Working as a team? I don't even want to debate you whether Yao is a team player or not because the truth is so obvious that only idiots will try to argue the otherwise. Alright, back to the discussion. Are you now telling me that you are more excited and concerned about it than whether the team became better or worse and how far it would go in the playoff? What kind of fan you really are if that's what you think? Know what? The problem of our 'discussion' now is that you are trying not to make yourself clear in anything. Let me make sure exactly what you mean there before I go on.
I found out via ESPNews. I just thought,it was typical of my luck as a sports fan. When everything is high and mighty and doin good, i get put back down to earth with tha quickness.
That was a pretty crappy week... Yao announced on the 26th, my birthday (the first past thirty making me old) on the 27th, then two days later, Patrick Patterson is out for the season with the same thing as Yao. Both my teams hopes crushed in the same week. It was like losing a pet, my car and my house in the same week.
I was directing a production of "Raisin In The Sun" and was at the theatre working on the set during the day. The sound designer for the show was JP, the Rockets PA announcer (who BTW is a great guy and very talented). He came in and told me to sit down because he had some bad news. I thought he was going to tell me he couldn't work on the show but instead he told me about Yao. We worked on the show a bit, but were mostly just quiet the rest of the day. It didn't really settle in until later when I got home and checked in here. It's a good thing I had the show going on, because I had to focus all my attention on that - and we kept winning so that helped too.
it was as bad as stockton hitting the buzzer beater and knocking us out of the playoffs...that was the end of the season for us... the rest of the regualr season was like preseason because we already knew we couldn't go to the finals without YAO....we already knew our fate ahead of time... at least with preseason games you have a seson to look forward to....with this, we still had the agony of knowing what was coming....AT best another 1st round exit...
I actually got the news in the morning from a coworker who's not very into basketball and the Rockets... My first reaction was, haha, great joke. Yao out for the season when he's been playing well and the team is rolling? Yeah right. And then I logged on ESPN, read the headlines, and had to check the calendar to make sure it wasn't April 1st. It wasn't. And the rest of the day sucked.
That was a bad day. The 22-game win streak was really, really fun, but since that day I'm done with this team and its makeup. I'm not ready to be up for another year of watching two potentially great players start out the year, one or both miss twenty or thirty games, then talk about "what could have been." They're great guys and all, but they have glass legs and feet. By the end of the first round this year, Yao had been on crutches for a couple of months and Tracy was having things wrapped and re-wrapped and taking pain shots during the game. This team is just a season-ending heartbreak waiting to happen. Over and over again. I'm ready to trade one or both and start over. I do not believe they can remain healthy enough for the Rox to get a decent seed after the regular season *and* advance in the playoffs.
I got picked up from school and I turned on the radio in the vehicle to 610 AM, and I heard all these people talking about all this weird crap about Yao, like, there was this Afro-American guy who called in and just started yelling and stuff and they started talking about all of Yao's injuries, and I just sat there listening to it for about 5 minutes before they said again that Yao was out for the season because I missed it the first time they said it and then I just plain couldn't believe what I had heard.
Devastating. I remember logging on to see any new news on the Brent Barry situation. Then Came from NO where
It was terrible, to say the very least. That day was my birthday. No joke. I found out about it about two hours after I woke up. The icing on the cake was that a bird sh** on my head when I left work that day. Also not a joke. Literally the second I walked out of the building that day, a bird crapped squarely, RIGHT on top of my head. Some of my friends also flaked out of a birthday dinner that night, but by that point I didn't even care anymore, haha. It's a day I will never forget... but the Rockets did do their best to lift my spirits in the evening, when they laid an absolutely epic ass-whooping on the Wizards. That was genuinely inspirational to watch.
It was a normal day for me, just like any other day. I logged onto Clutchfans to get the daily Rox scoop and BAM! It was like I got hit head on by a speeding freight train. I locked myself in the bathroom, balled up and cried for an hour. Worst day of my life.
I can remember SO well. I was sitting in my PR class and I get a text from one of my friends. "Yao's out for the season. Broke his foot." I couldn't believe it. I thought for sure that it was a joke because he looked ok against the Bulls. I was trying to think where and how did it happen if it did. I was thinking it was in practice. Then I get another text saying Yao broke his foot from another friend. I couldn't concentrate in class after that. I was shocked. After class, this girl that was sitting behind me made a comment about the Rockets (because she was doing the Rockets as a client for class and had a question for my professor) and I told her and the whole class that Yao was going to be out for the season. The entire class was shocked. The girl was a little mad because she had tickets to the Lakers (where we won 22 in a row). That ruined the entire day for me, and people of the radio made me feel even worse because of the way they were talking.
Was in physics class. Had a cute chick sit right next to me, and introduce herself to me. My friend (spurs fan) sends me a text saying "Houston Rockets, where there's always next season happens". I text back saying "Huh?". and he tells me yao is out of the season. Right there I forget about the chick, my mood changes and I start sulking. A day that looked like it had potential was ruined...
