For NBA Jam? Give me Clyde! Inchan, I have been meaning to join you for a game at an Austin bar. You still in North Austin?
They were considered the foundation of the next NBA dynasty and loved by the media, something that seems impossible for a Rockets team today. In the Western Conference Finals of the ‘85-‘86 season, the defending champion Showtime Lakers under Pat Riley were heavy favorites. We may have been thought of as the next dynasty, but our time wasn’t supposed to start then, not yet. After losing game 1 in LA, we swept the next 4, game 5 decided by Sampson’s The Shot. We would have won the series anyway had we lost that game, in my opinion, but it was an incredible moment. It’s been called The Greatest Team That Never Was. Sampson’s injury and drugs ended it far too soon. Dream was left “wandering the wilderness.” That is, until an assistant and former 5 time All Star, with a last name no one could spell, became the surprising coach after Don Chaney was fired. Rudy Tomjanovich, the greatest coach the Rockets have ever had, led us to The Promised Land.
Dream and clyde or dream and kenny smith. Yes he was older but that man could shoot the three ball... if he was in today's nba that guy would crap on Curry.
I started watching the Rockets when I was around 10 in 1992 so my personal pick is Hakeem and OT. Thorpe was such an underrated sidekick. I used to marvel at how he palmed that basketball in the post, swung it up and around his head a couple of times, and proceeded to beat the ball into the floor in his post up move.
You left off the 1981-82 season - Moses Malone , Elvin Hayes , Calvin Murphy & Bobby Joe. Cat and Stevie Franchise have no business on this list.
