How about all you quitters leave?

Hornets werent in position to take the 2 spot.

If that doesnt seem important, Im sorry, not sure what is.

 

Wow. That makes so much sense to me.

I guess I should hop on over to the T-wolves bandwagon. What have I been doing all this time when I could have been enjoying a Western Conference Finals Birth?

Not letting Kevin McHale run my organization into the ground?

 

If we can snag one away from them in the first 2 games away, i think we'll be able to beat them. Blazers Bigs don't really front but pryzbilla has given yao his troubles.

we may no longer have Dream, but remember guys, we did win the championship coming from 6th seed...

 

Nice thread, IROC it. Glad you started it so I wouldn't have to. Rep points are on their way.

I wish we could excommunicate the drama queens. It gives me a headache coming around here to join fellow fans and talk about the Rockets only to find a bunch of crybabies freaking out about how horrible our team is and how all hope is lost.

Tonight was a major disappointment. There are going to be some of those. But it's like the people who post here don't have any access to joy or pride whatsoever.

No team is perfect. No player, no coach, no ref is perfect. Mistakes will be made. Heartbreaks will happen.

But if you can't enjoy what the team has accomplished this year, if you can't get excited about playing the Blazers (HCA or not), I really don't know what you're doing on this board except making me wish I wasn't here.

Go Rockets. Go home whiners.

I believe.

 

the rockets can beat ANYONE, they also, unfortunately, can lose to ANYONE...so although we have taken the hard road throad la, we still have a chance, it is not over. nothing describes how angry i am for the overall team disapearance tonight, but its over, we're playing on the road, and maybe that is a good thing, since HCA hasn't really done much for us in years past, we're a good team, we're not great until we prove ourselves to be consistent

on the consistency note, let this be a test to RA, if it aint broke....DONT STOP GIVING THE BALL TO YAO....i realize they changed their approach in the second half defending him, but find ways to get him shots, he was ON FIRE, and he cooled off, i saw a few times we just flat out ignored him in the post, he is our golden ticket to the finals, ride him like till his back breaks, we can't win without him guys

 

this thread is funny. if you asked all the quitters/kneejerkers/overreactors/etc to leave, clutchfans would probably be left with 10 active members who'll be agreeing with each other all the time. lol.

 

I thought it was a given that every fan boards have kneejerking reactions like this after a loss?

But it would help if everyone kept their PMSing in the post game analysis thread so I don't have to skim through all the useless ranting.

 

well this team certaintly doesn't seem to mind providing the drama.. and i get the same headache from the unflagging pollyannas.. who base their reason for optimism on the sheer magnitude of their own cheer..

for one so readily decrying one so-called unreasonable extreme.. you sure show no qualms propagating it's attenuating opposite.. there's also little joy to be had being constantly exposed to a self-defeating trend that continues to prevail.. with this team.. year after year..

and pride.. really..? we're not the underdog Atlanta Hawks of yesteryear.. going up against disparaging and bullying goliaths.. where we're good for just mustering a fight.. we've accomplished nothing thus far.. we've merely teased the fringes of success.. while still demonstrating an old failing..

let us be reasonable.. realistic.. and objective on the matter of our team.. especially when there's still plenty provided for us to object..

let us not get self-righteous with our own little ra-ra-ra-no-matter-what-turn-a-blind-eye-for-the-team-can-do-no-wrong form of fandom and be so proud on our stand.. when the ground you stand on is much more wet and muddy..

i'll just never understand this take on fandom when it came to sport teams.. seems counterproductive and counterintuitive..

 

one last thing.. Go Rockets..

 

I'm not a rah-rah-rah guy, Hmmm. You would know that about me if I hadn't stopped posting here ages ago due to the manic/bi-polar freaks that dominate this forum.

What I am is a fan of a 53-29 team that lost its star player early in the year and struggled to find its identity until around the All-Star break. I'm not calling the glass half full or half empty; I'm just saying there's water in it and it's not full of poison.

I'm not a Pollyanna; I'm just not a drama queen.

We're in a remarkably good position all things considered.

We have a hell of a great bench.

We have a healthy Yao.

And we're in 5th place against an opponent we match up well with.

Should we be in 2nd? Of course. We lost a heartbreaker and the consequences are severe. Tonight flat out sucked. And I was yelling at Adelman through the whole game: he is horrible at adjusting to match up problems and after he saw how much better Hayes/Landry were on Dirk it made no sense at all to go back to Scola and leave him there for so long while we got burned. Ron makes terrible decisions when pressured. Yao STILL can't beat the front. Lowry is obviously the better facilitator and should be starting.

See how I did all that without virtually screaming and crying and tearing my eyeballs out over the internet?

I'm just sick of hearing how it's all over before it's even begun. We'd have been in a much better position if we'd won tonight. But we've won a lot. Tonight we lost a tough one but we're still in an exciting position.

These boards used to be better than chatting at espn.com. You seem to be arguing that all sports fans are raving lunatics and that's totally cool. I just disagree.

 

great post. no wonder you're encouraged to post more. we need to improve the quality of this board a bit.

 

Debbie Downer, man.

When it all comes down to it, it.is.a.game.

All boards have their fair share. I'm sure most Lakers fans hated on their team after the C's beat them. It is what it is.

Extreme? Maybe, but when people are whining like chicken little then they deserve to be called out and this is the heart of this thread. There's a little pollyanna in everyone when their team delivers a championship, it's about being a fan when it's the worst time to be a fan and that's what the heart of the matter truly is. It's about why you love the game in the first place, because you feel like a kid again.

You want extreme, go to a soccer match in Italy or a basketball game overseas. That's fandom I don't get.

 

The rockets will definitely NOT lose again in the first round.


believe.

 

and i'm certaintly no drama queen.. my reply was just incase you were grouping all none "believe!" related posts as aimless ranting and "whining"..

and frankly.. perhaps you're more easily impressed than I am with what they managed post-Tracy.. truly if you hadn't stopped posting ages ago.. you'd have seen that I was one of the determined small group of people that actually saw how much better this team performed and played as a team without Tracy.. this season.. one of the most consistent proponent of sit-him-out-until-he's-100%-he's-a-detriment-to-the-team-as-he-is.. i felt utmost confidence that they'd rapidly find their identity.. once he was permanently removed..

and well.. as you yourself have noticed the results.. my expectations were met exactly.. while yours were exceeded..

i just don't share your optimism of them being in great position.. praising the quality of our bench.. and healthy Yao.. for it's not the quality of our individual players and composition of our team that's a problem.. that's in question.. it's their seemingly inherent inclination to mentally collapse in high stake games.. and that can spell their end.. no matter how great of position they find themselves in..
honestly.. for homecourt to come down to a face of against the Mavs.. couldn't ask for a better position to be in control of their own destiny.. short of it going down to a match against the Kings.. it just doesn't matter if they continue to defeat themselves..

certaintly hope you aren't accusing me of having done just that....

but see now you present a more balanced approach.. quite different from the tone of the post i had initially quoted..

i have said no such thing.. all i've expressed.. is a concern of their still prevalent flaw.. of being the cause of their own demise.. a flaw one would've figured to have been corrected after all this time.. and all those lessons..

they've been sought to.. they've been tended to.. they've been given the parts needed to succeed.. rosters tweaked for the better year after year.. finally they have the most complete balanced team in years.. and they continue to take themselves out of such contests..? it's simply intolerable..

not at all what i've argued.. just that there are two extremes here.. and pointing figures back and forth get's us nowhere.. as neither is better or more well founded than the other..

all i desire.. is an objective balance..

 

Hell ya
we are going to blow the blazers out!
get mad!!!

 

Yesterday was a very big game for Rockets.
Did they win it? No.
Are all playoff games big games? Yes.
Can Rockets win decisive games? ___ (enter here yes or no)

Until they prove us wrong, I suggest you optimists and surrealists leave.
I don't like kneejerk threads and whining in general, but when it matters, this team hasn't done anything for years.
It's good to pump up yourself - but stick your head in the sand if you don't want to see your perfect Rockets image ruined!

 

The board is only for people who have hearts of a champion!

No quitters. No losers.

If you don't have the H, you are a bad fan! Never give up on a team that doesn't have a Sacramento record. Even then, don't give up!

 

Please, don't include me in your "us".

With optimism we might not win;
but without it we will most definitely lose.

Asking fans with hearts and faith to leave is kinda rude. Even if you chose not to see the glass half full, at least have some confidence.