I would rather remain the underdog, and be underestimated in each series. ESPN can dis our team all they want. The results are what matter.
Like "Rockets fans wan't to think that they took the series, but in reality, it was more of the Clippers collapsing then the Rockets winning." FUUUUUUUG that shiii. It's so ridiculously infuriating.
We really didn't have a healthy Dwight in most (all?) of those Warriors games. Definitely not the Smith-Dwight x-factor either. We will miss Beverley.
And Dwight was in the last two matchups with the Warriors. The only thing that hasn't happened in any of the four matchups though was BOTH Howard and Jones playing.
I can only imagine the amount of ESPN circle jerking would be going on right now if GS did the same thing. I can only imagine what it would bel ilike if Josh Smith would have done that for the Warriors. they wouldn't stop talking about "how he found a new home in Golden State and is playing like a star". Meanwhile our whole team struggles to get air-time. So ridiculous
Doesn't surprise me at all - both Bruce Bowen (who despises the Rockets) and Jalen Rose picked the Mavs to beat us in the 1st round. Then Jalen picked the Clippers to beat us (although to his credit after we won Game 6, he did pick us to win Game 7). But yea I wouldn't expect anything different. Maybe the Clippers did choke away Game 6 but considering the Rockets never trailed today, I don't see how the Clippers "choked" Game 7. The Rockets were the better team and showed more heart yet in listening to Fox Radio on the way home, all I heard was how the Clippers blew the series, blah blah blah.
Not too much to add - the Houston national media bias is all true and kudos to the analyst who eventually points this out. Literally one of the only ones I have heard who has been somewhat fair is Zach Lowe and he doesn't gush about Houston but just says, they are a really good defensive team and that they are hard to watch because of all the free throw shooting(a fair point). Outside of him, the Rockets commentary has been sparse in ESPN and even sparser to complement Houston in any way. ....you know the point no one seems to mention when discussing Golden State is they had an amazing record with a mostly healthy team against one of the most injury plagued fields in recent memory. No one talks about that and I'm okay with that BUT I get this feeling if Houston does by some chance knock off golden state(I'm skeptical), then that will be the narrative for Houston's run - the asterisk if you will similar to the stupid "Houston only won a title because Jordan was out two years." Which was idiotic because Jordan played in one of those title years and didn't make it out of the East.
quick- someone write a story raining on Houston's parade. http://espn.go.com/chalk/story/_/id...rs-installed-favorites-claim-nba-championship Big props to the ONE Clutchfan who put $1k on Houston.
Would be tough to make that narrative considering we played without Dwight most of the season and are without our starting PG and PF right now. But if ESPN still did it, wouldn't surprise me.
Another one I heard was on Around the Horn. The younger hispanic guy I believed finally said "We didn't give them credit before this game 6 and we are not going to give them credit after winning game 6, then when are we going to give them credit." All the other guys were taking their time to talk about the clippers.
Regular season stats mean jack.. The team these Warriors will meet is not the same. At all. And it would be a huge mistake if they look past Houston. Kerr will have their boys ready to go, but expect Houston do dominate them in the paint. The blue print to beat them is there.
