Come on Rockets, it's been years of 1st round exits in which we blow the 7th game, devastating injuries to main players and games like tonight where we have to rise up to the occassion for greatness and instead fall flat on our faces. All I ask is that you rise up off your butts, dust off and beat the living crap out of the blazers. We'll worry about LA in the 2nd round, but come on, let's do this, win a 1st round series! I can't go off into another postseason without a taste of playoff success! /thirsting for REAL success
i think thats the thing that bothers me the most. i told a friend of mine today that this game would be a measuring stick for the rockets. no rockets team in recent history wins this game, on the road, with so much pressure on them. i told my friend that if the rockets could step up under this pressure and win the game, i'd believe they could win in the playoffs. but they failed. again. when it mattered most, in the regular season anyway. they knew EXACTLY what dallas would do, both on offense (pick and roll with a shooter, either Jet or JJ), and defense (front with backside help). and they still failed. obviously knowing is not half the battle . . .
I just don't want to have that feeling again, that feeling like watching Yao/T-Mac both get hurt in the same season, the game 7 40 point blowout by the Mavs, watching the Jazz push, foul, flop and rebound their way in the last 3-4 minutes to a 2nd round series, watching t-mac put 40 up on a game 6 with a much better team but losing the series because we didn't have Yao/Rafer, watching most of the truly important regular season games be losses, watching t-mac this season, etc, etc. I'm just starting to dread pressure moments because we come out on the wrong end of them far too often. All I ask is break my emerging new dread. Win a series. Dominantly and confidently, not with a whimper. Destroy the Blazers in 5, tops 6 games. Preferably sweep them if possible. I can't take any more postseason failure and I need to know the Rockets can win with Yao when the pressure is on. Simple as that. It's been long enough.