For the love of Chuckie Brown, you clowns made me come out from under my rock!

It has the same impact, the reason is there are so many NBA games to play so even 6 wind or losses dont matter. I mean last 6er the rox went 10-0 and it had no impact, if Morey werent able to do the deadline deals for brewer and Josh Smith the Rox wouldve ended in lottery.

 

It is not just the numbers. A streak has a psychological effect. For example, you can say that a 12-0 run in a game is the same as hitting 4 3pt shots through out the game and the opponent not being able to score after each of those shots.

A 12-0 run often is a turning point of a game. Hitting 4 3pt shots here and there doesn't have the same psychological impact.

 

Yes it doesnt matter pls tell me what is the impact of these 3 losses that totally made NBA history? Did it prevent the Rox from winning against OKC? Did the Rox get disqualified from winning a ring in june? You keep getting angry but what is there to be angry about? Did you treat everyone you know to pizza last year when the Rox had a 10-0 start? So if you werent so happy you could die last year from a 10-0 start which is 3x more statistically significant than a 0-3 start this year why the F are you freaking out now? When we are past the deadline and the Rox have home court advantage are you still gonna rant about the 0-3 start that broke game history? Even if the Rox flame out and miss the playoffs are you still gonna remember the 0-3 start or are you gonna focus on more recent events? In an 82 game sample with 50 games being the minimum goal losing 3 games means jacksquat

 

exactly.

 

Ok, so if this is true how come the Rockets who were 0-3 was able to beat OKC who was undefeated at 3 wins? You're right there might be psychological effects however you are making a fallacy in that you assume the psychological effects of streaks themselves would be significant compared to other factors that significantly affect winning games like strength of opponents, fatigue, injuries, player talent etc.

You're right of course it's not just the numbers however this is the actually the problem, you have posters like Sf3isback looking at the 0-3 numbers and assuming the season is over less than 2 weeks before it began. If your objective is to salvage THIS season who would ****ing fire a coach and overhaul the front office for a 0-3 start right after training camp? The fallout from those moves alone would guarantee a lost season of contention, and yet you have posters advocating that same move while they rant about Dwight's window at the same time.

Not only that a lot of the stuff they're complaining about are extremely subjective and temporary. But if all these negative comments were objectively true how come the Rockets who had no offense, no accountability, with overweight Harden injured Dwight drunkard Lawson and stupid Morey suddenly beat OKC? I mean just because Harden is overweight now doesn't mean he won't be fit later on, just because the players don't get the offense doesn't mean they won't get it next game etc.

Maybe I just have higher standards from posters who have more than 1 bar of rep but I expect that as someone who has been here for more than a year, these posters wouldn't overreact to streaks that are 3 or less whether those are wins or losses.

 

tons of spot on points. qft

 

Great post to dampen the hysteria of those who think that the season is over after three games. So now when are we going to have the crazy post showing what percentage of teams who started 1-3, 2-3 or 3-3 etc. won championships like this proves something.

 

Season's over.

Trade everyone, then dump Morley.

Keep McHale. We need Love.

 

Some fans will always overreact, get very emotional, act irrationally, or lose ones sense of proportion after their team gets blown out, not once but three times in a row. That big red warning sign start flashing extremely bright and the sound is earth shattering. It's not the 3 game losing streak roslolian, it's the exotic blow out fashion in which we lost. They played some horrific uninspired basketball. When people sit around all day on a sports blog you can best believe their expectations are off the recto-scale. We're talking about a contender, not just an average team. And to start the season off in that manner drove a lot us crazy. hahahaha That's fandome 101

You're right though, if we're 17-3 after 20 games, those three blowouts will be an after thought. Well that's up until we witness our team getting blown out again.

 

So basically what you're really saying is:

Don't trade everyone, then keep Morley.

Don't keep McHale. We don't need Love.

Interesting....

 

Now your the one making up crap. You normally have solid points but come on. I can list upsets over and over daily in the NBA.

 

Thank you.

 

If the Rockets lost one more game than they did last year they would have been 6th seed. Some of you guys think you are so smart and really all you are doing is showcasing how little you know about basketball.

1 Golden State Warriors 67 15 .817 - x
2 Houston Rockets 56 26 .683 11.0 x
3 Los Angeles Clippers 56 26 .683 11.0 x
4 Portland Trail Blazers 51 31 .622 16.0 x
5 Memphis Grizzlies 55 27 .671 12.0 x
6 San Antonio Spurs 55 27 .671 12.0 x
7 Dallas Mavericks 50 32 .610 17.0 x
8 New Orleans Pelicans 45 37 .549 22.0 x

 

Excellent post...somewhat restores my interest in coming back to this site. The "rash of stupidity" is probably best exemplified by the multi-post defenders of the rash on this thread.

Thanks for exposing them further.

 

Truth is 0-3 was heartbreaking because they looked awful. They have a target on their backs after getting to the WCF. Let me show you how I don't see it as a sky is falling scenario.

Denver Loss- Denver came out hot, Rockets and Harden came out cold. Lawson was very timid as a PG. As they all said they just couldn't find their rhythm. 1st game of the season they should have blown them out per Vegas and they mucked it up. It DOES happen to start the season, so fine, one loss.

Warriors Loss- Harden again tries to force the issue against the Warriors to make a statement but FAILS miserably. He needs to learn to play the game to the point where he takes what they give him when things aren't going well. The Warriors are hitting on all cylinders and we are still trying to figure out new roles. (FYI Warriors beat Grizzles defensive juggernaut by 50, yeah they are good.) No real shame in losing to Warriors

Miami Loss- This is the one that really hurts because they looked liked they had figured it out then the wheels fell off and they couldn't stop the bleeding. McHale screwed up with his line-up. Harden went back to Chucker mode as Heat couldn't miss.

To me 0-3 wasn't that improbable of a start being we are adding Lawson and several guys have been MIA last couple of weeks so there isn't a lot of continuity . We'll be fine. This team needs to just get healthy 1st and for most.

 

I think expecting people not to be angry is kind of dumb though. It's like expecting someone who just got punched in the face to smile, lol. Ofcourse you are not gonna be happy you just got punched in the face. You know you are gonna live but you're still mad right? Let's just say that starting the season by setting the wrong type of record felt like a punch in the face to a lot of people. Yes the Rockets are gonna be OK, we know that, maybe not where we all expected but it still hurts and you're mad. It's pretty simple. So then you look back at some things that could've maybe not happened so you don't get punched in the face in the first place and you wonder why the hell didn't we do that. Why didn't we make those changes before? Because the things that worked are things people were complaining about them not doing game one.

 

Well, a 17-game winning streak in the NBA is equivalent to about 3 games in the NFL. No big deal.

 

OMG this is ClutchCity not Panic City. The Rudy T/ Hakeem Rockets won without the top seed.

 

I mean the championship or a playoff round. Not a game in RS.

 

OMG were down 3-1 in the conference semifinals. There's no way houston can win. oh wait.....