Easily the most frustrating season of my admittedly young fandom (SF3 days). I think the confusing direction is the biggest problem. Hell, even when we went 34-48 in 2005-2006, we knew what we were trying to do. Right now it sometimes feels like a youth movement and other times like we are trying to make contender moves. Incredibly frustrating...
I've always been a big Rockets fan, but this season has been hard. Waiting, losing, waiting and losing. I always believe this team has a chance to make some noise, but I just keep waiting. A trade, a splash, a winning streak or just anything positive to hang my hat on, but I just keeping waiting. Injuries, god good when can something start going the Rockets way!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I think we need more threads like these, we need more completely un-obvious answers from questions, such as "Were you upset when Brooks quit on the Rockets?" "Do you get frustrated when we can't get a rebound?" "Do you want a superstar on this team?" "Does good defence win games?" "Is winning important to a winning team?"
Honestly, it's hard to watch because of how the team is built. The make up of this team does not make sense on the court, but it does off of it. I see this team more as a bunch of trade assets than Rockets. Sadly, the trade deadline is the most exciting part of this season. Even if Morey doesn't get his star, the Rockets will be ridiculed even more with trade rumors and free agency targets.
nope... its been hell ever since the offseason. Order of events 1) brad miller signing - he is who we thought he was... slow, aging, and overpaid. 2) lose yao - big surprise here huh... 3) 0-5 start - ....... 4) ab injury - not a big deal... but now hes back... playing like crap AND bad attitude. 5) 16-16 - FK YEAH! 6) another 5 game losing streak - scola's defense being exposed 7) playing hard trying to get the 8th seed - FK YEAH! 8) Minnesota (13-39) 112 - Houston (25-29) 108 sigh
No, of course not. The Rockets are going to miss the playoffs, but not have anything other than a crappy draft pick to show for it.
Basketball is always better than no basketball, but when your team is losing with like this it's only like .0000001% better.
Exactly how I feel. When we were losing with Steve Francis in his early years, at least we had hope. With this team, I really don't know what we're trying to do. I don't understand this "win now" attitude by trying to trade for Melo who will bolt anyway. And we're not going to get a good lottery pick since we're just stuck in mediocrity, occasionally winning and then losing again...
Not even a little bit. I've watched the rockets since 1992 when i was 6, and never have i been so disinterested in them. I've always enjoyed rockets games, even the dreary Francis years. I work 2nd shift and get off at 1 am so i have to DVR most games, i used to ignore everything and rush home to watch it like it was live, this year i check the score on my phone and often don't even watch the recording. I think it's the combination of high hopes in the preseason, and knowing this is just a purgatory squad that is going to be almost completely rebuilt before the rockets can move forward again. This team isn't building towards anything, and they're not currently competing for anything either. Were nowhere, which is the worst place you can be. Once the seemingly inevitable trades come i might regain interest, like i did with the Astros this year. I'll always follow the rockets, and care, but this season seems really tough.
I LOVE the Rockets, but every single game is close heartbreaker. It is absolutely tearing me apart. Then as soon as you lose hope for playoffs and hope for tank, they run off wins. Then playoff hopes are back and they go on a losing streak. It is seriously the worst season ever, you are better off being like the Cavs and just losing, at least you know which direction your team is going, this team is just frustrating.
I'm telling you that is simply because of the heartbreaking, inability to close games. If the Rockets are losing by 20 pts, or winning by 20 pts every so often you don't feel all that stress, but when they consistently lose close games and break your heart game after game, it becomes ridiculously tough to watch.
The answer so far is no. The gains that we have made have been fairly limited. The absence of Yao is a very big factor. We don't have a franchise player.
