1). This is a football state. 2). Rockets don't have a superstar to draw the crowds. 3). Only true basketball fans love watching the Princeton offense. 4). Bandwagon fans are gone.
The Texans have 8 home games in a season. Just 8. If the Rockets only had that many they'd have a good chance of selling out too, unless you have a history of just plain sucking. The Rockets are not the only game in a town where football is number 1 and baseball is probably 2. This team hasn't been a real, true threat to win it all for at least a decade. In the Yao Ming era they have had to scratch and claw just to get a lower seed and have only advanced to the second round once. Hard to keep fans with that kind of track record. The team is in a transition and is struggling to find an identity without a superstar. Hard to get behind something you don't completely believe in. It was almost painful watching them at times earlier in the year. And it's taken them almost the entire season to get above .500. Should mediocrity be rewarded? Simple. The team starts winning. And I'm talking about dethroning the Mavs and the Spurs atop the division. I'm talking about getting a high seed and advancing deep in the playoffs again. Championship would be nice. And I'm talking about on a consistent basis. They do that the fans will come again and they will be loud.
nothing against fat people, myself been fat but, when I watch houston games, thats all I see...in the words of Barkley, knuckleheads
Maybe it's the perspective of living in another state, but the Rockets aren't viewed as a joke team by casual sports fans. The Texans kind of are. Whether it's deserving or not I don't really know, as I'm not a big football fan. But it exists, and I think it belies the claim that the Texans are the best team.
well thats the thing, a casual sports fan only looks at results, they see the boxscore and form an opinion. as far as the texans being considered a joke, it stems from the horrible years of houston football overall. from the oilers final years here and the horrid inaugural years of texans football. casual sports fans dont consider the rockets titles legit because of the whole jordan thing..
I think the Rockets are middle of the pack in terms of percentage of seats sold in the NBA. Their average attendance puts them around 90% of capacity. So a basically-.500 team is in the middle of the pack in attendance - sounds like the Rockets to me. :grin: Seriously, though, I think maybe the numbers need to be looked into a lot deeper than "total attendance" figures. A lot of teams maybe have larger stadiums meaning there may be more good seats available. In other cases, you may need to look into whether the Rockets' prices for those remaining seats are higher than other teams' prices for similar seats. The fact that people don't get hyped up enough to go to NBA games in Houston has been going on forever. This is a football town, not an NBA town, but if there's a bandwagon to jump on with regards to the Rockets, Houstonians will jump on it. I think this was proven after the championship years when we sold out every seat for something like 4 or 5 seasons. 'And let's be serious, this team was not that fun to watch the first part of this season. They put up points, but it was torture to watch because they played no D. At least that part's changing a bit.
You suck. I am not spending my hard earned money to watch some half ass product. Put a better product on the floor and Ill spend the money.
The southern part of the United States does not really care for basketball....at least it seems that way.
we prolly were higher up during jvg's years, we were making the playoffs and we had 2 superstars a lot of the seats are corporate guys who buy tix for their clients and dont go to the games themselves (like my father). can't go to every game when you have a life, although if i had season tix and i didnt have to work every night id be at every friggin one if it put me on the streets to pay for it. on another note, i want to whine one more time about how STUPID the toyota center was the other night against the suns, chuck shooting two crucial freethrows up by 2...toyota center gets...LOUDER?! chuck misses, "aw" chuck gets ready to shoot number 2...toyota center gets...EVEN LOUDER?!!?!....chuck misses wtf do these people smoke b4 the game, or during the game
Realistically the difference between 16 and 20 is only 400 fans. Most of the cities ahead of us either have a great team, or it's the only game in town. Cleveland and Golden State are the only real exceptions, and we'll see how much longer cleveland keeps drawing, Cleveland was dead last in attendance before LeBron. Philly is 27th with the same record. http://espn.go.com/nba/attendance The rockets are a mediocre team, and they draw a mediocre attendance. Considering the franchise has won one playoff series in 15 years and doesn't really have a drawing card in a football first market.
1. it IS expensive. the last tickets I had were 225 a pop, and wouldn't have gone to those games if it weren't for my father and/or his clients, and it's lower bowl. (nothing personal against those who sit in the nose bleeds, I just think if that's the case I'd rather get a better view off of my HD tv) 2. it IS downtown. Most everyone I does not live close to downtown. at the closest, maybe river oaks or galleria area, but shoot..with Katy and Sugarland it's just not geographically. 3. FRANCHISE PLAYER?
Yeah! This is Houston, like, the most diverse city in the country! Those tickets need to go to rich fat MINORITIES. Or, if they want to make less money, fat minorities. But this is Houston. You probably couldn't even fill up a Fiesta parking lot with skinny people, so I guess your dream of not having fat people in Toyota Center anymore will just have to remain unfulfilled.
Why did you post a thread with a title that insults me and every other fan of the Rockets? As a native Houstonian who's lived in Austin the last few decades, who spends an unreasonable amount of money every year to watch the Rockets on League Pass, and has followed the team since the '70's, there's one thing I've known for a very, very long time. The people of Houston pack whatever venue the Rockets are using and cheer to high heaven if the team is winning and have a shot at contending. If they aren't winning and have no chance of contending, the place isn't packed, the corporate season tickets are only half used, and the cheers are muted, except for the diehard fans. That's how it's always been in Houston. That you don't seem to know that makes me wonder what the hell you've been doing as a Rockets fan. Taking a nap?
