You still have it the other way around. Mediocre teams don't deserve to sell out. Instead of saying the fans don't deserve to see a playoff team. Well that is going to happen, because people in New Orleans, Atlanta, Philly, and Indiana will be watching their playoff teams with lower attendance than the Rockets.
I wonder if Dragic is going to be our backup point next season...Rick doesn't trust him to run the team for more than 6-8 minutes a night even while Lowry's been nursing an injury...
To be honest, the attendance looks even worse on TV, not to mention the energy that it shows. Let's see what we find tomorrow at Nola. This Rockets team proved to be good, not mediocre, fanbase it is mediocre, at best.
We played like we were a team with big people that could afford to take a night off. We are under-sized mother****ers that play with hustle because we have to. <<<< We have to approach every game with that attitude.
This even goes back to last season. It's always the games they need against teams they should beat they lose. My gut feeling was that they would lose this game. It's sad, but it has become typical of this team. On tonight's game, they simply were not aggressive and there was NO urgency to win this game. The first quarter was ok. The second quarter began with some bad bad shots by Lowry. I know he's improved his shot this season but, some of those shots he took that quarter killed the team. Also Jordan Hill decided not to bring it. He didn't rebound nor defend. I guess I understand Adelman not playing Scola and Martin that often to save them for NO tomorrow, but Jordan stunk it up. In the second half, we chose not to get the ball out of marcus thorton's hands. Martin simply couldn't check him and we didn't bring help. I know the kings have quite a few bigs, but that wasn't the reason we lost. We just simply didn't come to play when we needed to which is irritating and unfathomable.
Martin played like " I was a King once, so I'll brick a couple to commemorate the moments. " He literally played with that mind set.
NO has to go 0-5 and MEM has to go 1-3 for us to have a chance by going 4-0. Problem is that NO and MEM play each other someone has to win, if NO wins they are in and if MEM wins they have to beat one more team to for us to not make it correct?
There are 30 teams in the NBA. 16 (more than half of the league) makes it into the post-season tourney to have a shot at winning it all. The Rockets are not even in the top half of the league. Despite the late surge, the bottom line is you are what your record says you are. The Rockets are mediocre. Good teams don't need the fans. ATL has horrible fans and still are comfy going into the playoffs. The Hornets fanbase is no better and the Rockets are still one of the better organizations around, it's just Houston fans are not down with mediocrity unless it is the Texans.
Yep, I really feel it was a lack of energy to start this game. When the Rockets made a late surge it's like they suddenly realized they needed to up their energy to win this game. The problem is you don't put crappy teams like the Kings away they start thinking they can win a game and now it is the favored team that has to match their energy just to win the game. They settled for jumpshots and bricked shot after shot. I think some blame has to fall on the coach to get his players playing with more drive and heart than what they did tonight.
If the rockets were in the east they would be in the playoffs. Technically, they are in the top half of the league. They're in the west, though, so it is tougher for them to make the playoffs.
It's easy to just say that though, what would happen if the Rockets had to play the Bulls, 6ers, Magic, Miami each one more or two more times? Seems like more losses to me. I don't think it is as simple as take a team from the west and put them east and they'd be in the playoffs.
Uh, our record says that the Rockets IS in the top half of the league, 13th in league record....seems like you forgot the majority of the Eastern Conference sucks and their eight seed has a 35-43 record.
Also, within each division every team plays the others 4 times in a season, that means we've gone up against the Spurs, the Mavs, Hornets and Grizzlies 4 times, and for the other non-division Western teams, we play them 3-4 times a season. We play the Eastern Conference 30 times (2 games per opponent), and I guess it may depend on which Eastern division you want to put the Rockets in, but I highly doubt it will somehow result in 6 more losses. Sure, we would play the Bulls, Magic, Hawks, Heat more, but we'd also play the Pacers, Nets, Raptors, Pistons, Cavs, Wizards more as well.
There needs to no boundary playoffs. The playoffs should be East Vs. West every step of the way. That would more accurately gauge who the true champions were.
While we do have to play the better teams of the East, we also get to play the worser teams of the East as well. Teams like Cleveland and Washington.
