LOL a new member trying to tell me I am not a fan? That's hilarious to the nth degree. Obviously I don't know when you might have actually become a fan, but I am pretty damn sure I was a fan long before you were.
LOL Just because I hadn't joined Clutchfans doesn't mean I wasn't a Rockets fan before you were sucking on a pacifier.
In addition to being dumb, it looks like you don't know how to read either. Please refer back to where I said "Obviously I don't know when you might have actually become a fan"
it looks like you don't know how to read what you wrote. please refer back to where you said, "...but I am pretty damn sure I was a fan long before you were."
I may not agree with some of your comments on Lin, but this I agree 100%. Admittedly I was a fan, but what he did during the 08-09 season seriously screwed the team over.
i more or less meant that you enjoy trying to stick it to fans of lin in the same way (but way less fashion) than you do about any topic involving tmac (though you bring him up in threads completely irrelevant of him too). the idea that you could hold it over their fans or whatever supporters is more appetizing to you than the rockets winning at this point. i'd love to have a search function to see what % of ur posts do not involve tmac, or belitting and name calling other posters because their posts support a particular player at that time. because i've supported tmac in a post or two before, ive been labeled a TOF by you when i really could care less about tmac. he's obviously not at kobes level. i just don't hate the dude like you do. look i get it. that's your gimmick. you joined a website in 1999 so you feel you are superior to others that joined later, especially recent joinees. it gives you a hard on to label these fans as lesser than you and as player only fans. and you'll pop into every thread about tmac or anything you can relate to him, and start something with guys. anyone that doesn't completely rip him apart is a sin. and then you proceed to LOL about how rockets choked a 2-0 lead going home in 05, LOL about injuries in 06, LOL about losing a game 7 at home, or losing in the 08 playoffs. like it's so ******* funny. you do realize the rockets as a team lost those series right? but it's in the past, so it's okay to take pride in those rocket losses, and somehow insinuate after the fact that it's OK to be so cheerful about those memories because it involved a player you hate. when i think of those rockets, i feel a bit bummed cuz i know the rockets lost those series. you feel happiness because it only fuels your agenda of hating tmac. that's what im getting at as a fake fan. otherwise we should all be laughing and lol'ing about rox not rotating at all to stockton initially in 97? should we be lol'ing about yao's inability to stay healthy in 06, 07 regular season, 08 playoffs, 09 playoffs? it's all in the past right, so it's ok to laugh and take happiness in stuff like that.
there is a feeling that all tmac fans are missing. the feeling when we lost those series? the feeling is called "reality". sure, all rockets fans were pissed, but after so many of these, "reality" hits you. but I guess tmac fans go into this phase called "denile". where they make up situations like "his teammates suck" or "if we had new coaches" or "if we got player X instead of player Y" no. reality is there. Tracy Mcgrady is not the right superstar to lead the Rockets or any other team to playoff success because of two things: 1. His health - look at his tenure with the Rockets, was he there all the time? also was he truthful to the team about it 2. His leadership - again, look at the games. not the games where we win, but when we lose. Does he have a "Don't quit" mentality? There you go. reality.. and lots of pull up 3s because he was lazy.
I'm a 1999'ner so by default I am the best fan going around. I am the biggest Rockets fan because I joined an online forum before everyone else did. Yay for me!
No they were polluting the forum when he joined other teams. Countless "he's back!" After he scores north of 15 points . And guess what? Next game Dnp . Or when Durant , lebron and rose advance in the playoffs they make this " Durant vs tmac" thread . You want to tell them to shut up beavis
1. Yao was also unhealthy but you say nothing about him 2. Yao wasn't a leader too? You couldn't be more hypocritical.
Yao actually won a playoff series and never lied to the organization take off your Orlando Magic Tmac glasses, you can't see past the first round
nobody who saw the hakeem era and saw the tmac would ever say this heresy you never saw hakeem or akeem you didn't exist or weren't old enough it's just a fact that Rockets fans who saw Dream, their hearts are true and they believe in the truth, and goodness, and what is real in the world
It's too bad you're not one of them. And we got past the first round because we actually had a supporting cast.
No, we finally won because Tmac left and the team gelled without any distractions. Rockets better without T-Mac? 05:51 AM ET 03.11 | While no one in the Rockets' locker room was willing to say the team is better without McGrady, they did admit that not having the uncertainty of his situation hanging over their heads was a good thing. When a team loses a guy due to injury who has been labeled a superstar by some it's supposed to negatively affect the team's performance. However, exactly the opposite has happened in Houston with Tracy McGrady gone for the remainder of the season after opting to undergo microfracture surgery. This has given McGrady's critics the opportunity to point to just how insignificant he really is to the team and how much substance his game lacks. But is it really that simple? Are the Rockets better solely because of McGrady's absence? "I think when he was here we played better," Ron Artest told HOOPSWORLD. "I don't think we're as good without him." When your friendly neighborhood columnist pointed out how much better the Rockets' record has been without McGrady, Artest replied: "That's deceiving, very deceiving. When he was here I thought we played better, and I'd rather have him here than sitting where he's at right now." Fortunately for the Rockets, they are a team very familiar with having to play through injuries. "We did it last year and that team was very resilient," said Houston head coach Rick Adelman. "We were able to just really play at a high level for a long-time. I think this year that helped." Yao Ming agreed with his coach's sentiment. "It happened last year, too," Yao told HOOPSWORLD. hoopsworld.com
