We're about to find out if this team has any pride or heart whatsoever

Mill,

I think they are scared.

They don't have a leader, and they don't know how to finish strong.

They are playing their worst basketball at the worst time for us fans.

The only 2 players playing decently are Cat and JJ, the rest of the team looks lost out there.

Francis is an idiot, Yao has no energy, and the next defense that MoT plays will be his first.

DD

 

exactly, how many times did Taylor leave his man (Robinson) open only to have him make every freaking shot in the 3rd anf 2nd.

 

well, to be honest, everyone would like to succeed in their careers, including basketball players.

but when you give most people very large guaranteed contracts, winning some sort of mythical "world championship" probably isn't such a big priority anymore. the bigger priority would be having a longer summer vacation and having opportunities to spend your millions.

only the truly self motivated try to win or succeed, even when the rewards are already given to them beforehand.

in other words, if the team misses the playoffs, expect the fans to be crying a lot more than most of the players.

the following was not intended to be a paternalistic rant about human behavior.

 

I think they have already answered that question, next question.

 

I disagree Rocks. Gut check time has come and gone. Utah, Denver and Portland are playing their asses off right now and Houston's choking far worse than any other team with anything to lose. Any team in this league can beat any other team in this league on any given night. They just have to want it more. Each of the three teams chasing us is proving that. And each of them wants it far worse than anyone on our team. It's last year all over again. Looking over the schedule, figuring there's no way Phoenix (with a much tougher schedule than us) could pass us, watching us choke over and over again and watching them play their hearts out, beating teams far better than themselves.

"No more excuses?" That was true a week ago. Now we've just got to face facts. We love a gutless team. I've been a Rockets fan since the 1970s and I have never, NEVER been so disappointed in them. They play dumb, yes. They play lazy, yes. But the worst thing is they flat don't care. I'm getting really close to not caring either.

 

we will most likely lose to the clippers. And excuses will come up- like we were tired blah blah blah.

 

All things being equal the goal for this team was to make the playoffs. We are in a better spot than last year at this time after the playoffs start i think the sting of how they played these last games will go away.............LETS HOPE

 

It is a shame we even have to discuss ways for them to squeek in...they should have had this thing locked up already.

DD

 

You wont like this!
Francis proves he was right after all!
a] JVG is no better than Rudy T
b] Yao Ming made no difference to this team
c] I only play my 'A' Game when I am in control of what is going on, not when JVG is directing things.
In the upocoming offseason no team wants to Trade for Francis so CD Trades Yao Ming to Cleveland and JVG becomes the new Coach of Dallas. The irony of it all is that Next season Dallas wins the NBA Championship and the season after Cleveland wins it all and their dynasty goes on to win seven in a row.

 

How can you expect this Team to have HEART. Most of them know deep down in their heart that they wont be back next season, after making a complete disaster of what could have been a decent Team.

 

I agree with RocksMillenium. Our destiny is controlled in our hands. Do anybody remember the preseason games? We lost the first 4 games and won the last 4, then we carry the momemtum to the regular season with a 8-3 start. If the same trend happens again, since we have lost 5 straight games, we will win the next 5 and get out of the 1st round in playoff.

Hope that Rockets can prove me I am not dreaming!

 

RM, our magic # with portland is 3, and if we win 2 and they lose 1, we clinch being ahead of them, but we don't clinch finishing ahead of denver or utah and we have to beat at least 1 on top of beating portland.

if we win these 2, we still have a magic # of 2 against utah. beat utah, our magic # will be reduced by 3 b/c of our win, their loss, and us officially having the tiebreaker then. if we beat utah even if we lose the next two we basically are going to be ahead of them.

if we win these 2 we still have a magic # of 1 against denver.

 

The problem is fundamental.

Our backcourt is so fundamentally terrible that teams have adjusted to that over the season. That's why this late in the season, teams are able to limit them.


11 assists and 16 TO's?


They didn't have Dampier and they didn't have a PG on the entire roster, why weren't Steve and Yao able to dominate?


I'm so disgusted. You guys should've seen the look on my face when I saw the score. I just wanted to throw up.