The Rockets were really good the last 8 years, be happy

That's a nice way to look at it homie, but

Anti harden fans: stfu we didn't win a ring, so harden is a choker/btch. Trade his ass now for being ungrateful.

Some people are just spoiled btches. Imagine being a kings/hornets/knicks fan.

 

It was a fun time indeed and seemed like we were very close for multiple years straight. It was better than the time then us relying on T-Mac or Yao's health on a year to year basis. That 2018 playoffs unfortunately left the same taste in my mouth as the 2009 (2008?) where we had T-Mac, Yao, Mutombo all injure themselves in the second half of the season/playoffs. But that's part of being a sports fan. Ups and downs.

 

Preach

 

With the trajectory Tilman Fertitta has this franchise heading, we won't have to wait too long to experience just what that's like.

How that idiot can even show his face at Rockets games is beyond me right now.

 

Maybe these fans are mad because they want the good days to continue and don’t think it should end. We all remember the Kevin Martin days and don’t want to go back to those. That’s why some people are mad because Harden wants to leave, even though we have been close many times and I think if the front office can tweak the roster every year maybe we will break through but if Harden leaves we are basically hitting the reset button and who knows how long it will take until the team gets back to being close again.

Amazingly the Harden teams have been so much more successful then any of the Yao and McGrady teams. That’s very surprising when u think about it.

 

Imagine being a Lakers, Warriors, Spurs or Heat fan.

 

Y should I care about band wagoners? lol.

 

Eric is having fun again?!

 

Clemons sucks.

 

I think - 2009 was better for Yao/tmac (finally out of 1st round) - but it was due to Yao and Artest - if tmac didn't have the surgery or tried some alternatives/if Yao didn't go down against the Lakers in Round 2... They might have had a shot - especially since the injured rockets still took the eventual champion lakers to 7 games. I know what you're referring to though on the 22 games or whatever and regular season franchise records are nice... but don't mean much when you don't win it - then again you're right though about the injuries lots of things would be different. Like 1998 - houston had Utah on the ropes and barkley's arm injury derailed that. I think they would have had a shot even as the 8th seed (due to injuries) to maybe face the Bulls.


With that said during Harden's time in Houston he's had the Rockets the closest to a championship since the 1997 WCF run (yeah he might have had some bad playoffs/questionable performances but he was the reason the Rockets were close in the 1st place, I mean w/o him some of those years houston wouldn't have made the playoffs). So.... It's been fun, but not great like 94 and 95, but I wouldn't trade it for these awful franchises that haven't done anything. Houston has had more success in the post Hakeem Era than some franchises have ever had - so while it'll suck if this is it, it's still better than nothing. I'm definitely not looking forward to where it looks like this team will be headed post Harden but I'll still watch the Rockets.

 

Jalen Rose would say happiness is a function of expectations. I didn't expect the Rockets to be as successful as they were all things considered. It's just the way they lost that was sometimes disappointing. Oh well, Harden's a historically special player and we watched him grow up in Houston. I hope the NBA pulls some draft shenanigans so they won't lose this market, but we're probably going to suck with this ownership. I'm ready for that. It was a good run.

 

I preferred the Yao Ming era over the Harden era, to be honest.

Both were really good, but I just liked the ball that Yao, Scola and Tmac played.

DD