Say what you want about TC but we never had Spurs or Mavs fans take over our arena like this in the playoffs
I don’t think Spurs or Mavs fans would take over any arena…Since when do they have fan presence like that? we had Tatum getting MVP chants in Toyota Center this year and Curry basically plays a home game here…if Knicks fans could travel to Houston as easily as they can from NY-Philly, then the Toyota Center lower bowl would be completely overrun and infested for sure in the playoffs
You can get from NYC to Philly in 1.5 hours via train during peak rush hour. You can make it from downtown Houston to Katy in 1.5 hours via car during peak rush hour.
Watching the game last night it seemed like the crowd was really big for a Sunday night. They were also loud. But the seats along the court were mostly empty. I hate that. The team is awesome enough and Houston rich enough to fill those seats every night! I've been frustrated with this most of my Rocket loving life. I get it when the team sucks, but it happens, and has always happened even when the team is good. Since we aren't socialists we would never give those seats to our proletariat brothers, but I think I've come up with a solution. I know this is not a solution anyone asked for, or even a problem anyone wants to discuss, but it's the bbs and I need a break from the steady drumbeat of picking franchise players and pooping on Ime. What if the Rockets organization gave every ticket buyer the option to enter a raffle for a courtside seat. "Upgrade your ticket purchase for $2 to enter into the nightly courtside raffle." The original courtside seat purchasers will need to confirm their attendance the day of, and if they don't, their seat, and all the seats that were empty to begin with, will be given to however many lucky fans get chosen in the raffle. Problem solved, and my chances of sitting courtside go up. Everyone wins. Now I can go back to my usual distraction of Youtube videos about Elden Ring instead of working on my marketing plan that might make me enough money to get courtside. Viva la Rockets. Cause this empty seat thing is embarrassing.
Size of the arena matters also. Teams like Thunders, Blazers and even Warriors have packed arena but their attendance ain’t that much different from us but since less seats in the arena it looks packed. Now I see lots of empty seat in Chase center (GSW) after they moved to new arena and crowd is not as lotus either. Suns even now have packed statism but they have less attendance than us
