How can this regular season monolithic team become complete ass? They're letting the Yankees obliterate them? Experts please help on why this is happening? Is is the coach being a bonehead? It's starting to remind of the 05 stros and the Oilers/Bills playoff game-THAT REALLY SPECIAL ONE.
Bullpen melting down last night was predictable, bats freezing up all series was not. It happens. Not over yet, still ~25% chance Houston wins the next 2 and goes to the World Series.
Yeah. Baseball and football are those kind of sports where a low seed can get hot at the right moment and win it all. You'll never see it in the NBA. The most you'll get is a team getting hot during a series and taking it to 7 games and even if they win they flame out the next round. EDIT: Just the nature in the sports. Football you can have flukey things that turn a game around. A random fumble or INT-Pick 6 Baseball you can have guys get on bases through lame hits and then have that one big hit that turns the game around (like the Yankees did) Basketball...a big play is only worth 2-3 points, max 4 points. The momentum may swing after a big 4 point play but your team is still down 15 or something. Basketball is just a lot more consistent.
I've always preferred "Disastros" when an Astros team turns like this. And it's pretty consistent throughout Astros history that I've watched since the late 80s. It's almost always just been a really laid-back team with laid-back management. The last manager I can remember that really didn't put up with any **** was Larry Dierker. I wouldn't mind another Astros manager that got pissed off and knew how to really hold the players to account when they just clearly aren't putting in everything they've got. And we KNOW they've got it. We saw them getting it like crazy for the first half of the year. Astros teams tend to flame out, and it just always seems to be a mental thing in my observations. If the manager and coaches can't get their players out of funks and slumps and bad habits and poor attitudes and all that, then what the hell good are they for? At the same time, how you can you be on this big a stage and come this far and just not want it as a player? It's a mystery to me.
Yes, yes they were but we seemed to have cooled them off. Shall our team do it once more against LA? Probably, most likely. Yes. Houston has a tradition of beating New York and LA. Nothing new here.
not really though, they were the lowest seed EVER to do it (and still are), and the main reason they were a low seed because they were two different teams. One with Clyde and one without. It would be like if some 6th seeded team...say the Clippers or something, went out and acquired an elite player at the deadline, while they are the 6th seed, they are not exactly the same team that's in that spot. You add a major player like that, then it makes any low seeded team a little more dangerous because you don't know how good they are until you actually see them. This is the definition of an exception, but I never considered it because it was a season of two different teams.
Just say you were wrong and move on. "You'll never see it in the NBA. " You were wrong. I'm right like Rudy. No excuses needed Rocket fan. The Rockets sucked in the regular season, Clyde didn't help them climb the ladder in the regular season, but we got hot and won. You were wrong about what you said. That's it. Plain and simple. Be a man and quit avoiding your wrongness. A true man would just say, "you got me". WTF is wrong with you? There's nothing to prove with excuses. You were wrong. Hakeem was right. Rudy T was right. Don't ever underestimate the heart of a champion and you're a bullshit Rockets fan for forgetting that we came from the 6th seed to win it all. That was special. We had no easy tests on the way and we passed all of them with flying colors. 1994-1995 6th Seed Rockets and champions - Never. Forget. Also, we were 17 and 18 (losing record) with Clyde in the regular season. He didn't save anything. He got hot in the playoffs just like you said we would "never see it in the NBA."
