Mr teX
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First, regarding the rockets they have had more success and the nba is a different beast because of the lack of parity. In the nfl you can turn your team around quicker and despite that the rockets have had more success still.
Second, it’s not just about the success over past year, it’s also about team outlook going forward. Even with GS in the nba I’d give the rockets a better chance at winning a title this year than the Texans who are not even going to make the playoffs.
Look at the Astros....they hadn’t had a whole lot of success in ast seasons either but there was optimism surrounding them because of future outlook.
Even though the Texans were losing every other game with Watson there was tons of optimism because we finally had good play at the hardest position in sports to fill. Not only that but even in the losses against premiere teams and qbs he went toe to toe with them and one or two plays in our favor at the end changes the results.
I don’t really get your point here. Yeah we were scoring a lot of points. We were getting great qb play.
The optimism with the Astros didn't start back in 2012 in the midst of thier 3 100 loss seasons when the team was tanking....it started when they surprised in 2015 & made the playoffs. Yet and still they faltered in 2016 before putting it all together this year. Regardless, the level of optimism was that much higher than it was back in 2005 when we went to our 1st WS..why? b/c the Astros had the best offense in baseball......imo of course.
So my point is fans want to see scoring and they tend to judge what their teams are, how good a team is or will/can be by what their offense is doing...even though there could be obvious holes elsewhere on the team that more often than not will prevent that team from putting it together. Was listening to sean jones on 790 the other day & he kind of reinforced my point about this. Fans tend to just lock in on offense & get carried away with predictions.
As far as the Rockets... yeah technically you're right they have had more success than the Texans...barely. 1 deep playoff run the entire time the Texans have been in existence under this regime. That's great and all, but the reality is sports is a zero sum game and a "better chance at winning" doesn't really equivocate to anything if you don't actually......... win when it matters most.... or at least knock on the door hard a couple times. & As far as that goes the Rockets and Texans are pretty much in the same boat as neither has really come close to breaking through b/c the same flaws keep presenting themselves on both teams;