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The big guy in the red or the little girl in the bed?

Great little tear jerker from Jerome Solomon on Chron.com…

Makayla Henson was excited at the prospect of seeing a Houston Rocket.

Not just any Rocket. Her favorite — Chuck Hayes.

On Friday, she waited for him around the lobby on the 12th floor of Children’s Memorial Hermann Hospital as long as she could before tiring. Plus, it was time to get her bandages changed.

A week and a half after being burned in a frightful accident, Makayla isn’t yet back to full strength, but she wanted to be up to see someone she had seen only on TV.

Forced to return to her room, she was deflated. The tough kid has been having some tough days of late.

But her tears quickly dried up a little later when the hulking Rocket dipped his head and walked into her room along with team CEO Tad Brown.

It was a special visit.

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… despite his height!

Check out this video of one - really long - possession against Boston.

He’s just like a wall of granite in there… pure stubborness keeping KG out of the lane.

WTG Chuck

Boston owned a 31-22 advantage heading to the second quarter.But the Rockets turned the tables over the course of the next twelve minutes. Sparked in part by Chuck Hayes’ incredible defensive effort against Garnett, Houston’s D finally came to life and, as an added bonus, its offense went into peak efficiency mode, too.

Hayes, despite giving up at least five inches to KG, went toe-to-toe with the Celtics’ superstar, harassing him to such an extent that the previously scorching Garnett missed three consecutive shots with Hayes guarding him.

“You’ve got to give it to Chuck Hayes,” said Adelman. “I mean he came in that second quarter and he just battled Garnett when he really had it going, and I can’t give Chuck enough credit. He hasn’t been playing and he just took on the challenge and he kind of set the tone in that first half for us.”

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Much like posts in this blog… Hayes hasn’t gotten much time lately… I miss him.

That is all.

Chuck played some incredible man to man defense in the second half of the Portland game on Aldridge (his help defense was pretty good too) The shoulder injury wasn’t enough to keep him out though.

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On his shoulder

Rockets forward Chuck Hayes returned to the Rockets rotation on Friday, a day after his left shoulder briefly popped out of the socket as he picked up his sixth foul defending LaMarcus Aldridge.

Hayes has had problems with that shoulder since playing high school football and suffered the same injury during a training camp practice when reaching in to defend Joey Dorsey.

“When I retire and get old, I’m pretty sure there is going to be a lot of pain,” Hayes said. “I’ve had this since I was 16. It’s not really an injury. It’s just wear and tear, I guess.

“It doesn’t hurt so much when it pops out. When it pops back in, it really hurts. I drop my shoulder, and it goes back in. It will sting for a few hours, but then I do the exercises and get the treatment and it will be fine.”