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Blogs
May 7, 2013
Rockets Report Card: Handing Out the Grades With the Season Over
At the beginning of the season, even after the trade for James Harden, I was convinced this was not a playoff team. Right before the season started, I wrote this in a blog post, "With youth comes athleticism, energy and excitement. It also brings inexperience, inconsistency and the occasional train ... More >>
Blogs
May 6, 2013
After a Successful Season, Big Questions Loom for Young Rockets
It's difficult to believe anyone outside of the most hardcore fans truly believed the Rockets would be a playoff team this year. Most, including myself, assumed they would finish under .500 and back in the lottery. Even with James Harden, an unproven starter, added before the season, it was tough to ... More >>
Blogs
May 2, 2013
Holy Hack Asik, Batman! Rockets Win in OKC to Force Game Six
The Thunder had no answer. They tried shooting threes. They tried running. They tried hard fouls. They tried flopping. Ultimately, down much of the game to the visiting Rockets, the Thunder tried fouling Rockets center Omer Asik on every possession. Asik, who shot only 52 percent from the charity st ... More >>
Blogs
May 2, 2013
Rockets-Thunder Game 5: 4 Winners, 4 Losers
The Rockets began this series with the Thunder by falling behind three games to none, with a deer-in-the-headlights Game 1 preceding two very winnable games in Games 2 and 3. No team in NBA history has come back from a 3-0 deficit to win a series, and to expect an 8 seed like the Rockets to become t ... More >>
Blogs
May 1, 2013
Five Lessons Learned So Far by the Inexperienced Rockets in the Postseason
A friend of mine has pointed out to me that "young" may not always be the appropriate term to use for the current Rockets rosters, particularly when comparing them to Oklahoma City. After all, Russell Westbrook and Jeremy Lin are the same age and James Harden has played with OKC deep into the playof ... More >>
Blogs
April 30, 2013
Put the Brooms Away: Rockets Stave Off Elimination with Clutch Win
Like every game except the first one in the series, the Rockets and Thunder went right down to the wire in game four. In every other game, the Thunder got the big shot or the turnover needed to win the game. Monday night, it was finally the Rockets' turn. Chandler Parsons did what only two other p ... More >>
News
April 25, 2013
Keep Houston Beard
A movement, for the playoffs.
Blogs
April 25, 2013
Rockets Come Back from 15 Down in the Fourth Only to Fall in OKC
So close and yet so far. The Rockets were about as close as you can come to pulling off the upset in Oklahoma City Wednesday night. The Thunder were fumbling all over themselves and missing shots. The Rockets were stroking it and rolling. Of course, they were down 15, but their furious fourth-quart ... More >>
Blogs
April 23, 2013
Five Reasons The Rockets Playoff Run Isn't Generating More Buzz
I listen to a lot of sports radio and talk to people online and off about sports on a regular basis. Despite the fact that the Rockets are in the playoffs for the first time in three years, there just isn't the buzz about the team Houston has seen in years past. There are fewer calls about them on s ... More >>
Blogs
April 22, 2013
Are You Experienced? Rockets Take Beating in Game One Against the Thunder
At the end of his rookie season, Kobe Bryant missed a lot of shots. In one particular game, he heaved up a series of air balls with the game on the line. He was 18 years old. This is how it goes with young players. They come into the league as boys and have to face grown men whose development is su ... More >>
Blogs
April 19, 2013
Top Five Things to Do in Houston Sports This Weekend: Depressed Aeros Edition
Well, it's official. The Houston Aeros is moving to...Iowa. I've been to Des Moines. It's a nice town. But, losing our only tie to professional hockey pretty much sucks. I'm depressed. But, I have to suck it up because there is lots more to do and I can't get bogged down in something like this. I me ... More >>
Blogs
April 16, 2013
Keep Houston Beard: Rockets Fans Create Meme, T-Shirt in Support of Team
Rockets fans have, at times, been criticized for their lack of fervor. Outside of the Red Rowdies, the Toyota Center can be a staid place, even during critical games. But much of that is owed to the fact that the most expensive seats -- the seats often occupied by corporate interests rather than har ... More >>
Blogs
April 11, 2013
The Rockets Are Back In The NBA Playoffs! Their Complete Rebuilding Anthology
With four games to go in the 2011-2012 season, the Rockets were coming off a 117-110 loss to Dallas, a loss in which Dirk Nowitzki provided a stark reminder to last season's Rockets team that they were devoid of a superstar caliber player by dropping 21 points on them in the fourth quarter. To call ... More >>
Blogs
April 10, 2013
Goooooooal Tending: Rockets Beat Suns, Make Playoffs on Bizarre Final Play
"What a long strange trip it's been." -- The Grateful Dead It is fitting in a season as crazy as this one that the young Rockets' road to the playoffs would ultimately come down to a game, a play and a call like the ones that occurred Tuesday night at Toyota Center. All season, the Rockets have don ... More >>
Blogs
March 28, 2013
Rockets Close Out Home Stand with Loss to Pacers
If at the beginning of this seven-game homestand someone would ask the average Rocket fan what a good record would be given the teams on the schedule, most would likely want 7-0, but they would certainly settle for 5-2, which is exactly what they got after the Rockets went down to the NBA's league-l ... More >>
Blogs
March 27, 2013
Mr. Big: Hard Work Sends Greg Smith from D-League to Rotation Player on Playoff-Bound Rockets
After a recent practice, Rockets players Greg Smith, Thomas Robinson, Dontas Montejunas and James Harden spent a few rare minutes working on their post up games with coach Kevin McHale. While Harden was there just to give the young players a hard time and get in some extra reps, Smith and Thomas spe ... More >>
Blogs
March 25, 2013
March Madness: Further Evidence The 2013 NBA Draft Is Going To Be Terrible
When it comes to rebuilding a professional sports team, the ultimate sign of the desperate fan is to take one possible outcome that has worked for a few teams before, apply it as gospel, and then shout from the rooftops that "[fill in name of favorite team here] needs to [do that thing that's worked ... More >>
Blogs
March 25, 2013
Rockets Make Winning Plays Late, Beat Spurs 96-95 on Harden's Late Jumper
It's been a while since Rockets fans have experienced something like this. For those of us who have followed the Rockets for 20 or 30 years, we can remember plenty of times they rose up to make big shots against the rival San Antonio Spurs...and quite a few that went the other direction. But, Sunday ... More >>
Blogs
March 21, 2013
Playoff Chase: Rockets Beat Utah, Warriors Lose to Spurs
Last night, as I mentioned yesterday, was a big night for the Rockets. In their hunt for a playoff spot -- they missed the last two seasons -- they faced Utah at Toyota Center and while the Jazz have not exactly played like world beaters recently, their formidable front line would seem to match up w ... More >>
Blogs
March 18, 2013
The Good News-Bad News for the Rockets as They Drive for the Playoffs
Last night was a frustrating night for the young Rockets squad. They had their worst offensive output of the season, scoring just 78 points (10 in the first quarter) and getting it handed to them in the most lopsided loss of the season against the team directly ahead of them in the playoff chase, Go ... More >>
Blogs
March 11, 2013
Keep Hope Alive: Rockets Meandering Along Towards the Playoffs
"It's the same old story, same old song and dance, my friend." - Aerosmith All year, I've repeatedly said that following the Rockets is like riding a roller coaster. There are some tremendous highs and some devastating lows, but no matter what happens, it's always exciting. This weekend was more of ... More >>
Blogs
March 4, 2013
Rockets Crush Mavs: 44-Point Third Buries Dallas, Probably Ruins Playoff Chances
It's never a bad thing when, in one night, you can absolutely destroy a Dallas sports franchise on the floor and, for all practical purposes, ruin their chances of making the playoffs. Given that the Rockets haven't beaten the Mavericks in nine straight tries leading up to last night's win at Toyota ... More >>
Blogs
February 26, 2013
Five Reasons the Young Rockets Will Make the Playoffs This Year
Last year, the Rockets were in the driver's seat with just a few weeks left in the season. They were in the sixth spot in the Western Conference seeding and virtual lock to make the playoffs. Then all hell broke loose. They lost six straight games and found themselves out of the playoffs for the thi ... More >>
Blogs
February 21, 2013
Win-Win: Harden Blisters Former Team On the Court, Morey Does the Same to Sacramento Off Landing Robinson
The NBA trade deadline is always a weird time. It comes on the heels of the NBA's most glamorous weekend and right in the middle of the season. Most years there are trades here and there. Occasionally, there's a blockbuster. Since Daryl Morey has taken over as the general manager for the Rockets, th ... More >>
Blogs
February 15, 2013
NBA All-Star Game Features Some of the Best Players Today, Tomorrow, Ever
It's easy to sit around like an old fart and complain about how great All-Star games used to be. In some ways, the old farts are right. There were NBA All-Star games in the `80s and `90s where the number of future Hall of Famers numbered in the mid-teens. No offense to the Jerry Stackhouse, Anthony ... More >>
News
February 14, 2013
Goodwill Ambassador
Kenny Smith on All-Star Weekend and His Eventual Return to Clutch City
Blogs
February 14, 2013
NBA All-Star Game: Your Prop Bets For This Weekend
Michael Jordan turns 50 this weekend, I'm not sure if you've heard. In case you missed the incessant career retrospective pieces that ran on Sportscenter or the story of MJ's renting the Museum of Fine Arts here in Houston for his birthday shindig this weekend, the most iconic team sport athlete o ... More >>
Blogs
February 14, 2013
Rockets at Midseason: The Grades Are In
With the All-Star break on us, it seems logical to talk about where our local NBA team stands at the season's figurative midpoint. I say "figurative" because the Rockets passed their actual midpoint in January at which point they were 21-20 coming off the last game of a season-long seven-game losing ... More >>
Blogs
February 8, 2013
The Jet Loves Houston: Kenny Smith on All-Star Weekend and His Eventual Return to Clutch City
Former Rockets guard and current member of the best pre-game sports show on television, Kenny Smith, is a big fan of Houston, calling his ties here "deep rooted." "People I consider my best friends in the world are still in Houston," Smith told Hair Balls. "My godchildren are there." The NBA and i ... More >>
Blogs
January 30, 2013
Rockets Confounding Season of Ups and Downs Continues with a 45-Point Win in Utah
For all their inconsistency this season, there is a certain amount of relative consistency to the Rockets season. Whenever they lose a few, they come back and win a few, or vice versa. The league's youngest team will struggle to shoot with any consistency and turn the ball over like playground balle ... More >>
Blogs
January 23, 2013
Turnovers, Inconsistency, Lack of Defense Hurt the Rockets During Losing Streak
Sometimes, as the saying goes, you can't hit the ocean from the beach. During the Rockets' seven-game losing streak, which mercifully came to an end at Charlotte on Monday afternoon with a 100-96 Martin Luther King Day matinee win, the Rockets have been awful from the floor. James Harden has been sh ... More >>
Blogs
January 17, 2013
Six Examples of How James Harden Follows in the Tradition of Great Rockets Hair
When the Houston Rockets acquired James Harden in late October, general manager Daryl Morey finally found the superstar that he longed for. Houston would go on to post billboards around the city featuring Harden with the caption, "The Beard Has Landed!" So far, Harden has delivered, as he is one of ... More >>
Blogs
January 9, 2013
Beat LA: Rockets Take Out Injury-Riddled Lakers to Run Streak to Five
The Rockets faced a depleted Lakers squad missing three key players including Pau Gasol and Dwight Howard Tuesday night at Toyota Center in a classic trap game. The first game of yet another five-games-in-four-nights stretch for the Rockets against a very short-handed team makes for situation Coach ... More >>
Blogs
January 3, 2013
Rockets Continue to Pummel the Bad Teams with Win Over the Hornets
The New Orleans Hornets are one of the worst teams in the NBA without their star guard Eric Gordon and they weren't with them Wednesday night when they visited the Toyota Center. The result was a 104-92 win for the Rockets that was perhaps closer than it should have been at times. James Harden had ... More >>
Blogs
December 25, 2012
NBA Season Jump Starts with Spate of Christmas Day Games Including the Rockets
In 2011, Christmas Day was the literal start to the NBA season thanks to a lockout that kept the season from starting for nearly two full months. Most every other year, the season starts in October, but for the casual fan, it doesn't really get going until Christmas Day. With the NFL taking the day ... More >>
Blogs
December 18, 2012
Rockets Rout Knicks in Lin's Return to Madison Square Garden
The center of the Linsanity and basketball universe saw the prodigal son return and Jeremy Lin and the Rockets faced the Knicks for the second and final time Monday night, routing New York 109-96 in a game that blew open after a 27-11 second quarter from the Rockets. Lin stepped back on the floor wh ... More >>
Blogs
December 17, 2012
Rocket Roller Coaster Continues with Wins, Losses and a Trip Back to NYC for Lin
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Blogs
December 14, 2012
Daryl Morey Fires Off A Kurkjian Style Stat Dork Tweet To Defend Jeremy Lin
By any real measurement, the first season for Jeremy Lin as a Houston Rocket has been fairly pedestrian. Statistically, he has struggled shooting the basketball (.399 field goal percentage) and seen his minutes scaled back in recent weeks. Purely to the human eye, Lin has had trouble meshing with ba ... More >>
Blogs
December 12, 2012
Linsanity Finally Shows Up, Rockets Lose Anyway
Jeremy Lin reminds me of an NFL quarterback. He probably didn't deserve the mounds of praise heaped on him during his transcendant run last year in New York and he hasn't deserved the beating he's taken on message boards and radio call in shows during his struggles in Houston. He didn't get signed t ... More >>
Blogs
December 10, 2012
Rockets' Ups and Downs Continue Despite Coach's Return
Check out pics from Saturday's close game against the Mavs in our slideshow. Kevin McHale was emotional at times when he met with the media upon his return to the team on Saturday night after an extended absence due to the illness and tragic death of his daughter. He kept in touch with the players ... More >>
Blogs
December 6, 2012
Texans and Rockets Players Help Launch Crazy Golf Complex, TopGolf
Years ago, I was playing a gig at a sports bar way out on the southwest side of town. The bar was surrounded by a massive ring of softball fields used by adult teams, mostly made up of corporate teams and the like. There was a strange, green glow that came up off the fields as grown men strode in we ... More >>
Blogs
November 29, 2012
Houston's Bearded, Bald, Vegan, Hipster Athletes Getting National Attention
It ain't easy being a Houston athlete. Despite being the fourth largest city in America, we haven't exactly had a tradition of winning sports teams. The Rockets made big runs in the early and mid '80s before breaking through and winning back-to-back titles in the early '90s. Still, they haven't been ... More >>
Blogs
November 28, 2012
Rockets Beat Raptors, Head to Minnesota for Funeral Then OKC for Reunion
The Rockets won one for their coach Tuesday night with a 117-101 victory at home over the Toronto Raptors, but they also climbed back to .500 and continued to demonstrate a cohesiveness born over the past couple weeks, particularly since Coach Kevin McHale left to tend to his ill daughter, Sasha, wh ... More >>
Blogs
November 13, 2012
Airsanity: Lin and the Rockets Struggle with More Than Airballs
I once interviewed MLB writer and former Astro social media maven Alyson Footer for a story about sports radio and she gave me a fantastic quote about the media in general. "The news cycle used to be 24 hours and now it's 24 seconds," she told me. The impact that has on sports coverage means that on ... More >>
Blogs
November 2, 2012
Football! This Weekend's Best Bets, Helping NBA Stars With Their Finances
To exactly nobody's surprise, the Rockets and James Harden agreed on Wednesday afternoon to a five year, $80 million contract extension, making Harden the first maximum contract player that Daryl Morey has inked to a deal in his tenure as Rockets general manager, and sending a clear message that Har ... More >>
Blogs
November 1, 2012
Beardsanity: Rockets Stars Inspire in Win, Team Still Has Issues (with Crazy Video)
So, this James Harden kid is pretty good. He torched the Detroit Pistons for 37 points, 12 assists (a career high), six rebounds and four steals on opening night and it appears he is everything advertised and more. No doubt he isn't going to go off for that kind of game every night, but he has insta ... More >>
Blogs
October 30, 2012
James Harden Is A Houston Rocket: So, Now What?
I haven't used a Sopranos analogy in a long time, and frankly, since the series has been defunct for more than five years, I have no idea how much longer the Relevancy Police are going to allow me to do so, so if I may: Remember in the first half of Season 6 of The Sopranos, when Tony got shot in t ... More >>
Blogs
October 30, 2012
The Young Ones: Rockets Season Will Be Infused With, Complicated By Youth
Back in the late '90s, when the Rockets had real championship aspirations, the team was consistently one of the oldest in the NBA. They routinely filled the end of the roster with guys like Charles Jones, who Rockets TV play-by-play man Bill Worrell affectionately called "Old Man River." By contrast ... More >>
Blogs
June 12, 2012
NBA Finals: Series Prediction and a Few Prop Bets
Finally, it's here! If you had allowed David Stern to sit in a room with all 16 playoff teams on the wall by conference, and allow him to pick his dream matchup for the NBA Finals, it's without a doubt the Miami-Oklahoma City matchup we're getting here. LeBron versus Durant, big market versus small ... More >>
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