<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">By now, if you've watched sports, news or weather in Houston, you've seen the Rockets' television commercial, the one with the Jeff Van Gundy voiceover pledging a team you will love and zooming in on Yao Ming's left eye, which apparently contains exhilarating basketball highlights. In a speech taken from a radio interview, Van Gundy basically says the Rockets owe us one and to "bet on us to come back." When I heard it, I found myself picturing the Rockets' marketing people high-fiving their way around Toyota Center's fourth floor upon hearing Van Gundy saying precisely the sort of thing they would have written in a script. It's perfect for a ticket come-on commercial. But I wonder if they caught the irony that the reason it works is because Van Gundy so rarely offers the company line. It works only because coming from him it does not sound like coachspeak or sales spiel because he has so often said the last thing they wanted to hear. Like or dislike what Van Gundy often says, agree or disagree, you know he means it. So now, all those times the bosses upstairs cringed has paid off. They can only hope he is as right this time as he was then.</div> Source
