I was so mad, I went out and had some great gnocchi with a sauce made from four cheeses, then chased that with a chocolate gelato. But hey, I'm in Italy. Actually, I was up at 4:00 am "listening" to the game by following the Gamecast at ESPN.com on a dialup connection. My color commentary came from the game thread here at ClutchFans! I was stunned at the magnitude of the collapse. Man, I sure hope they got it out of their system. But this Rockets team has been streaky -- win a bunch, then lose a few in a row. That scares me.
if we lose at home saturday, we lose the series. book it. we've GOT to put the proverbial "foot" down the mavericks throat. if they win 2 in a row at our place, they won't make the same 2 mistakes they did in Dallas again.
i was upset but i delt with it because we are still up 2-1. they only won by 4 and yao was in foul trouble, tmac wasn't super, and they got twice the ft's. if game 4 is called evenly then we will win. if yao stays on the floor then we will win. dallas isn't determining who wins or loses these games, we are.
uhm no many were in the third quarter when the rockets made their run in the third mavs shot at one point 11/12 fts while rockets had 0. the fts were what kept the mavs in the game and esp in the the third. thats where the huge discrepancy came, not in the fourth. there were plenty of shady calls in the third.
I seriously thought I was the only one who couldn't sleep. I keep thinkings it's a bad dream that we ended up choking like that. granted we are still sitting pretty, but I feel edgy now vs. comfortable. However, that's what the playoffs are all about - and the way I look at it, we didn't play that well except for hitting our threes and yet, it was still only a 4 point loss. We're back with avengence on Saturday and the Rockets got the wake up call that they needed. Should the MAVS tie this series up, no worries, we are a great ROAD team. But let's take care of business on Saturday!
I was so upset that I got pissed when my fiance was asking me a question about tuxes for our wedding. This was immediately after the game and she's like "don't get mad at me, i didn't do anything wrong"...about 10 minutes later when I calmed down a bit I told her not to bother me for about 10 minutes whenever we lose!
I had an exam the next day which I obviously couldn't study for due to my anger at the And 1 bucket that was ruled a non-shooting foul and which would have put us up by 9 were it called correctly (too much to ask for fair officiating, i know). For me, that changed the course of the whole game and that was when we really lost. I was moping around the whole day and am still depressed. I haven't felt this bad since Christian Laetner hit that game winning shot some years back to beat Kentucky. I expect to be ecstatic on Saturday when the now humbled Rockets give the Mavs a convincing beatdown.
I slept well last night. It was a fairly exciting game but the Mavs just played better down the stretch. I understand about getting into the game and all bro but I have found it to be unfavorable when I let me identity be so closely tied to the outcome of a sporting event.
I actually coul NOT sleep at all after Game 2 when we won. I was so pumped up and filled with nervous energy and tension from the great game that I didn't sleep til like 4AM and had to be up at 7AM. Oh well, that's what the playoffs are all about. The loss was dissapointing but I kept telling my friends as we were going to the game that I feel they will lose b/c they seem to be on too much of an emotional high that they are naturally due for a letdown. I think the loss may be a good thing because Dallas played its best and the Rox for the most part played like crap and only lost by 4. The loss is good b/c it will refocus them and get them to see that they aren't a GREAT team YET as the media has hyped them after the 2 BIG wins in Dallas (Comparisons to Magic and Kareem?).
I was so mad and so dissapointed on TMAC. If it was Jordan, he wouldn't have let the big win slip away.... man, it's too early to compare TMAC with Jordan.... very dissapointed... We only need a little bit control of the game ! TMAC should step out, but he didn't....
Aside from the nervous eating during the game (ate a whole bag of kettle chips) I threw my deodarant at the wall.
First I kicked my beanbag chair across the room. Then I went on a drive and watched the sun set. Came back home, ate half a carton of ice cream and had a couple beers. I felt much better afterwards.
I remember getting really worked up over the Game 6-1997 series loss Utah; that was really hard to take. Since then, I've tried to get myself in the same mindset that the Rockets need to take - let it go, get prepared for Game 4.
