Home court advantage

Rockets fans are loud and great...when the team plays well.

This is Houston. Pessimism is ingrained.

 

It bothers me seeing how many empty seats there are compared to the other top teams in the NBA.

 

Did you watch or go to any playoff games last season?

And I'd imagine that the crowd will be pumped Friday night as long as the team shows up to play.

 

Yeah a lot of empty seats last night. I wish fans up front would be like those morons at NRG, dressed up in their costumes/face paint slapping the mat up near the goal post. That annoys me BTW, it just seems stupid but whatever, I wish Rocket fans would do something like that, those who are up front.

 

Admittedly no.

Too much crying going on in the GARM this morning. Apologies for jumping the gun.

 

Those Texans fans are middle class folks who are $40k in debt because they love football that much. The folks in the lower bowl are upper class and don't really care much for basketball but buy the tickets as incentives

 

Again... I don't know how often it needs to be told by folks that have attended NBA games in other cities but.... I unfortunately am based out of Dallas, and have attended many Mavs games.... The TC crowd, and the TC experience is very good. Its not as rowdy as an OKC game, or as annoyingly obnoxious as a Spurs game, but its definitely not the bore that a Mavs game, Wizards game, Hawks game, and a Nets game is (or how a NJ Nets game was).

Give me the TC experience all day. Its a perfect balance.

(the whole "why don't fans in the lower bowl show up on time" thing just has alot to do with the oil and gas industry's corporate tickets. They pay good money to Les, and he's happy to accept the guaranteed revenue, but those clients getting free tickets could care less about showing up early for tip off).

 

They should try moving home games to 7.30 PM and see if that helps. With Houston traffic and construction everywhere it's very tough for everyone to show up at 7.00PM

 

100% this. Last night the crowd was begging for anything to get them amped up. Beverley came in and made a few nice plays in a row and the crowd was ready to explode, but the team couldn't string together enough good offensive and defensive plays to keep the crowd active.

 

They tried that and PEOPLE STARTED LEAVING EARLY.

Midway through the fourth quarter the lower bowl was empty

 

TBH I don't care about the lower ball. They're not die hard Rockets fans. They're not there primarily to watch every minute of the game. They're there to hang out, grab a beer, some food and socialize while maybe catching a few glimpses of the game. These are big money corporates getting free tickets and reserved seats. You can't change them. They come and go as they want.

What's more concerning is the empty seats above the lower bowl which are going at cheaper rates. I expect those to be filled up.

 

I blame Les. The lower bowl club section is ridiculously expensive and caters to corporate partnerships.

Unfortunately basketball courts are tiny, so soccer, football, and baseball don't have this problem.

 

need to go back to 7;30 tipoff... when harden gave his opening season speech the stands were maybe 40% full... do they not know about the traffic from 4-7 in this city?

 

I was at the game yesterday, and was actually pretty happy with the crowd - aside from people leaving their seats at halftime when they were specifically instructed to stay seated while we honored Moses.

All in all though, on nights like last night, it's hard to get mad at the crowd. There were a few moments when the stadium got really loud, the team just didn't give the crowd much to cheer about.

 

houston has some of the worst fans in professional sports

 

I wouldn't say worse i would just say the most sensitive.. Houston fans overreact very easily...
Plus the Texans always disappoint
Stros are just now gaining steam again.
Rox fans are very defensive bc so many ppl hate the team.

 

The crowd didn't look that great, but I wasn't there so I can't really say anything.

Not saying this applies to OP, but people who complain about attendance while not going themselves are ridiculous.