Tonight is not just a basketball game

Gimmmethemike · May 13, 2009

Way to go for this thread... Jinx thread I suppose

Rocket_chn · May 13, 2009

Sweet Lou 4 2 said:

Nor is it a big playoff game to decide the championship. To a lot of people, outside of Houston and outside of Rockets fans, it's much more.

I live in NYC, and I've heard people make references to the Houston Rockets the last few days. People who aren't even basketball fans. People who have nothing to do with the city of Houston except they made a business trip their once and it was too hot and humid.

So I realized something. This isn't about basketball or sports so much as values. It's about a philosophical question. It's more than an underdog facing a Goliath...

It's everything we as Americans idealize in the spirit of competition. That camaraderie, teamwork, self-sacrifice, hard-work, and perseverance can move a mountain. It's the bad news bears, Hoosiers, and Rocky I, II, & III all rolled into one.

Except people aren't sure if that's real or just a movie. We want to believe it, but life teaches us that it's always those with some advantage - connections, money, charisma, looks - who gets the spoils. The story of the hard working small guy is the exception, not the rule isn't it?

What else explains our fascination with a Cinderella team in the NCAA's? Except, you only have to get lucky and beat a good team once. How how often does such a team go the distance? The 86' Wildcats?

These Houston Rockets have no business beating the 65 win Lakers. It's so unfathomable, that Sundays game was credited more to the Lakers messing up than the Rockets overcoming.

But secretly, people...not just Houston Rockets fans...are hoping it's something more. Can a group of guys....without their two superstars, without their back-up center....with a bunch of undersized players throughout their line-up and a mercurial cast-off who once represented everything wrong with sports and is only marquee name on the team!....

These cast offs and late round picks....who were expected to roll over and die, shocked the world not just by winning, but by DOMINATING the best basketball team on the planet...the team who just 9 days ago was the shoe-in for the championship...can these cast-offs do it again?

Because if they do....it's no longer about the Lakers. It becomes something real....something so much bigger than the Houston Rockets beating the L.A. Lakers. It becomes more than another notch in Rockets lore. This is bigger than any championship ring. Any comeback. These guys are on one step closer to showing us something we want to believe in, but are too cynical to actually accept.

A win today will inspire and awe people. It will teach kids a lesson. It will teach adults a lesson.
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GO ROX!

we still believe !

where amazing HAPPEN

cst_chenchen · May 13, 2009

We have a great season this year. win or lose, I still like them and support them.

Marcus Bryant · May 13, 2009

The series is just like a football game, we are down 2-3 but we still have got two oppotunities to turn it around.

Sweet Lou 4 2 · May 13, 2009

Marcus Bryant said:

The series is just like a football game, we are down 2-3 but we still have got two oppotunities to turn it around.
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well technically only one. we only get the 2nd opportunity if we win on thursday.

Frankly, the Lakers are a 65 win team and a very good team. Beating them with Yao and T-mac at 100% would be tough....for us to be playing in a game 6 is just amazing.

If the Lakers play on thursday like they did last night, it would take a miraculous effort to win. We'd have to duplicate Sunday's performance.

It's possible for sure. I really believe what I wrote, as cheesy as it sounds. If we bring it tomorrow, we can make amazing things happen.

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