author: John Paulsen (Page 134 of 937)
Watch as this goalkeeper tries to stop a penalty kick.
Just visited with Aaron Brooks. Said he’ll be out four to six weeks.
The Rockets are 1-5 and can ill-afford to lose Brooks for any length of time, though they have one of the best backup point guards in the league in Kyle Lowry.
Complicating matters, the Rockets play five of their next six (and 14-of-23) games on the road.
Houston is scoring well (112.0 ppg, second only to the Lakers), but they’re giving up the second-most points as well. Their FG% allowed (44%) isn’t bad, but the Rockets are 26th in the league in defensive rebounding, so teams are getting loads of extra possessions.
I saw a funny line on Twitter yesterday that went, “At some point, Philip Rivers is going to drop back, look down field and see nothing.” With all the injuries the Chargers have suffered to their receiving corps — Malcom Floyd, Legedu Naanee, Antonio Gates — Rivers is seemingly running out of options, but you wouldn’t know it by the numbers (295 yards, 4 TDs) he put up against the Texans. I mentioned rookie Seyi Ajirotutu (4-111-2) as a good desperation play in my weekly Love ‘Em & Leave ‘Em picks, and I wish I would have taken my own advice. (I picked up Michael Jenkins instead, on Falcon super-fan Anthony Stalter’s advice. Thanks for nothing, Stalter.) Randy McMichael (2-23-2) caught only two passes, but they were both TDs. Ryan Mathews (11 touches, 60 yards) had a nice thing going before he left the game with an ankle injury. For the Texans, Owen Daniels was a scratch and Joel Dreessen (5-66) had the second-most yards of any Texan receiver. Andre Johnson (4-41) was quiet.
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