so people who dont feel like spending $150-300 to sit in the lower bowl and watch a lottery team are fairweather fans? smh...
ive been to a couple games this season sitting up behind the championship banners... i will tell you this.. the games a lot better on TV.. only way i'll sit in the lower bowl is if i get my hands on some company seats..
Disagree, the worst nosebleeds to sit are the astros games by far. nose bleeds at toyota center are the best IMO.
Doesn't this depend entirely on your definition of "Good"? Personally, I think this team is mediocre at it's core, and the fact that the org would trade anyone is not exactly making it worth while to watch or cheer for. Then you add in that they are not even playing the young guys or trying to develop much, it just adds up to a heaping helping of MEH. DD
I haven't been to a game since the JVG years, pre rowdies. It was one of the worst sporting events I had ever been too. Besides the team playing like crap and our stars being injured, the atmosphere was terrible. So quiet and boring.
We have the 4th SMALLEST arena in the entire NBA. You'd expect us to finish 4th last in attendance. We're 5th last. Overachievers?? [[ok - so by % full, we are 6th last - not great]]
Actually, odd stat, but we're 10th BEST in the league in terms of "away crowd %" --> that is, when we're playing away, other teams fans want to watch the games.
Many corporations own those lower level seats and thats why many of our games look half empty behind the benches. They should really do a better job at giving those tickets away to employees, or clients who are going to attend the games.
http://blog.chron.com/ultimaterocke...in-west-but-theyre-near-bottom-in-attendance/ The Chronicle had a good article about this and pointed to some important factors: 1. The TC has a small capacity, even when it was 97% or so full in 08/09, the Rockets were still only 16th in attendance. 2. Raw attendance numbers can be increased by giveaways and discounts. For example, the Kings gave away a ton of tickets for a national TV game recently for the event to look good. The Rockets don't do as much of it as some other teams. Their "paid attendance" is actually ranked 16th and the revenue per attendee is 5th. I recall hearing a presentation at the Morey geek conference a couple years back from an economist who said that it is not efficient for teams to heavily discount tickets to boost attendance when the market gets tough. My guess is that the Rockets are following a similar philosophy.
We don't have national TV games to give away tickets for... And I just don't understand people who say it's too expensive. If you are someone who checks 3 different grocery stores for same or similar items and has your wife clipping coupons every day then fine, you're a cheap ass and I'll move on from that. But for a couple of friends to go out to a game is honestly less expensive than going downtown for a night. For people who think you need to win more than one playoff series in order to get fans, I lived in Minnesota for a period of years, and they had very good attendance all through their first round exits. And this year they have high attendance again as a team that isn't performing nearly as well as we are. Look at their road attendance figures, people from other cities still think to themselves "oh, it's the Wolves" and don't go. We have people from other cities actually attending the games at a pretty reasonable clip (I know the data is probably skewed a bit from who exactly we've played against, but nevertheless people must think the games will be competitive and want to watch a near-playoff team compete). For people who think you need stars in order to get fans, just reference what someone said earlier about Yao and T-Mac. Now I understand in 2008-2009 we were high in % capacity, but one year of it in a decade of playoff basketball? The CHARLOTTE BOBCATS fill out 90% of their stadium in a market less than half the size of ours. With a product void of stars and victories. I'm just so sick of being a basketball fan in Houston, seems like the casual fan is negative, has absolutely no knowledge of the game (but acts as if their 8th grade traveling basketball experience guides their prophetic statements), and is rooting for the team, owner, GM, coach to lose.
I bought $10 tickets in the 400 section against the bucks and they moved that whole section down to the 100 for free. and it was a good show
Well if you are going to get all snobby then let's just say that Houston fans are not as easily amused as TWolves and Bobcat fans are. Go near-playoff team...go!
You pay for your internet service, you probably pay for your cable TV, you probably pay for a cell phone, etc... I mean let's not act like the majority of people spend their money wisely enough to say "I just can't afford to go to a Rockets game." I know people making 28k a year who make it to games with me. They just don't embody the debt crisis that plagues our nation. If Houston fans aren't amused at a winning team, then I guess I understand why NBA Tonight won't even give us a highlight when we beat the Memphis Grizzlies. So if the near-playoff team makes it to the playoffs, we can count on you still not being there I bet huh?
I don't know what it is, but this year is missing a lot of the "magic" that I'm used to feeling. Maybe it's the Texas success sucking the enthusiasm combined with the lockout and the lack of any stars on this team.
I've been a Rocket fan since the 70's. I'm not rooting for the team, owner, GM, coach to lose. I'm just rooting for the team, owner, GM to finally get some players here that they actually want instead of perpetually planning the next trade which will set up another trade which will maybe give us enough cap space to sign this guy so we can trade him for these two guys which will give us money to sign this guy, and so on, and so on, and so on..... Fans like me will support the team - win or lose - if we know the players fit into our long-term plans and aren't just being showcased as trade bait. Wake me up when you're finally done perpetually chasing that next deal and you get some players here that we can hitch our bandwagon to. They don't have to be "superstars", they just have to have a future with this team. Since Yao's injury, the Rockets have resembled more of an holding company than an NBA team. We're not producing any goods or services, we're just holding other teams future players.
