In essence, I think your saying, dont make a bad trade and give up prized assets. But I would like to think a good trade is out there.
If they wanna sell insanely priced tickets, suites, and mixed drinks at a higher rate, they better ****ing care. I promise you our ownership cares a whole lot about that.
Would be interesting to see how his ticket sale does because the Rockets were average to below average even when Harden played.
Not sure where you're getting that. The Rockets sold over 99% of their seating capacity in 2018 and over 100% of their seating capacity in 2019. https://www.espn.com/nba/attendance/_/year/2019/sort/homePct
By playing and relying on Jalen Green as much as we are, we clearly aren't serious about chasing the play-in lmao
Exactly you have to be smart. Not seeing where the nets pick ends up may not be smart at all. Some of the same exact people that were saying trade ALL of the picks this last draft for proven vets are now saying that Cam Whitmore is the next superstar. I’m not saying keep every single Nets pick but those are a lot of swings at players that could stretch out a long run of winning years for the Rockets.
he’s the weakling for sure, but what is the alternative? Bullock has been disappointing. Whitmore is too early on the learning curve. Oladipo is probably cooked for good. We just don’t have a legit SG.
Go back to 2017......some year was better than others so it was inconsistent at best. Oh I also went with Total and not Percentage, looks vastly different..........or even Average. Also basketball arenas have by far fewer attendance seats than soccer or football stadiums. They charge more however the gap closes.....
yup, and lets face it, we lost the wemby sweepstakes, picked green over scottie barnes, and we have to worry about okc building a dynasty, while we have no superstar yet. Sengun is a nice player and may get there one day, but i doubt hell ever be the best player on a championship team. Unless amen thompson magically becomes a sufficient shooter, we are still looking for our superstar. We need as many swings at that in the draft, and need to have assets to trade once that superatar comes along.
More swings at draft or better person at drafting. For the top picks they went with the more safer consensus choices except those haven't been home runs.
According to this Rox arena attendance is already just 500 below 2018 levels: https://www.espn.com/nba/attendance Most Rox fans are happy where the Rox are now play in or no play in. They see the bright future of the team and are already coming back. Ironically the ones who feel most entitled are the ones who had little to zero faith on this rebuild 3 yrs ago but now feel like they are owed vip seats on the bandwagon.
They must have a small arena because if you go to Total and Average the numbers were not looking that great...... Percentage only tells you one side of the story.
Percent of Capacity Sold by Year Pre-COVID 2015: 101% 2016: 99.7% 2017: 94.1% 2018: 99.2% 2019: 100.1% Not sure why we see the drop in 2017, but it's remarkably consistent otherwise in that stretch of years.
It tells you the only story worth telling. The Rockets had massive input on capacity and design of the arena that the county funded. Can't sell much more than 100% without it being a fire hazard. Demand is buying what supply is selling for the most part according to those percentages...they can't buy more than supply is willing and able to sell.
I do not understand why the Cavs had a total of 843042 (823k) and the Rox 716k in 2018.....and it is not like Cleveland is a bigger city..... Or Portland, Oregon, had 795,328 in the same year........ those are all average or below average sized cities. You could always charge much higher ticket prices.
Based on what? Whitmore has displayed clearly superior efficiency scoring the ball. Would much rather open him up to a larger role and let him grow/learn/make mistakes early than continue holding on to the hope Jalen Green becomes competent after 3 years of failing to do so.
It doesn't have to do with the size of the city...it's the size of the arena's seating capacity. Arenas aren't all built with the same seating capacity. The Rockets sacrificed more seating for essentially turning the entire lower sidelines into a club section. They did that because they believed doing so would bring higher revenues. There are also size considerations and constraints based off the size of the plot of land the arena is built on.
I understand some of it but it is truly baffling how the numbers are so lopsided......but one has tolerate it.
Given that the Rockets are valued at $4.4 billion, which is 8th among 30 teams, I think they're tolerating it ok.
