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Face it, folks, the Clippers are just better at NBA than the Rockets are

Discussion in 'Houston Rockets: Game Action & Roster Moves' started by Carl Herrera, May 6, 2015.

  1. IBTL

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    fair.. but that's a strange sad place to openly root against your team and be happy when they lose.

    that's sadder than ass cancer
     
  2. ipaman

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    They are which means you have to be creative and save your season. Terry needs to be benched and move Brewer into the starting lineup. Also Dwight or Capela must be on the floor at all times for rim protection. I don't care how green Capela is, he's got 6 fouls to use anyway.

    We should be down 3-0 and anybody who says different is ignoring reality. Desperate times calll for desperate measures. Got to try and save the dying season.
     
  3. WinkFan

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    The Rockets just don't have the offensive talent to compete. There is only one difference maker offensively on this team. As long as that's true, we will continue to get exposed against the elite.
     
  4. bobloblaw

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    He can't prevent them from posting negatively. I agree with IBTL that a lot of supposedly die-hard Rockets fans such as Carl Herrera never have anything positive to say about the team. Critical opinions of the team lose any weight if you have always expected the team to suck. It's not just about reporting how badly we suck when we're losing, there is a ton of criticism in positive threads when we're playing well. There is little doubt that some "fans" want the Rockets to fail to prove themselves right.
     
  5. daywalker02

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    I know. I feel ambiguous all the time. I wish we could have been the team blowing out the Clippers tonight.

    I acknowledge Clippers' play tonite. They did well, better than us and I give them credit.

    On to the next game.
     
  6. Carl Herrera

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    Jesus Christ, I said in the very first post of the thread that the Rockets are "pretty good," just not as good as the Clippers. Some of you people take that as "trolling" and "never have anything good to say" about the Rockets.

    Having an opinion about the team that reflects the objective data we have about them is someho "non-stop negativity" to you people. It's not my fault some of you people cannot handle the facts about the Rockets and take anything other than unrealistic "Rah Rah Rockets will win title!" as trolling.

    The facts are the facts. The Rockets lost game 1 by a big margin without Chris Paul. They had to come back in the 3rd/4th quarter to win a closely contested game 2 at home-- again without Chris Paul. They got blew out in game 3 with a less than 100% Chris Paul. They have had a history of struggling against the Clips and Chris Paul. One game might be luck, but at some point you just can't deny the data.
     
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  7. IBTL

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    well said.

    HATERS- why do you hate the rockets so much when they lose? You love to be right? I would say the odds are in haters favor since there can only be one champion. being a loser and wanting to be right so bad to want losing- is the definition of loser.

    'that hot girl wouldnt want me'
    'I dont deserve that job'
    'It will probably rain anyway I will stay home and troll rockets board and project my loserdom to the world'
    'I hate myself... no I hate the rockets... no I hate myself'

    why do you get joy from the rockets losing? have you considered getting help?

    it's okay it might get better for you but as you would say 'it's not looking too good'

    please rejoice when rockets win, when you lose the girl , when you dont get that promotion. It's what you do.

    I would have LOVED to be here when we won it all. I remember all the same losers. and when we won they still couldnt crack a smile. It's not me.. it's you.

    search your soul ... you know it to be true
     
  8. Carl Herrera

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    Nobody is rooting against the Rockets. Those of us who are objectively minded simply see the data and understand that the Rockets have a significantly less than 50% chance to win.

    I wasn't rooting for Floyd Mayweather, either, but I understood that odds were in his favor in that match last weekend.
     
  9. IBTL

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    You posted it when we were down in game 2 after losing game 1. The timing was the definition of troll. You wanted to get that headline in and fellate your hate that you couldnt wait (yes it rhymes too make a headline of it you troll) until end of the game. Sorry they won. and I feel bad for you that you genuinely aren't making any money off of your troll attention w**** threads.

    You are a do boy pawn and hopefully for clutchs sake the troll threads and titles you work so hard on help his server costs. cause I know it's really important to you, and I bet you have a spreadsheet counting how many posts you can get from a troll title. I have seen you be petty and butthurt about your lame title not getting the run you hoped for. It's really uncanny how much you care about this yet hate the rockets and love it when they lose. rejoice they are down. You are a strange little man and I feel bad for you past this bbs honestly. tough place to be man. I mean what would you want on your gravestone?

    'really liked the rockets but loved when they lost'
    'loved losing'
    'great writer of troll headlines'
    'here lies a dedicated loser that loves losing.probably loves being buried'

    nice legacy.

    even your moniker is troll. what 'purvis short' moniker wasn't available? what about 'david wood'

    please. :rolleyes:

    yeah no matter how much you troll and want to be right it's still only 2-1. Did you cry when rockets won the other night? I wonder how many times you kicked your dog that night? has to be unbearable for your family. brutal.


    comedy.

    apparently 2 games is enough objective data to then pat yourself on back huh? wow.

    If rockets lose series please celebrate and smile. I know that's hard for you but being right and posting troll headlines feels even better right?

    what a strange place to be man. wow.

    no one is saying they are going to win the title the same way no one was saying we would come back from 3-1. But some of us have been around long enough to know that it is not over.

    for as obsessed as you are about this board you have fulfilled your own destiny of loser and it's been a case study in attention starvation. and to the whole community no less that matters so much to you. good job.

    OBVIOUS

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  10. IBTL

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    yes you are. the 'data' aka your entire existence here shows that. and trust me that's one hell of a sample size considering you post more than DD would if he was on meth.

    the overwhelming data we are seeing is from you openly rooting against the rockets and posting troll threads after 1 and a half game.

    Now you are here again to gloat on the rockets loss.

    simply see the data? that rockets lost 2 games and that is enough for you to declare victory. nice.

    Stop trying to twist things around and be all wordy to try to prove some lame point. 2 games of data has 0 to do with the nba stats that 77% of the teams that are down 2-1 lose. Sure the chances of winning when down 2-1 are not as good as when being up 2-1. Nice work there einstein.

    please stop posting and take a time out and re evaluate yourself. It goes much past this bbs.
     
  11. daywalker02

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    There is one thing Carl is doing right. That is he is trying not to take himself seriously most of the time.

    You might not agree with his humor but that is a gift.

    He isn't as good with more serious content for sure.
     
  12. a711

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    I'm one of the biggest Carl haters here but this is one thread where he wasn't actually trying to troll. He even said we are pretty good. We are ultimately going to need to add some offensive talent in order to get better as a team.

    We all knew this at the trade deadline. We need another perimeter attacker
     
  13. a711

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    It's also why I wanted to play the spurs. We can keep it close with them. The clippers are crazy athletic and always play well against us. I said they had potential to blow us out
     
  14. tinman

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    Herrera is not rooting against the Rockets

    everyone who is Hakeem Status means they love the Rockets and Clutch City
     
  15. Kwame

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    I don't root against the Rockets either, but I try to maintain objectivity. For ex., I picked the Clips in 6. But many on this board perceive objective analysis as being anti-Rockets or being sad and pathetic and miserable. It doesn't bother me to be characterized that way because I know it's not true, but I do appreciate those who provide impartial takes, even if I may disagree with them.

    Some of us are just realists who understood that despite all the hype, the Rockets were not legitimate contenders. That's why I've gone on record before the post-season started as saying I would be satisfied with winning a single playoff series. Once I saw the bracket, I was convinced that that was all that was going to happen. It's looking more and more likely.
     
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    Rockets are still better, but for all the hard work they've done in the regular season to change into a defense first team, they've gone back to 2014 and let missed shots affect their game.
     
  17. cfansnet

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    We still have the best player in Dwight. The entire offense should go through him.
     
  18. Hakeemtheking

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    This.

    Make a move now to change the dynamics of the series.

    At this point we got nothing to lose because the status quo will have us eliminated soon enough.

    Shake it up.
     
  19. xtruroyaltyx

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    Yep agreed. Rockets aren't winning this series. They were fortunate to get game two with Paul out.
     
  20. xtruroyaltyx

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    Best chance the rockets had was the Spurs and then Memphis.

    Rockets cannot compete with teams like the clippers and golden state. Too much fire power and athleticism.
     

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