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Your Season Summary

Posted: Sat May 3, 2008 6:49 pm
by Ribalding
Focus : Give your thoughts on the Rockets season. Good, bad, ugly, or otherwise.

- This sucks. I wanted to see them advance. But I don't think anyone can say they're shocked by the loss. Without Yao and Rafer, the Rockets were crippled at the onset against Utah.

- I have never in my life (and I'm old) seen officiating as lopsided as the 1st and 3rd quarters of last night's loss. It was comically bad. It was so ridiculous I didn't even get mad. I was just fascinated. The Jazz big men could have sodomized a Rockets player at half court and the refs would've no-called it. Granted, I don't think it cost the Rockets the game. In every 7 game series, there are two blowouts (one for each team), and 5 close games. Game 6 was their blowout. Game 5 was the Rockets' blowout. And w/out Rafer in the 2nd half, it was inevitable.

- As for next season's Rockets chances, I am equal parts encouraged and worried. The development of our young guys is reason to be pleased. Yao and Tracy's dubious health is a real reason to worry.

- Season summary:

IMHO, this season came down to 3 things-

1. Health. 'nuff said.
2. New System. It took 3 months for the Rockets to 'click' in Adelman's new system. And 3 months for Adelman to figure out his rotation. Those first 2-3 months' record hamstrung the team from a playoff position perspective.
3. 22 game win streak. Without it, the Rockets would have been in an even worse playoff seed. Rockets fans would be well-served to remember it. Without that streak, even making the playoffs would have been in serious peril.

Thoughts? Requests? Additions? Objections?

Posted: Sat May 3, 2008 8:03 pm
by highrangeslang
I say it was an A+ season. I was a naysayer the entire way. I didn't want JVG to be fired and I didn't like Adelman.

I predicted we would win less than 50 games and possibly not make the playoffs. This was before Yao went out.

When we did get in the playoffs, I predicted we'd get swept or lose in 5 games.

So the Rockets exceeded my expectations every step of the way.

Posted: Sat May 3, 2008 11:18 pm
by PurpleTestament
Ribalding please post more. One of my favorites on the board:

However I understand what you're saying about the officiating. But we knew going up against Utah it was going to be inconsistent and poor. What we can control is shots and finishing which didn't happen many times during this series. We had a few times when the infamous scoring drought absolutely took us out of the game. Once a bad call or two happened it was all she wrote. As JVG once so eloquently put it our margin for error is very small.

Season summary:
It will go down in the epoch of Rockets grandeur as a season much like 04-05. A year that started unimpressive before the allstar break then ending with exciting ball till the last few weeks of the season. It leaves you with something to look forward too but didn't we feel the same way that year too?

I'm not going to harp on Yao being out for most of the series. What's done is done and maybe some good will come out of it in our preparation for next year with a possible significant addition. Otherwise while I love the team we have now we can't be complacent in the off season. Find our insurance policy.