Rockets back to old ways — lose badly to Memphis
Saturday, December 3rd, 2005
by John
Yao goes up to throw down a dunk Saturday night in Houston on his way to scoring 29 points, but the Rockets were blown out by Memphis most of the game, losing 90-75 to the Grizzlies. For more photos from the game, click here.
by John
SATURDAY, 12/03/05 – I attended my first Rockets game of the season on Saturday night. I rarely use the elevator at Toyota Center to get to the upper level where I usually sit because the elevator can get a little cramped. But tonight I was in between the two escalators I normally take to get to the upper level, and the elevator was right there with the doors open, so I jumped on.
Wouldn’t you know it, on the elevator’s first stop, Rockets’ owner Leslie Alexander got on, along with a woman who I believe is his wife. I figured when I got off, I would say hello or something. When my stop came, Leslie got off the elevator temporarily to make room so the people in the back of the elevator like me could get off.
After I passed through the elevator doors, I said hello to him for just a second, and he and his wife seemed really nice. But a couple of minutes later, I was KICKING myself because I thought MAYBE I could have scored some better seats by telling him real fast, “Hi Leslie, I’m the guy who writes for the Yao Ming Fan Club site, and does it for free. My seats are in the upper deck. Is there a chance I might be able to sit close to where you’re seats are tonight?” Of course, I would do it tongue-in-cheek without any expectations of getting such a gift. But hey, it never hurts to ask, right? You never know: by some stroke of luck and a kind heart, maybe I could have gotten a great seat near the court – maybe even on the floor where he usually sits. After all, it turned out there were plenty of empty seats all around the arena tonight.
But after seeing the Rockets put on one of their worst performances WITH T-Mac this season, maybe it’s a good thing I didn’t ask for that favor and can hope for that same situation to occur again when the Rockets are playing better, because the way the Rockets played on Saturday night, I didn’t miss a thing sitting down low.
Yao goes up to throw down a dunk Saturday night in Houston on his way to scoring 29 points, but the Rockets were blown out by Memphis most of the game, losing 90-75 to the Grizzlies. For more photos from the game, click here. by John
SATURDAY, 12/03/05 – I attended my first Rockets game of the season on Saturday night. I rarely use the elevator at Toyota Center to get to the upper level where I usually sit because the elevator can get a little cramped. But tonight I was in between the two escalators I normally take to get to the upper level, and the elevator was right there with the doors open, so I jumped on.
Wouldn’t you know it, on the elevator’s first stop, Rockets’ owner Leslie Alexander got on, along with a woman who I believe is his wife. I figured when I got off, I would say hello or something. When my stop came, Leslie got off the elevator temporarily to make room so the people in the back of the elevator like me could get off.
After I passed through the elevator doors, I said hello to him for just a second, and he and his wife seemed really nice. But a couple of minutes later, I was KICKING myself because I thought MAYBE I could have scored some better seats by telling him real fast, “Hi Leslie, I’m the guy who writes for the Yao Ming Fan Club site, and does it for free. My seats are in the upper deck. Is there a chance I might be able to sit close to where you’re seats are tonight?” Of course, I would do it tongue-in-cheek without any expectations of getting such a gift. But hey, it never hurts to ask, right? You never know: by some stroke of luck and a kind heart, maybe I could have gotten a great seat near the court – maybe even on the floor where he usually sits. After all, it turned out there were plenty of empty seats all around the arena tonight.
But after seeing the Rockets put on one of their worst performances WITH T-Mac this season, maybe it’s a good thing I didn’t ask for that favor and can hope for that same situation to occur again when the Rockets are playing better, because the way the Rockets played on Saturday night, I didn’t miss a thing sitting down low.