April 18, 2025 • 9 mins
With the final Play-in games set to tip-off tonight with the Hawks taking on the Heat for the East and the Mavs taking on the Grizzlies for the West, the winner of tonight's games roll into the NBA 2025 playoffs as the 8th seed. With the Rockets anticipating their Game 1 tip-off against the Golden State Warriors Sunday evening, Sean and Chris take a moment and revisit just how long it's been since the Rockets have won a playoff game at the Toyota Center and what shocking events took place between then and now in reference to the Rockets playoff tenure over the recent years.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
War, Sean Salisbury, get in, strap in and write in.
Here's some other stuff, just to put it into concept.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
How long it has been since the Rockets won a
playoff game at Toti Center, Because remember twenty twenty they
made the playffs its last time they made the playoffs.
We played in stupid bubble out there in Florida. I'm
glad they were. They found a way to do it
amidst COVID and all that stuff. But crazy times. But
the number one movie in the country was Avengers End Game.
I mean that's been that feels like that's been forever, right.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
I feel like we've had like Marvel and Avengers, like
eight thousand of them since then. It's like every fifteen
minutes there's a new Marvel Avengers type movie.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
How many fanos memes have you seen on the internet
since then? Here's some other historical things. Prince Harry and
Megan Markle had just had their first child.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
Had they been had they been kicked out of the royalty.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
Yet they had not yet? Yeah.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
President Trump awarded Tiger Woods the Presidential Medical Freedom on
this day.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
I remember seeing the press conference vividly and Tiger standing.
Has it been that long? Since he gave it to him. Yes, guy,
I feel like, honestly like that was two years ago,
but it seems like every time I turned around, Tiger's standing.
I guess the newest one is these dayton A trump right,
I mean the dayton So yeah, I cannot believe that's
been six years.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
Here here, here's where it's really going to start to
feel dated. On that day, the last time the Rockets
won a home playoff game of Toyta Center. The Astros
beat the Royals that day six to four, led by
Garrett Cole on the mound, George Springer and Carlos Korea
hit home runs, and Roberto Sooner got the save. Okay,
that's love.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
I remember all the stuff that went into that bringing
was that you bring it? No Sooner here, right, Wasn't
that part of it? I mean the whole thing he.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
Had in the array of zero point five?
Speaker 3 (01:45):
Right? Right? Oh my good? So the Royals and Springer
real quick sidebar to throw in. Do you know who
the league leaders and hits are? The top four?
Speaker 1 (01:56):
No? Oh, got it?
Speaker 3 (01:58):
They all form Asters, Al two, ve Bregman, and Springer.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
Can you imagine them all on one team? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (02:06):
Yeah, I can still somebody who might sent me that yesterday.
I'm like, I'm thinking, well, why this, And I start
to look at the names of the face. I'm like,
you have got It's like it's like Tucker with twenty
or something. And it gets to you know, the next
one's out two v with like nineteen and then and
You're like, you got to be kidding me. We were
(02:26):
sitting here staring at this and these cats at least
either it was the month of the scene, but the
first four names it was either the month. I didn't
even look at the whole catch. I'm like, oh, great,
people are gonna love this one even worse than Kyle
Tucker and Bregman being the players of the week in
Major League Baseball. Uh what was it last week? Yeah?
So go ahead, continue with.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
The things you get. You just go. Man, if they
were all on the same team, that'd be.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
Oh, an all Star team. No, they actually had him here,
all four of them. Again, we're running there.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
Last time the Rockets won a home playoff game Ofatoya
to center. What was happening, uh, Sean. The Texans were
just going through their rookie mini camp. Their first draft
picks had just gotten into town. First rounder Titus Howard
was sitting in the practice field for the first.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
Time and still still doesn't know his position.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
Right, They were trying to figure out where they were
gonna plug him in. Second rounder Lonnie Johnson Junior had
just gotten here, and man, tell you what heay, Coach
Bill O'Brien, we were ready to see what Deshaun Watson
was going to do in his third season in the NFL.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
Good gracious, Now think about that. We got one guy
who's not only gone to the team's two hundred and
thirty million and may not see the field again at
least this year. Who else O'Brien twenty nineteen and Titus Howard,
Like you said, we've were still looking six years later
of what position he is going to play? Interior? I
mean he's been everywhere. So yeah. And then Deshaun Watson
(03:46):
in his third year in the league, right man, we
were so optimistic. Again, Well, you think a few things
have happened on and off the field with him since then? Yeah,
talking about a guy who crow barred some stuff in
in six years. Right. Uh.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
Kyler Murray had just went as the numbernumber one pick
in the NFL draft.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
Right the Josh Rosen experiment didn't work out, and now
he's in Arizona and here we are, and since then
we've wondered if he understood the playbook and never took
it with him or was studying. And now he's worth
about what two hundred million bucks or something, So you go.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
Also, Tiger Woods had just won the Masters.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
Which of all those might be the most shocking of
them all. Yeah, shocking of them all. Matter of fact,
the last time a major I mean at the Masters,
but obviously Deshambo and Rory at the US Open last year.
But think about all the I mean, the movement you
had at that termed everybody was tuned in to watch, right, Yeah,
now this past weekend because it was McElroy, because it
(04:37):
was lived, because it was Deshambo, and we're waiting for
mcloy to lose his mind and then gain it back,
which he did. The ratings were through the roof. And
the last time the ratings were probably that high, I
bet or when Tiger Woods one in twenty nineteen. Yeah,
I'll bet you so. Man alive, dude, you're a I mean,
I'm old enough, how it is, and you keep bringing that.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
A few more here, this is the last time the
Rockets won a home playoff game at of Center, MA six,
twenty nineteen sewn. There were some things that had not
happened yet. Deshaun Watson had not had any inappropriate massages yet.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
Well, it's at least to our knowledge.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
The Saints had just been robbed by the NOLA no
call against the Rams in the NFC Championship game. Some
a young man, a freshman at Duke named Zion Williamson
had just busted out his shoe against North Carolina. Remember that, Oh,
I do completely other things that had not happened yet.
Joe Burrow had not yet won a Heisman at LSU.
They had not even want to.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
He had no idea just how good they were.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
To know how good.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
Yeah, Joe Burrow was just a guy, right right, coming
out in twenty eighteen into nineteen, just a guy.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
We were still not aware of the Astro sign stealing scandal.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
That's right, even though I was seventeen. We had it, hadn't.
It hadn't come out public about the result.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
Kobe was still alive, Lebron had not yet won a
title for the Lakers.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
They were still wondering the host can he get us
the glory.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
He still hasn't. Oh, it was okay, And that's.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
The last one. Covid hadn't happened yet. We didn't even
know wearing masks everywhere. It wasn't even a thing yet.
Speaker 3 (06:09):
Do you remember when I'll tell you when the first
I had started to think about it was It wasn't
that the year the Miamis. Weren't we in South Beach
that year? Was that the Miami Super Bowl? That was
in nineteen And I can remember I started to get like,
and I'm not feeling very you know, you just start
to work, and then all of a sudden, the talk.
It was a little the fall of it, I mean,
the late fall of eighteen, but ninth started ramp up,
(06:30):
and then like February and then March. You're like, what
you thought? It was a couple of days, right, So
oh my, now, now that dude, that is a you
think about that from the tiger not went into the
gust after all that happened to him and Covid, And
like you said, we hadn't seen the greatest offensive season,
one of the greatest seasons we've ever seen in college
(06:50):
football with that group. We had no idea And now
Burrows highly paid, Chase is the highest paid receiver in
the league, was pretty good in Stingley's the highest paid corner. Yeah,
and they were all in there. They were all playing
at the time. Yeah. Crazy.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
And so just to close it out again, this is
what we're hoping that the Rockets will getting home playoff
win this Sunday against Toyota Center in Toyota Center against
the Warriors. But the last time they won May six,
twenty nineteen, here was your starting five for the Rockets.
It was James Harden, the leader, Eric Gordon, Chris Paul,
click Capella, and PJ.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
Tucker. None of those guys on the team anymore.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
Hence why when people say, well, did they have a
strong hold over you, No, we have no idea because
we weren't on this team. None of us were. It
has nothing to do with what they did and what
we'll do. And I would say a little bit different
depth On the offense, it was James and everybody else,
you know, and now it's different. So yeah, that's the
things that that's the starting five.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
Yeah, and your bench was Nnay, Austin Rivers, Gerald Green,
and Emon Shempert.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
I guess how many of those guys are here zero.
That's exactly the Warriors, by the way, the coach was
it was Mike d'antels, exactly right.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
The Warriors, of the other hand, had uh the only
three guys that are still around Steph Curry, Draymond Green
and Kevon Looney. Everybody else is different, including that this
guy Kevin Durant who dropped thirty four points that night.
Speaker 3 (08:10):
Right, and they also and the general manager is different too,
Bob Myers. Right, he was there and it wasn't there,
so that at the time, right, that is a that's
a hell of a list. It does age you a
little bit. But when you start to think about it,
because if I said, hey, when did Tiger Tiger get
that Medal of Honor right or Medal of freedom? Is
that what it was?
Speaker 1 (08:28):
Metal freedom?
Speaker 3 (08:29):
Right? You would have I guarantee we would have said, oh, well,
twenty twenty two, yeah, twenty nineteen. That's a lot can happen.
And you think about it. They had no idea when
they woke up the Burrow was going to be Joe cool, right.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
Yeah, it's just funny, funny to think about it.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
I'm just Jones now. We don't want to now let's
not be having you sit in the same chair in
me and you that in twenty thirty one, we're having
the same conversation between the six years that the last
time they went home.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
Oh yeah, we go, we go guys. At the time,
Jalen Green was just a guy.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
Now here's the three time NBA alls are and led
to Rockets to two titles.
Speaker 3 (09:02):
Now do twenty nineteen what Jalen Green was doing?
Speaker 1 (09:06):
Right?
Speaker 3 (09:06):
Oh? Yeah, he was what's the third year in the
league now?
Speaker 1 (09:08):
Right?
Speaker 3 (09:08):
Yeah, this third year in league. So we're gonna say
we were going to say he was dominating his his
his junior high basketball team.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
He was playing freshman on varsity average twenty right, seventh
grade or something.
Speaker 3 (09:21):
Right, Hey, bring marbles to school. We're going to play marbles. Right. Yeah,
it's a little perspective. But hopefully it's not six years
between the next one. I don't think it will be.
And hopefully they get out fast in this series. A
little perspective stuff.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
Seven days from now, what will we be saying about
what the Texans did in the first round of the draft.
We'll touch a little bit on that. Come out next round.
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War, Sean Salisbury, get in, strap in and write in.
Here's some other stuff, just to put it into concept.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
How long it has been since the Rockets won a
playoff game at Toti Center, Because remember twenty twenty they
made the playffs its last time they made the playoffs.
We played in stupid bubble out there in Florida. I'm
glad they were. They found a way to do it
amidst COVID and all that stuff. But crazy times. But
the number one movie in the country was Avengers End Game.
I mean that's been that feels like that's been forever, right.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
I feel like we've had like Marvel and Avengers, like
eight thousand of them since then. It's like every fifteen
minutes there's a new Marvel Avengers type movie.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
How many fanos memes have you seen on the internet
since then? Here's some other historical things. Prince Harry and
Megan Markle had just had their first child.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
Had they been had they been kicked out of the royalty.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
Yet they had not yet? Yeah.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
President Trump awarded Tiger Woods the Presidential Medical Freedom on
this day.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
I remember seeing the press conference vividly and Tiger standing.
Has it been that long? Since he gave it to him. Yes, guy,
I feel like, honestly like that was two years ago,
but it seems like every time I turned around, Tiger's standing.
I guess the newest one is these dayton A trump right,
I mean the dayton So yeah, I cannot believe that's
been six years.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
Here here, here's where it's really going to start to
feel dated. On that day, the last time the Rockets
won a home playoff game of Toyta Center. The Astros
beat the Royals that day six to four, led by
Garrett Cole on the mound, George Springer and Carlos Korea
hit home runs, and Roberto Sooner got the save. Okay,
that's love.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
I remember all the stuff that went into that bringing
was that you bring it? No Sooner here, right, Wasn't
that part of it? I mean the whole thing he.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
Had in the array of zero point five?
Speaker 3 (01:45):
Right? Right? Oh my good? So the Royals and Springer
real quick sidebar to throw in. Do you know who
the league leaders and hits are? The top four?
Speaker 1 (01:56):
No? Oh, got it?
Speaker 3 (01:58):
They all form Asters, Al two, ve Bregman, and Springer.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
Can you imagine them all on one team? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (02:06):
Yeah, I can still somebody who might sent me that yesterday.
I'm like, I'm thinking, well, why this, And I start
to look at the names of the face. I'm like,
you have got It's like it's like Tucker with twenty
or something. And it gets to you know, the next
one's out two v with like nineteen and then and
You're like, you got to be kidding me. We were
(02:26):
sitting here staring at this and these cats at least
either it was the month of the scene, but the
first four names it was either the month. I didn't
even look at the whole catch. I'm like, oh, great,
people are gonna love this one even worse than Kyle
Tucker and Bregman being the players of the week in
Major League Baseball. Uh what was it last week? Yeah?
So go ahead, continue with.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
The things you get. You just go. Man, if they
were all on the same team, that'd be.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
Oh, an all Star team. No, they actually had him here,
all four of them. Again, we're running there.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
Last time the Rockets won a home playoff game Ofatoya
to center. What was happening, uh, Sean. The Texans were
just going through their rookie mini camp. Their first draft
picks had just gotten into town. First rounder Titus Howard
was sitting in the practice field for the first.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
Time and still still doesn't know his position.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
Right, They were trying to figure out where they were
gonna plug him in. Second rounder Lonnie Johnson Junior had
just gotten here, and man, tell you what heay, Coach
Bill O'Brien, we were ready to see what Deshaun Watson
was going to do in his third season in the NFL.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
Good gracious, Now think about that. We got one guy
who's not only gone to the team's two hundred and
thirty million and may not see the field again at
least this year. Who else O'Brien twenty nineteen and Titus Howard,
Like you said, we've were still looking six years later
of what position he is going to play? Interior? I
mean he's been everywhere. So yeah. And then Deshaun Watson
(03:46):
in his third year in the league, right man, we
were so optimistic. Again, Well, you think a few things
have happened on and off the field with him since then? Yeah,
talking about a guy who crow barred some stuff in
in six years. Right. Uh.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
Kyler Murray had just went as the numbernumber one pick
in the NFL draft.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
Right the Josh Rosen experiment didn't work out, and now
he's in Arizona and here we are, and since then
we've wondered if he understood the playbook and never took
it with him or was studying. And now he's worth
about what two hundred million bucks or something, So you go.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
Also, Tiger Woods had just won the Masters.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
Which of all those might be the most shocking of
them all. Yeah, shocking of them all. Matter of fact,
the last time a major I mean at the Masters,
but obviously Deshambo and Rory at the US Open last year.
But think about all the I mean, the movement you
had at that termed everybody was tuned in to watch, right, Yeah,
now this past weekend because it was McElroy, because it
(04:37):
was lived, because it was Deshambo, and we're waiting for
mcloy to lose his mind and then gain it back,
which he did. The ratings were through the roof. And
the last time the ratings were probably that high, I
bet or when Tiger Woods one in twenty nineteen. Yeah,
I'll bet you so. Man alive, dude, you're a I mean,
I'm old enough, how it is, and you keep bringing that.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
A few more here, this is the last time the
Rockets won a home playoff game at of Center, MA six,
twenty nineteen sewn. There were some things that had not
happened yet. Deshaun Watson had not had any inappropriate massages yet.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
Well, it's at least to our knowledge.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
The Saints had just been robbed by the NOLA no
call against the Rams in the NFC Championship game. Some
a young man, a freshman at Duke named Zion Williamson
had just busted out his shoe against North Carolina. Remember that, Oh,
I do completely other things that had not happened yet.
Joe Burrow had not yet won a Heisman at LSU.
They had not even want to.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
He had no idea just how good they were.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
To know how good.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
Yeah, Joe Burrow was just a guy, right right, coming
out in twenty eighteen into nineteen, just a guy.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
We were still not aware of the Astro sign stealing scandal.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
That's right, even though I was seventeen. We had it, hadn't.
It hadn't come out public about the result.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
Kobe was still alive, Lebron had not yet won a
title for the Lakers.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
They were still wondering the host can he get us
the glory.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
He still hasn't. Oh, it was okay, And that's.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
The last one. Covid hadn't happened yet. We didn't even
know wearing masks everywhere. It wasn't even a thing yet.
Speaker 3 (06:09):
Do you remember when I'll tell you when the first
I had started to think about it was It wasn't
that the year the Miamis. Weren't we in South Beach
that year? Was that the Miami Super Bowl? That was
in nineteen And I can remember I started to get like,
and I'm not feeling very you know, you just start
to work, and then all of a sudden, the talk.
It was a little the fall of it, I mean,
the late fall of eighteen, but ninth started ramp up,
(06:30):
and then like February and then March. You're like, what
you thought? It was a couple of days, right, So
oh my, now, now that dude, that is a you
think about that from the tiger not went into the
gust after all that happened to him and Covid, And
like you said, we hadn't seen the greatest offensive season,
one of the greatest seasons we've ever seen in college
(06:50):
football with that group. We had no idea And now
Burrows highly paid, Chase is the highest paid receiver in
the league, was pretty good in Stingley's the highest paid corner. Yeah,
and they were all in there. They were all playing
at the time. Yeah. Crazy.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
And so just to close it out again, this is
what we're hoping that the Rockets will getting home playoff
win this Sunday against Toyota Center in Toyota Center against
the Warriors. But the last time they won May six,
twenty nineteen, here was your starting five for the Rockets.
It was James Harden, the leader, Eric Gordon, Chris Paul,
click Capella, and PJ.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
Tucker. None of those guys on the team anymore.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
Hence why when people say, well, did they have a
strong hold over you, No, we have no idea because
we weren't on this team. None of us were. It
has nothing to do with what they did and what
we'll do. And I would say a little bit different
depth On the offense, it was James and everybody else,
you know, and now it's different. So yeah, that's the
things that that's the starting five.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
Yeah, and your bench was Nnay, Austin Rivers, Gerald Green,
and Emon Shempert.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
I guess how many of those guys are here zero.
That's exactly the Warriors, by the way, the coach was
it was Mike d'antels, exactly right.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
The Warriors, of the other hand, had uh the only
three guys that are still around Steph Curry, Draymond Green
and Kevon Looney. Everybody else is different, including that this
guy Kevin Durant who dropped thirty four points that night.
Speaker 3 (08:10):
Right, and they also and the general manager is different too,
Bob Myers. Right, he was there and it wasn't there,
so that at the time, right, that is a that's
a hell of a list. It does age you a
little bit. But when you start to think about it,
because if I said, hey, when did Tiger Tiger get
that Medal of Honor right or Medal of freedom? Is
that what it was?
Speaker 1 (08:28):
Metal freedom?
Speaker 3 (08:29):
Right? You would have I guarantee we would have said, oh, well,
twenty twenty two, yeah, twenty nineteen. That's a lot can happen.
And you think about it. They had no idea when
they woke up the Burrow was going to be Joe cool, right.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
Yeah, it's just funny, funny to think about it.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
I'm just Jones now. We don't want to now let's
not be having you sit in the same chair in
me and you that in twenty thirty one, we're having
the same conversation between the six years that the last
time they went home.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
Oh yeah, we go, we go guys. At the time,
Jalen Green was just a guy.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
Now here's the three time NBA alls are and led
to Rockets to two titles.
Speaker 3 (09:02):
Now do twenty nineteen what Jalen Green was doing?
Speaker 1 (09:06):
Right?
Speaker 3 (09:06):
Oh? Yeah, he was what's the third year in the
league now?
Speaker 1 (09:08):
Right?
Speaker 3 (09:08):
Yeah, this third year in league. So we're gonna say
we were going to say he was dominating his his
his junior high basketball team.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
He was playing freshman on varsity average twenty right, seventh
grade or something.
Speaker 3 (09:21):
Right, Hey, bring marbles to school. We're going to play marbles. Right. Yeah,
it's a little perspective. But hopefully it's not six years
between the next one. I don't think it will be.
And hopefully they get out fast in this series. A
little perspective stuff.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
Seven days from now, what will we be saying about
what the Texans did in the first round of the draft.
We'll touch a little bit on that. Come out next round.
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