64. When you have to trade away Shane Battier for risky "upside" and you have to take back a player that you already gave up on because you know you don't have enough firepower to compete in your own division. 65. When you have to chase a player in free agency that you don't need and that is redundant to players you already have just to keep one of your competitors from getting him and using him to whip your tail next season. 66. When you watch one of your chief competitors who is already an accomplished defense team add even more perimeter quickness to make them even better defensively, drop dead weight salary on their roster and then add several dead eyes marksman that can flat drain all the long jump shots that you give their team every time you play them (ahemmm, Phoenix) 67. When you lay awake at night in a cold sweat thinking about how you are going to stop a 7'6" Chinese monsta man that can actually shoot the ball and nail his FTs and cannot possibly be contained except with a double team. 68. When you bring in a 23-year-old kid who is making $10 million per year and giving you 6 points and 9 boards just so you can have some 6 foul fodder to throw at one of your division competitors. 69. When you lose two 7 footers that give you 12 fouls to use against the best center in the league and you are scrambling to find somebody to replace them with. 70. When you lose in the Finals and then realize that you don't have a chance to get back there unless somehow Houston has another unprecedented rash of injuries like they had this year, because they really were better than you the year before and you got lucky taking a 7 game series from them. 71. When you are scrambling around trying to figure out how you are going to meet payroll, while trying to come up with a plan to create enough salary space just to retain the players that you currently have, all the while realizing that you do NOT have the pieces to match up against a 7'6" dominant low post force and your maximum salary superstar player is trying to come back from a career threatening injury. 72. When you've got 4 big men making over $10 million a year each, and two of them are coming off injury, one of them is injury prone, and on top of that he has a bad attitude to boot. And none of them match up worth a hoot against a 7'6" giant down south. 73. When you cannot find any takers who will trade for an undersized low post banging power forward that you signed a couple years ago, who has been injured and off the court more than he has been on and the best move of your offseason has been re-signing a habitually injured shooting guard that is slow afoot and drafting another guard with a crooked arm. 74. When you are thinking that you will just go with Kwame Brown at center for the upcoming season (just basically throwing in the towel on stopping Yao) and you are struggling to pick up a player, any player, that will make your rotation better so that you can compete for maybe the 8th playoff spot. 75. When your best move of the offseason was re-signing a 36 year old slow as molasses point guard for 2 more years at like $13 million or so and you still have NO answer in the middle against Yao Ming. And the only player that you do have gets his lunch ate by Ming every time you play the Rockets and next year the Rockets will be healthy with even more pieces around Yao to have to deal with. 76. When you have just won the Finals from the Eastern Conference and you are trying to pry a player away from a team in the other Conference simply because you need his skills so desparately and on top of it you need to make sure that that Western Conference team doesn't get him because you cannot match up against them in a possible Finals showdown because your "most dominant ever" is on a slippery downslope and can no longer compete with the new risen "most dominant now" player. 77. When you realize that the next time you double team Yao, he is going to be throwing the ball out to shooters that shoot OVER 40% from 3 point land. 78. When you saw the improvement in Yao's game the last half of the season and you were having trouble stopping him before that even. And then you remember McGrady is coming back too. 79. When you are in any other NBA city and you realize that the Rockets were a 50 win team last year if they had just stayed healthy and now they are adding some crazy skills to their roster and will be shooting for 55-60 wins in the coming season and home court advantage throughout the playoffs. What a bunch of mealy mouth bandwagoners.
81. when Willis85 posts a ron burgundy sound bite on every single thread because his infatuation for ron burgundy has surpassed his love for the rockets.
Stay classy, Dwangboy. And in San Diego, one anchorman was more man then the rest. His name was Ron Burgundy. He was like a god walking amongst mere mortals. He had a voice that could make a wolverine purr and suits so fine they made Sinatra look like a hobo. In other words, Ron Burgundy was the balls.
84. When people start threads and post videos about Yao, T-Mac, and Deke using chopsticks at Yao's restaurant
87. You got the hookups http://graphics.jsonline.com/graphics/sports/gen/img/wallpaper/12805/james1024.jpg
