You know, I kept glancing over at the bench during the game. Did Rick even stand up? His coaching was just non-existent. And he needs to stop this crap offense he's cooked up and just go with his normal, Princeton-based offense. I don't care if a lazy T-Mac and amorphous blob Yao can't run it. Do it anyway. It's gotta be better than what they're doing.
When did Steve get booed? Are you sure it wasn't after Steve got a no-call or something? Man.. the crowd is booing the wrong person. Booing Steve isn't gonna change much.. they should boo the source.
Oh yes, I remember that play. Is the NBA doing a new movement where the refs are swallowing their whistle or something? I don't watch many NBA games besides the Rockets, so I don't know. From what I see, it seems like the refs are calling half the fouls they called from previous seasons.
I think the bad lazy players like t mac have something to do with the emotion in the building...when t mac slammed the ball before the end of the half in the pistons game the crowd was very loud...The coach is lazy,t mac is lazy,rafer can't shoot,Bonzi can't make freethrows,yao is moving in slow motion,steve and mj are playing like n.b.d.l rookies...Thats the problem.
Actually the bystander effect is when a group of people don't provide assistance because they think someone else in the group is going to provide it. Not as a result of conforming. What you're describing more closely resembles groupthink. I minored in Psych and almost double majored in it, so I couldn't resist being critical
Yep. You notice Luis didn't do much of anything last night but when he got on the floor and fought like a wild animal for a loose ball, the crowd definitely showed their appreciation. Effort, it's really all we can ask for.
the crowd was pathetic in the lower bowl yet again last night.... you can just see almost entire rows EMPTY and it's pathetic. i mean, i could understand if we were playing the grizz or bobcats or sixers, but for the freakin mavs?!?!? inexcusable. i was expecting a playoff type atmosphere and it was anything but.... you could hear the mavs fans loud and clear throughout the entire game.
I'm going to have to go with the prevailing thought of "Give us something to cheer about and we'll cheer". I definitely heard the crowd when Steve got tackled and got no call, I definitely heard the crowd show love when Scola fought like madman for that ball. btw, i was told by someone who sat in the upperbowl that they definitely booed that no call on Steve so someone must have been busy with their fave 5 on their phone to think they were booing at Steve. PLAYOFF ATMOSPHERE?!?...Don't talk about playoff atmosphere...You kidding me?!?...I just hope we can have something to cheer about...
My view of Stevie during that play was obstructed by the basket. That's the problem with the end seats.
As others have mentioned, Francis never got booed, the no-call against him got booed. The only rockets player that was booed for about 15 seconds which was far less than he deserved was luther head when he jacked up his third consecutive airball with 17 seconds left on the shot clock in the fourth. As far as the crowd only being good during the playoffs, thats a load of crap. You obviously don't go to very many games, earlier in the season when we were winning, the crowd was fine. Of course we will get outcheered by dallas when we had a grand total of two plays the entire game to cheer about.
Give me something to cheer about. It's not just the lower seats. I was in section 428, and in the second half, with the exception of a few good plays from Yao, there was nothing to cheer about and my section was silent. There were a few Mavs fans, and other than complaining about every call, they were quiet, too. They knew that the Mavs weren't earning the win. They knew that the Rockets were giving it away.
I wanted to add... At the Pistons game, through the whole 4th quarter, the arena was raucous and loud. I was sitting below the Rowdies, but it was all over the place. People were standing, chanting, cheering, booing. It was fun. It was also driven by the performance on the court.
you are spot on about that. i was exhilarated, jumped out my seat and the whole place seemed to be with me. the atmosphere for that game was great, the crowd was more vocal than i have seen in recent trips to tc. it is a reflection of the play from the team we all came to love, cheer and support. the 'corporates' were still absent, and the club section was peppered with empties and even the seats with bodies in them didn't seem to mind as much. it's embarassing, because the club seats are the most visible from tv. can't stand watching a game on tv at home that i really really wanted to go to, and then seeing fantastic seats sit vacant. the atmosphere is dictated by the play, and the players. i completely disagree with your character assasination of all the those mentioned above. adelman and tmac are lazy???? yeah, you have no idea what you are talking about. tmac is perhaps somewhat soft, and apparently a quitter but how could he be lazy considering the world of professional sports sort of screens out the lazy, and were talking about a premier specimen here, not your average player. if if your saying he is lazy because he doesn't drive to the hole, settles for the jumper then you do not understand basketball whatsoever. tracy taking more jumpers than driving probably has alot more to do with him aging, and also his confidence in the midrange game. when a player is so explosive near the rim that you have to play back on him guarding mostly against being beat, thus the jumpshooter has room to shoot and in our case, that player has a tremendous midrange stroke. there ARE times when a pull up midrange j is the right offensive move. this is all pretty simple basketball, it's absurd that you would think they are lazy?
T.C. fans do suck even when the team is good so I'll give you that, but honestly I can't blame them for not getting excited about last night......that was a piss poor effort displayed by the rockets (outside of yao and maybe a couple of others)
Yea I understand you should support your team and all but at the same time the rockets right now arent even worth watching. The fact of the matter is that the crowd will not be full until the playoffs come around. And even then if you keep losing in the playoffs do you think fans will want to come back and spend money i dont think so.
