Hardwood Paroxysm Playoff Preview: Houston Rockets

The Dream Shake - a Houston Rockets blog found this 4/18/2008 on hardwoodparoxysm.blogspot.com [flag]

It's hard to keep track of everything you need to know about all the teams in the playoffs. So we thought we'd do a quick and dirty playoff preview with our favorite bloggers. We asked a simple 20 Question survey to bloggers from all of the playoff teams, and got responses back from most of them. We continue our previews with the Houston Rockets. To preview the Rockets in the most optimistic ... [link]

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Yes, I compared the Rockets to Slim-Jims
Published 4/18/2008 by grungedave at The Dream Shake - a Houston Rockets blog
... You can find them here. And flood the comments - let the HP guys know that they are premature in trying to "bury" the 2008 Houston Rockets! ...

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