Yea i bet every night they talk about who gonna score her panties one night. They need some clutch members there to show em how its done. haha
I probably see 6-8 games a year in great seats and unfortunately he is right. The Houston Basketball crowd does not provide the energy for the players to play better. if the crowd can be 1/2 as loud as the Red Rowdies then the Toyota center would be amazing. I mean if you can clearly talk on your phone during the game without raising your voice then it's a dull atmosphere.
I see the Red Rowdies getting bashed in this thread. I just want to voice that I love the Red Rowdies! Ya'll get up for every game and it makes being there or watching on tv more fun. Keep it up!
The lower bowl is the worst. Never there at the beginning of games and always head out before the game ends. Most recent game I was at was vs Portland. The game wasn't really "in the bag" for the Rockets until 1 minute left but there were a bunch of people leaving at the 3-4min mark in the 4th. It's even worse when I get seats in the lower bowl and there's no one around.
I've been asked by other fans to please quiet down before at games. I once saw a guy take his two kids home in the second quarter of a playoff game because of shock at how loud it was. And also I've entertained an entire section before by being the one guy who yells joking/heckling stuff at a team. But I will say it got louder during our win streak, and I went to a the Jazz Rockets game IN Salt Lake City and you could hear a pin drop in there all game long, so it happens everywhere contrary to belief.
Red Rowdies are the main ones bringing consistent noise the reason they were created is because TC is always dead
Probably not bottom 3, but definitely bottom 10 for sure. Plus, the in-arena atmosphere is pretty bad. Everything's just so generic.
Cuban has put in a lot of work over the years to make the fan and community experience better in Dallas. Entertaining fans at games is hard work, and you have to have management that really gives a damn so that they can figure out what works and what doesn't in terms of bringing fans early to games and keeping them there. Hopefully Tillman fixes it over time, so far though I'm not aware of anything absolutely ground-breaking that he has done
I flew to Memphis for a game against the Grizz, and for bar hoppin on Beale. I must say the crowd there was worst than ours. More quiet. I know the whole arena could hear me yelling. They even put me on the jumbotron. Nice stadium, but the fan experience is blah. They did have a house band though. Rockets fans are quiet too. Just very little energy... i can only yell so loud! for so long
FAKE NEWS!!! This is just not true. It looks half empty sometimes in the FIRST QUARTER, not the fourth quarter. Come on man, no need to make stuff up. The seats start filling up by the second quarter.
It's impossible to defend how dead the lower bowl of the arena is on television. Every effort should be made to move fans into the seats that are visible on TV in order to create the appearance of popularity. These corporate seats should come with a clause that stipulates that if you're not seated at the beginning of a game, you will be moved to another seat of equal value once you arrive. Or perhaps if the ticket hasn't been scanned at all by the beginning of the second quarter, fans from the upper deck could be moved down into the lower bowl. Tillman is smart and I think he has incentive to change something, but Les really handed him a bad situation when it comes to attendance.
I don't buy the whole pricing issue. Yes the seats are expensive in the lower section. But tickets are expensive at NRG and those games are always full. There are obviously great Rockets fans that love their team, but as a whole, the Rockets are just not a passion of Houston in the same way that football and baseball is
From my experiences, every regular season game I've gone to over the past how many seasons it's the same story. Lower bowl shows up late and leaves early.
This is absurd. The Houston economy is in better shape that 90% of the cities that have teams in the NBA. Further the population demographics also are counter to your position. Houston has been hurt less than almost any other major city. He said he was concerned about it when he bought the team so I would assume he is working on it. I suspect that it isn't as easy to fix as everyone thinks. This, there are certainly worse situations. A lot of the problem is the actual arena itself. There is zero sense of intimacy or a connection with what is happening on the court. The old Summit was the complete opposite, you felt packed into this old and dingy arena on top of the players. There were no distractions, you were there to watch basketball.
I sit in those seats as well. Sidelines (not floor) and behind the basket. They are expensive so yes, higher net worth people sit there, but I hate to shock the world here...THAT'S TRUE OF EVERY NBA TEAM. You think if you go to OKC you can sit sideline for $50? It's expensive everywhere. The NBA is an expensive ticket. And here's more breaking news: businesses buy these seats in all NBA arenas and give them to top producers, sales people, execs, clients, etc. And here's MORE breaking news: those types of people are still fans and can be loud as well! This isn't a "people with good jobs aren't real fans" problem. That is so hilarious ridiculous.
This is a real thing. The arena feels very big when you are in there and is one of the more comfortable arenas I've sat in. The seats are definitely WAY more comfortable than Minute Maid or Reliant.
