It is true though that they have always given us fits in the playoffs, but thats mostly due to the fact that Yao and Scola can't cover the PnR for ****.
I hate the Jazz as much as the next guy but we are not rivals... They have our Numbers... 3-1 02-03 2-2 03-04 2-2 04-05 2-1 05-06 3-1 06-07 2-1 07-08 2-2 08-09 2-2 09-08 18 Wins vs 12 Losses against our Beloved Rockets.. And that doesn't include the playoffs in which they really have our numbers... Sorry guys but unless we start kicking there A#@ around for the next 2-3 years we are not considered rivals by any means..
Sad to tell you guys, but just because we hate the Jazz doesn't make us rivals. To the Jazz (and fans) the last two Rockets-Jazz playoffs series were just another walk through flop park. Also, to them, the Stockton play is a figment of our imaginations... therefore they see no reason to have a rivalry. Personally I'd like to have a rivalry with a more worthy team like the Mavericks/Spurs/Lakers anyways.
He's right!!!! The Rockets will make the playoffs and the Jazz.....well someones gotta go, might as well be them
I don't know what it is but the Jazz always have big-men that annoy the hell out of me: Karl Malone (He drives a semi around because he thinks it's cool), Greg Ostertag (His buzz cut), Carlos Boozer (Just cuz and probably because he's a bad matchup for Yao), and now Al Jefferson (His douchebaggery). But they're not the best villains for us since they're not all that as a team. The Lakers are better villains since they have annoying players (Kobe, Fisher, Vujacic, Rick Fox, Shaq) and they're really good. Artest is alright though.
Of course they aren't going to view us as rivals. They beat us both times in recent years in a playoff series. It's like asking why UT doesn't view A&M as a rival. You don't view teams you consistently beat as rivals....
They may have won the yearly battles the past few seasons, but we've won the war twice against them. The year they beat us in the playoffs and made it to the finals they became Michael Jordan victims (so did the rest of the league, not really something to be too ashamed about). But the point is they have NEVER won the war against us. It's a rivalry and they are the big picture victims. Like the show, Hakeem and the Rockets have made sweet Big Love twice to utah and it's fans.
Well, watching Jordan take them out in the finals really didn't make me feel any better in 97 and 98, in fact it pissed me off even worse because I felt the Rox could have/would have beaten Jordan's Bulls but never got the shot.
This person attends (attended) the University of Utah...home to the dumbest d-bags on the planet. Lacks any credibility whatsoever.
Lol, nobody's their rival cause they always end up losing. To be a rival, you have to win a few games against them at least.
Yeah, I can understand that. We were a matchup nightmare for the bulls. Much like how the sonics were "Rocket killers" back then, Hakeem and Co. were "Bulls Killers". If anyone had a chance to dethrone those guys in the finals it was us. MJ and the bulls were so good (I really didn't hate the bulls as much as I hated the jazz. Outside of the Rockets and Hakeem, if I had to choose, MJ was my favorite non rocket player), it really would have been interesting to watch the two best teams of that era go head to head in a final. Oh well, what is done is done. They had their success and we had ours. (Both at the expense of utah)
Neither of us are wrong. Ancient texts like the American Heritage still dictate that "whom" can be used anytime a direct object needs to be referenced but will almost always sound awkward, as in the previously referenced sentence or yours. Based on modern usage, the only appropriate situation that remains where "whom" should be used is as an object of a preposition (and even then, only when the preposition is in juxtaposition to the "whom"; if it's put at the end of the sentence "who" is preferred). Replacement of indirect objects still has defensible usage within the realm of modern (albeit extremely pretentious) conversation, but generally you don't even want to do that anymore. It's just a matter of antiquity. Language is meant to be fluid. Even educated people these days shy away from "whom" because it's known generically to be a kind of out for wannabe savants. Why go through all the trouble? Sorry for making this thread into grammar court. I already regret it, but I had to defend myself. This will be the last I thing I say on the matter and then no more. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Who_(pronoun)
