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Your NBA boys have proven most beatable and are again pushed back to the brink.  You may have heard, one more loss in this series staredown with Utah and there is no more series with Utah nor season for the Rockets. 

With no more margin and playoff survival at stake, Rick Adelman and Daryl Morey have pulled every stop and pleaded to The Bloggorrhea for assistance, banging for the slightest bit of ad to take to the home court Tuesday night.

And The Bloggorrhea is more than willing to bounce a pass to a backdoor cutter.

Points are obviously coming at a premium in this set and as hard to generate as an Obama back-slap in Kennebunkport.  Four games and not more than 84 points in any of the Rockets' three defeats.

As posted previously here, but again for emphasis, the Rocket remedy - be decisive in the half court.  Pass it, drive it, shoot it , move it.  Move the ball and in turn move the Utah slow-footer defenders, open lanes to the basket.  Kill holding the ball then dribbling side-to-side then hoisting horrible no-shot jump shots deep in the shot clock.

Forgive The Bloggorrhea for being redundant.

Stop stop stop the ball-stopping.  Be decisive and swing swing swing the ball.  And then, go to the paint.  Or go home.

McGrady can be productive in his perpetual fragile physical state but he's going to shoot 9-24.  And miss 3-5 free throws.  Secondary scorers are critical to a return ticket to Salt Lake City.   Bobby Jackson could still be an X-factor although his accuracy (15-52) is right now X-rated.

Swing swing swing, attack attack attack.  Mixed with what the Rockets already have in place, that's the ticket to Game Six.

Two days away from an official May day, may day is now sounding throughout Rocketville.  The international signal of extreme emergency, derived from the French maidez meaning "help me."  Protocol say to repeat three times.

Your NBA heroes must win and repeat and repeat or the beat of first round floundering continues.

Pass it, drive it, shoot it, move it.  Swing, swing, swing.

Rick and Daryl, your welcome.