Subject: Carl Landry

• Feeling a Draft

  June 29, 2007

• Supersonics vs. Rockets: Live-blogging with Jason Friedman

  January 21, 2008

• Want an NBA Title? Head East, Young Man

  January 28, 2008

• Rockets-Warriors: Hope at Last?

  January 30, 2008

• Q&A with Daryl Morey: Talking Trades in the No Balls Association

  February 8, 2008

• Rockets-Heat: A Pair of Pleasant Surprises

  February 22, 2008

• A Grief Observed: Yao Ming's Injury and the Rest of the Season

  February 26, 2008

• Rockets-Wizards: The Show Goes On

  February 27, 2008

• Rockets-Pacers: All Aboard the Chuck Wagon

  March 6, 2008

• Rockets-Hawks: Where 20 in a Row Happens

  March 13, 2008

• Rockets-Celtics: Requiem for a Streak

  March 19, 2008

• Rockets-Kings: The Art of Adelman

  March 25, 2008

• Rockets-Clippers: Ready or Not, Here Come the Jazz

  April 17, 2008

• NBA Playoff Preview: Your Guess Is As Good As Mine

  April 18, 2008

• Houston Rockets, 2007-2008: Requiem for a Season

  May 5, 2008

• Q&A with Daryl Morey: What’s Next?

  May 8, 2008

• Rockets Fast Break: Adelman Stresses Consistency at Point

  To Rockets coach Rick Adelman, consistency trumps contrast. When fans initially heard the Rafer Alston trade Thursday afternoon, much of the immediate reaction was negative. In addition to questioning the team going forward without an experienced starting point guard, many wondered why the team would trade away Alston's size for Kyle Lowry, another 6-foot jitterbug of comparable height and style of play to Brooks. According to Adelman, that's exactly the idea.

  February 21, 2009

• Rockets-Suns: Brooks, Lowry Bring Small Ball to Houston

  If the Rockets needed any additional evidence to the potential success of a two point-guard system, they only needed to look on the other end of the court on Friday night at Toyota Center. The Phoenix Suns (34-28) have been the model of up-tempo basketball in recent years, routinely playing small guards Steve Nash and Leandro Barbosa together to wreak havoc on opposing defenses with electrifying speed and dribble penetration ability. But three times in the past five games, the Rockets (40-23)

  March 7, 2009

• Carl Landry Shot in Leg, Not by Own Gun

  Photo by dubswede Carl Landry, the second year Rockets forward, was shot in the leg while driving home early this morning. And, no, he did not Plaxico Burress himself in the leg, somebody else shot him. The shooting happened at about 2:30 this morning. Landry was heading home after getting back into town from the team's win in New Orleans. According to Houston Police Department spokesman Kese Smith, Landry was driving his SUV southbound when a northbound vehicle swerved into him. He got out to

  March 18, 2009

• Rockets-Magic: Landry makes triumphant return

  Photo courtesy of Jeff BalkeIt was just over three weeks ago that Carl Landry was running for his life, attempting to dodge bullets from assailants who sideswiped his car, punctured his left calf and chased him until he hid between a house and a fence, waiting for emergency help while blood gushed out of his leg. On Tuesday night, Landry was finally back to running in his favorite setting - up and down the Toyota Center hardwood. The second-year Rockets forward returned to the floor and b

  April 8, 2009

• Rockets-Magic: Landry Makes Triumphant Return

  Photo courtesy of Jeff BalkeIt was just over three weeks ago that Carl Landry was running for his life, attempting to dodge bullets from assailants who sideswiped his car, punctured his left calf and chased him until he hid between a house and a fence, waiting for emergency help while blood gushed out of his leg. On Tuesday night, Landry was finally back to running in his favorite setting - up and down the Toyota Center hardwood. The second-year Rockets forward returned to the floor and b

  April 8, 2009

• Carl Landry Shot in Leg, Not by Own Gun

  Photo by dubswede Carl Landry, the second year Rockets forward, was shot in the leg while driving home early this morning. And, no, he did not Plaxico Burress himself in the leg, somebody else shot him. The shooting happened at about 2:30 this morning. Landry was heading home after getting back into town from the team's win in New Orleans. According to Houston Police Department spokesman Kese Smith, Landry was driving his SUV southbound when a northbound vehicle swerved into him. He got out to

  March 18, 2009

• Rockets-Suns: Brooks, Lowry Bring Small Ball to Houston

  If the Rockets needed any additional evidence to the potential success of a two point-guard system, they only needed to look on the other end of the court on Friday night at Toyota Center. The Phoenix Suns (34-28) have been the model of up-tempo basketball in recent years, routinely playing small guards Steve Nash and Leandro Barbosa together to wreak havoc on opposing defenses with electrifying speed and dribble penetration ability. But three times in the past five games, the Rockets (40-23)

  March 7, 2009

• Rockets Fast Break: Adelman Stresses Consistency at Point

  To Rockets coach Rick Adelman, consistency trumps contrast. When fans initially heard the Rafer Alston trade Thursday afternoon, much of the immediate reaction was negative. In addition to questioning the team going forward without an experienced starting point guard, many wondered why the team would trade away Alston's size for Kyle Lowry, another 6-foot jitterbug of comparable height and style of play to Brooks. According to Adelman, that's exactly the idea.

  February 21, 2009

• Twitter With The Rockets

  Photo by Rudy E. Escoto(Note: This post is by our Rockets writer Ben DuBose. We're efforting, as they say in TV/radio, to fix the byline glitch.)Last Thursday, I told a friend I didn't understand the Twitter obsession and what it offered that, say, a traditional Facebook status did not. Less than 24 hours later, I relented and joined the masses.So, for the Twitterers out there reading, here's another real-time Rockets feed from your resident Rockets' beat guy: http://www.twitter.com/BenDuBose. Y

  April 13, 2009

• Rockets Left To Wonder What Could Have Been

  Photo by Keith Allison(Note: This was written by Ben DuBose.)The next time someone tells you that early-season games in sports like basketball and baseball don't matter, refer them to the case of the 2008-09 Houston Rockets.The No. 5-seeded Rockets were one game from having a dream path to the Western Conference Finals, at a minimum. They were one game from a No. 2 seed, home-court advantage in the first and second rounds, a Southwest Division title, and most importantly, avoiding any possibilit

  April 16, 2009

• Rockets-Portland Game 4: Hayes Takes One For The Team

  In a gritty comeback effort that epitomized a team win, it seemed only fitting that the game-winner came from a Rocket whose only contribution to the box score was a personal foul.With the Rockets clinging to a two-point lead with under 15 seconds left, Chuck Hayes read Brandon Roy's drive to the bucket, slid in and drew a charge, extinguishing the Blazers' best chance to tie the series and giving the Rockets a thrilling 89-88 win in Game 4 at Toyota Center. The Rockets now own a commanding 3-1

  April 27, 2009

• Second Round Preview: Lakers Defense May Pose Biggest Threat To Rockets

  The Rockets finally got the first-round monkey off their backs  last week, so what did the NBA give them as a reward? Only a second-round date with the prohibitive title favorite Lakers, beginning tonight at 9:30 in Los Angeles. It's a terrifying matchup by nearly every quantifiable method. The Rockets lost all four games to the Lakers in the regular season. Ron Artest made headlines with his constant trash talk with Kobe Bryant, but the talking was the only true competition. Bryant t

  May 4, 2009

• Game 3: Early Missed Opportunities Haunt Rockets

  The box score to Game 3 shows the second period as the only frame in which the Rockets weren't outscored on Friday night at Toyota Center. But in reality, it proved pivotal in Houston's 108-94 loss, which allowed Los Angeles to take a 2-1 lead in the best-of-seven series. The normally dynamic Lakers missed eight consecutive shots over a three-plus minute stretch. For the half, Rockets outshot the Lakers from the field, 49 percent to 46 percent, and from behind the arc, 57 percent to 40 perce

  May 9, 2009

• No Yao, No T-Mac, No Problem: Hayes Sets Tone As Rockets Tie Series

  Photo byJeff BalkeThe opening to the Rockets' player introductions sounded as unlikely and frightening as the task of defeating the vaunted Lakers without Yao Ming and Tracy McGrady. Somehow, "a 6-foot-6 center out of Kentucky" didn't deliver the same punch and energy as the booming "7-foot-6 center from China" usually does at the intro's finish.But Chuck Hayes has never worried about outside expectations. He's always been told he's too short and too physically limited to be a regular NBA

  May 10, 2009

• Despite Loss, These Aren't Same Old Rockets

  Photo by Katharine ShilcuttThe ending was all too familiar, but the ride was so, so different. Sure, history will show another Rockets season concluded without a title, this time on an 89-70 second-round, Game 7 loss to the Lakers on Sunday afternoon at the Staples Center in Los Angeles. And like so many seasons before, the 2008-09 campaign really ended when an X-ray displayed a fracture in a bone on Yao Ming's left foot.  "In games like this, it would have been nice to have a low

  May 18, 2009

• Being A Fan In Houston Basically Sucks, ESPN Reports

  Photo by Bukowsky18ESPN has put together another one of its Best Fan Experience lists, where they rank ballparks, arenas and stadiums for atmosphere, convenience, team success, and other highly arbitrary and pseudo-scientific categories.Houston doesn't come out too well.The top three are the LA Angels, the Carolina Panthers Hurricanes and the Pittsburgh Steelers; Space City doesn't make an appearance until the Rockets show up at Number 17.The Rocket analysis praises owner Les Alexander for

  July 2, 2009

• The Red Nation Manifesto, Honored Mostly In The Breach

  Photos by Monica Fuentes​The Houston Rockets hosted a party last night at Hotel Icon to celebrate the team's new Red Nation marketing campaign. Other than "alternative jerseys" for this year, the team -- as part of the campaign -- has developed a Bill of Red, "a document passed down from high and now ratified by the House of REDpresentatives."Hair Balls went to last night's event armed with the bill to see how well the party goers (we think about 200 people showed up) represented the Red Natio

  October 23, 2009

• Game Time: Woke Up This Morning, Got Myself LeBron

  ​Those of you who listen to my show know that I am fond of placing the "occasional" friendly wager. While handicapping the day-to-day and week-to-week ebb and flow of a football, basketball, or (if you're really sick) baseball season can be enjoyable and, at times, lucrative (especially when betting against the bottom ten QB's in the NFL has turned into an ATM), where I have had the most success the last few years has been placing futures wagers on the over/under for total wins in a season. An

  October 27, 2009

• In Make-Or-Break Year, Rockets' Landry Looks To Fill Low-Post Void

  Photo by Jeff Balke​There's a popular belief in NBA circles that the third year is when a player makes the transition to stardom, if he's going to make it. Among point guards, that worked for Chris Paul and Deron Williams, and much has been said about Aaron Brooks making a similar - though smaller - leap. Through five games, Brooks seems on the right track, averaging 20 points and eight assists while directing the Rockets to a surprising 3-2 record. But slightly under the radar is Carl La

  November 5, 2009