Chuck Norris said when he heard of the news, he bited the hand that feed him and ate their entrails, and then he unscrambleed an egg, and then he used red hot lava to moisturize his skin, and then he beat the Sun in a staring contest, and then he put the FUN in Funeral, and then he kicked start a car, and then he held air hostage by refusing to breathe, and then he kicked you but your relatives were the ones who felt it based on the Chuck Norris's Theory of Relativity, and then he let Bigfoot take a picture of him, and then he played Russian roulette with a fully load gun and won, and then he removed his tonsils with a chainsaw, and then he became a stunt double for Optimus Prime, and then he dribbled a football, and then he threw a boomerang but the boomerang did not return because it was scared to come back, and then he told the State lottery the number of people that he had roundhouse kicked on that day so they could use it as the Lottery number, and then he performed a colonoscopy on himself, and then he invented the Caesarean section when he roundhouse-kicked his way out of his monther's womb, and then he defeated a brick wall in a game of tennis, and then he swallowed a turtle whole and the turtle was six feet tall and had learned karate when he crapped it out, and then he declined the syringe and instead requested a hand gun and a bucket when he went to donate blood, and then he wrote a book by scaring the words to assemble themselves, and then he ate a whole cake before his friends could tell him there was a stripper in it.
uh.. i found out through a friend and i thought he was just kidding.. then i came home and looked it up and got really depressed. but somehow we still kept winning which gave me a high till we got knocked out of the playoffs...
At first I thought our chance of even making the playoffs was over but then after thinking it over, and seeing how the Rockets continued to play (during the streak) I thought we could still at least win a playoff series.
It was a fine day Until I sat down in the lab and the guy right next to me says "Yao is out for the year?"
i was taking a dump when i heard the news no lie. my friend text msgd me while i was doin my business. man i'll remember that moment for the rest of my life.
it was ok. i knew we could win without yao in the regular season and i knew even with yao our chances in the playoff wouldn't be good anyway.
i was so angry at yao hahaha. i dont wonna think about it. if they (tmac and yao) don't stay healthy next season, i think its time to move on. there should be no excuse. there just cant be...they're getting older.
Then why are you here? I have yet to see one Rockets fan who didn't think we could have made some noise in the playoff with Yao in the lineup. Of course what you said doesn't count because you are just a fake fan here to spread hate. Why would you waste your time to be a fool here is beyond me. You should use your time in a more meaningful way, like hanging out with your gay buddies who are haters too.
i was at work and received three text messages from different people in the space of an hour. can't answer calls or make them at work so i thought the first one was a joke from a good mate of mine...the second, i felt pretty bummed but wanted to check still. the third was just a kick in the guts. felt pretty crappy and disappointed the rest of the whole day :*( and even when we won the first couple without him i still felt like crap. everyone knew we were done for the playoffs the moment he went down.
I found out before lunch. And when I went, I saw this friend whose sort of a douche bag (yeah and a HUGE spurs fan). I saw him and told him "don't say a damn word or I'll beat your a$$". Yeah, I was on edge, pissed, and really, REALLY upset.
I swear, i was wearing my Yao jersey that day, when I walked into Poli Sci my professor made some joke about it being over for the rockets then some dude next to me explained. If you listened closely, u could hear my heart break.
I made a $50 bet with a coworker that the Rockets would finish the regular season with a better record than the Mavericks. Turned out to be a good bet.
I was actually really excited. I feel Yao holds us back from a much more up tempo game. We weren't going to win with him or without him. At least we got the win streak out of it.
it was a beautiful weekend day. I was doing errands in my car and was hoping for the sports radio to talk about the 12 game winning streak that the ROckets were rolling on. when the ESPN radio (non-local) Sports Report came on, the first thing they said was "Houston Rockets Center Yao Ming..." my first instinct was excitement: I was waiting for them to talk Rockets, so I was eager to hear what they had to say. but then the end of the phrase hit me. "... is out for the season with a stress fracture in his foot." that was a crappy day. it's funny, my friends in Houston hear about this stuff from me. so of course I called all my Houston buddies and none of them had heard the news (they dont obsess over the ROckets and read cf.net like all of us here do)
I was upset, but somehow not surprised. I just knew either Yao or T-Mac wouldn't make it through the rest of the season/playoffs. One of them was going to go down, along with our hopes for past glory. We seem to be cursed since Hakeem left. We have literally done nothing of note since then. I do think it's funny how many people in this thread are known as "that Rocket guy" because that's exactly how all my friends know me. Especially here at work. People were calling me the next day asking if I was okay. Like I lost a family member or something.
I was in a sad mode for at least two weeks. I can accept their loss, but not this kind of disappointment. All my hope is next season now, wish ....
of course, all was made better with the following 10 games. it was like holding off the inevitable. each win fed the fans and the team with excitement and adrenaline. but the expectations were skewed. everyone kept talking about the 19, 20, and 33 game win streaks- all of those teams won the title. there was no way we could do it without the Big Fella, but the team was so damn exciting during that run...
