Rockets: real talk, how do you fix houston?

[djohn2oo8]

I thought the Comets had a bunch of les. I remember that late 90s - early 00s era when all the Rockets fans talked about how they liked WNBA ball so much better than seeing Shaq dunk.

Yeah 4. The only people who watched or went to those games were trannies from Montrose. Or lesbians.

[Caltex2]

I don't understand the NBA is weak argument. They added one team in the last 20 years but have a larger pool of talent worldwide now. Meanwhile in the 90s you had four recent expansion teams with less overseas talent to fill out NBA rosters. You can point towards bigmen being phased out of the game, but there was nowhere near the level of shooting there is now. But the NBA was better because Derek Harper could throw his forearm into guys and Rick Mahorn could clothesline people going in the lane.

You're right that the there is a bigger talent pool but the talent isn't as fundamentally sound as it used to be. Everyone now days, more or less, grew up wanting to be like Jordan, Kobe or Iverson with many exceptions but the depth at big man is much shallower and the overall level of fundamentals is less. I'm old enough to remember the NBA in early 90's and the talent gap is noticably less. Granted, you can't get away with mauling people like you could in the 90's but it doesn't change the less fundamentally sound play, the focus on the 3-point shot and the slacking by some teams, like the Rockets.

The NBA is also more image conscious, so they won't let just any deranged street thug play ball in the league and if they did I imagine there'd be more Ron Artest type events, like when he went in the stands. So even if you have the talent, do you have a good image for the type of fan the NBA is trying to attract? And more than anything, the NBA wants fans in the stands as much as they want fans watching on TV, so that means they need corporations and their game ticket buyers to want to come and feel good about taking their family (you noticed that owner in Atlanta selling his share after trying to scare away some fans). Up until 10-15 years ago, the NBA didn't really care unless you did something really bad off the court, and depending upon how bad it wouldn't stop them from granting a second chance.

[Caltex2]

The Spurs have more championships than all of Houston's ty pro sports teams combined

The pro teams that people in general care about.

[Caltex2]

Yeah 4. The only people who watched or went to those games were trannies from Montrose. Or lesbians.

At the end. Come on, the Comets used to sell out Lakewood Church--I mean, Compaq Center for the first 6-7 years they were there, routinely. Can't deny it and why not? They helped open a league with 4 les, any novelty that succeeds like that will be a hit anywhere, like the Jackson 5 having all those number 1 hits.