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Who is our biggest rival next year?

Discussion in 'Houston Rockets: Game Action & Roster Moves' started by Spacemoth, Aug 8, 2013.

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Which team will you consider our biggest rival next year?

  1. San Antonio Spurs - Should be some incredible games next year.

    22 vote(s)
    9.0%
  2. OKC - Harden finally gets an even fight in his quest for revenge. Plus PatBev deaththreats.

    121 vote(s)
    49.4%
  3. LOLakers - Just to shove Lakerfans' tongues down their throats.

    44 vote(s)
    18.0%
  4. Utah Jazz - Each year they are in the lottery, Utah fans call it rebuilding. I call it justice.

    8 vote(s)
    3.3%
  5. Miami Heat - To be the best, you gotta beat the best.

    17 vote(s)
    6.9%
  6. NY Knicks - Jeremy Lin's revenge tour will never end. Plus their whole team are punks right now.

    2 vote(s)
    0.8%
  7. Portland Trailblazers - The LaMarcus Aldridge sweepstakes! Every little bit helps.

    1 vote(s)
    0.4%
  8. Dallas Mavericks - Mark Cuban. Uncle Nate Fitch. Just Say No to everything Dallas stands for.

    3 vote(s)
    1.2%
  9. Other - Maybe you really hate the Denver announcers. Explain yourself!

    27 vote(s)
    11.0%
  1. Spacemoth

    Spacemoth Contributing Member

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    Before you make your decision, go to this ESPN link where Jeanie Buss says, "if only dad were still alive :( ." Then take a second to gather yourself for the unprecedented Haterade that follows:

    It's strange, how one team gets so much crappier yet talks all that much more trash. All the while, the Rockets made the biggest improvement of any team this offseason, got the best player, and you don't hear any bragging from our side. No boasting about Not One, Not Two, Not Three or even anything close. You don't even see our players calling shots the way the new Nets players are doing. You have to believe our guys are just taking all the hate in, just breathing it in deep and letting it simmer.

    Because come game time, we're gonna be the ones trucking fools. We're taking names this year. For myself, I'm gonna particularly enjoy sending those cheaptalk bandwagon Lakerfans back into their holes, never to come out for another half decade while Kobe and Jim Buss take turns burning that franchise to the ground. No amount of blowout will be enough for me to turn away from the TV if it's the Lakers we're wrecking.

    What about you? Any compelling reasons to enjoy pummeling another team into oblivion this year? Utah is always a good pick.
     
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    Miami Heat.
     
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    Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
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    CSN Houston
     
  7. Spacemoth

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    The Astros?
     
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    Spurs, you have to be able to beat the best in order to call yourself a Championship contender.
     
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    This is not what defines a rival.
     
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    You included the Trailblazers and omitted the Warriors?

    I voted OKC.
     
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    After last year I think we have a bone to pick with Golden State, but your reasoning for Utah is a valid statement
     
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    OKC and its not even close. Bev sparking death threats, us embarrassing them by grabbing two games in the series, the Harden trade, bordering states...too much fuel for the fire!
     
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    Jazz. The focus should always be on beating the Jazz. It's blasphemy that this truth is not being recognized.
     
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    These are pretty tame compared to the comments they leave on his instagram. I hope Dwight goes 40/20 multiple blowouts (preferably all at Staples Center). Lakers fight tooth and nail, yet end up 9th seed and miss the playoffs. Then Lebron, Melo can turn em down and extinguish any remnants of hope for their franchise, while they desperately scrounge around the garbage bin for Farmar's and Kaman's to stay relevant. While Laker fans convince themselves that only Wesley Johnson was brave enough to withstand the bright lights and intense pressure of such a majestic dynasty.
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    The Clippers fans multiply and take over LA. Their numbers fade, and their enormous egos are forced back to earth. Natural selection slowly eradicates the Laker fanbase, and the remaining morlocks are forced to move to underground caverns where they cannibalize one another into nonexistence. The end.
     
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    Yea I forgot the Warriors. Originally meant to include them just for the entertainment factor last year. Problem is that they have never really been a thorn in the Rockets' side, unlike all the other (Western conference) teams above. Warriors are just gonna be another team that's young and talented that we happen to match up REALLY WELL against.
     
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    surprised GSW didn't make the list
     
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    Golden state. There's actual bad blood between our teams. That's very rare in today's game.
     
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    to be honest I think every team we play is gonna come at us hard especially the teams that wanted Howard (ATL,DAL,LA,GSW) OKC cause of the PB play on WB add us stealing Harden ...I think we might be hated like the Heat but for different reasons
     
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    So what would Laker fans be saying if Howard had chosen to resign?
     
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    that Houston is the worst city in America and that's why he stayed in LA
     

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