At the beginning, I saw this lockout shortened season as giving the Rockets a GIMMICKY CHANCE at advancing in a discombulated season. Kinda like how the '99 Knicks went to the Finals. So I'm not that mad at the effort to try. Though its still disappointing in a lot of ways HOW the season went down.
And the winner will not get an asterisk next to their title, if anything, winning this year is even more difficult and impressive.