If the NBA all-star game was played tomorrow T-Mac would be a starting guard. That’s right Houston, T-Mac is second in the Western Guards category right behind Kobe Bryant. A man who has not stepped foot onto the court is currently having a better season than the majority of players who have played. Of course this is not literally true due to the fact that the all-star game is fan decided but it’s still a slap in the face to many good players. And if you listen to sportsradio 610 you might have heard me call in to give a quick rant about how this will only make his head bigger and probably cause more problems for the team.  T-Mac did say he was humbled by the fan’s response but who knows he might wanna stay off the court the whole season, he could win MVP.

19 points in a game for Kobe is awesome and apparently he’s injured, because that’s the only reason he would play poorly against the Rockets. Sure Kobe, whatever. He’s still going to play through the pain though because that’s just the kind of guy he is. Nevermind Aaron Brooks 33 point night or the unselfish playing of the Rockets. It seems that Kobe either wins games or he losses them, nobody else is allowed any credit good or bad.

The Rockets lossing last night to the Mavs 103-121 hurt so bad. It’s a game we could have easily won if we would have kept the offense up. But what I’ve been thinking about lately is our defense.

I know not everyone was a fan of Jeff Van Gundy, but the man gave us a solid defensive team. And for the last couple of years I thought there were still remains of that defense lingering around. This year we are no longer a defensive threat. Rick Adeleman, who is a great coach, is an offense coach. I love a team with a stingy, hard working defense. We need to be able to D up if we want to win the tough games this year.

The Houston Rockets (3-2) are actually off to an impressive start. Tonight they lost a heart-breaker 102-103 to the Lakers in overtime. It stinks that this game was not nationally televised because it was amazing. There has been so much talk of how the Rockets were not going to be nearly as good as they were last year without Yao and T-Mac. This team is good though. Trevor Ariza is playing great, everybody is starting to find their place on the team and there is plenty of room for growth on this team.

This game was tough to swallow, but the toughest thing is that our good team will probably not get any national respect because of the fact that there are no super stars on the roster.

Also, what’s up with booing Artest? Basketball is business. The guy signed with a team with a better chance of winning a championship. If you learned Yao would be out all season, you’d want to go to another team too. The man was a huge part of our team last year and I think many fans just forgot that.

I hate to be cocky but I will anyway because I enjoy it. I went 9-4 this week. I might not be the best sports writer/blogger but I’m having some success picking winners so far. For those following along at home I’m 75-41 this season. That’s around 65 % and that has to be pretty good. The Sports Guy, Bill Simmons, is 71-44-1 so far this season. This guy is smart and I only bring him up because he obviously does this stuff for a living…and I have a better record. I honestly have been avoiding his blog, which is great, just to avoid being persuaded by his picks. And I haven’t been on his blog until today. I mean he picked the Broncos, Bills and Browns this week. All picks I went against. Heck, I don’t even know how the man tied a pick…

Now let me be clear: I’m not better than Bill Simmons, you shouldn’t use this as some sort of reference to bet and since I’m bragging my picks might be bad for the last half of the season.

I’m going to go to sleep. I feel good about my first half picks and the Rockets beat the Jazz tonight. All you fools who thought the Rockets were going to be some chump team can chew on that. G’night.