Rockets were heavily favored vs Lakers, who were without Luka and Reaves (who combined for over 56 points per game) and had only a 41 year old veteran on his farewell tour. Rockets blew a historic 6-point lead with under 30 seconds left in Game 3 to become only the only the second team in 30 years to lose a playoff game with that lead. Rockets invested in a 37 year old Veteran player, who gets injured in practice during the playoffs, and lacks motivation. Fertitta was gifted the most talented TEAM in 2017 that won a franchise-record 65 wins, was Number 1 in the conference, and each year released players and coaches (i.e. CP3, the Beard, D'Antoni, Ariza) from that team because he was too cheap and didn't care about giving the Houston fans a champion. Fertitta took a First place team and in less than 4 years took it to a LAST place conference team. All the while he watched teams like OKC, and the Spurs overtake his Rockets. Ime like Mitch Johnson is a protégé of Popovich, whose system is built on the big man. Yet all we have is a 37 year old has been, wing player. Fertitta is not accountable, and the Houston fans are enablers. Same goes for the Texans cheap man McNair losing to Patriots 1st year coach and rookie QB, and Astros Crane keeping Bagwell in the front office (dismissing James Click) ruining the team. Don't take it. Take action. Pull your season tickets, boycott the games, put bags over your head in games in protest. Have them sell the team to a better owner and change the City's identity.
I’m not going to any games next season unless there’s major changes but we all know this organization isn’t gonna feel any pressure from the local media or the fanbase the city doesn’t care enough about the team to boycott or protest anything, let’s be real Tilman doesn’t even care about the organization anymore
Real hard for me to get mad at Crane after he took an MLB afterthought and earned two titles on one of the longest runs of continued success in MLB history. but I definitely agree about Tilman.
A big chunk of the season tickets go to corporate salesmen who just use them to woo clients as a perk. A few isolated angry fans will have minimal impact on their revenue. So, just do what's best for you.
Expectations were a bit higher then because of the league MVP and a 2 seed…and our nemesis already being knocked out!
Yeah and to choke a series you have to be a better team than this. This isn’t choking. We’ve always underperformed in the playoffs with this team. We’re just bad.
Wonder how much money could be won if someone who could manipulate results were to have bet on the Lakers.
