What’s one of your Favorite “Back Against the Wall” Performances?

Not NBA but Collin Sexton in college at Alabama vs Minnesota. 3 on 5 and almost pulled it off. He put up 40 points in that game. That's crazy to think about.

Also he's a very slept on player in the NBA since he plays for Cleveland. The guy is averaging 19pts, 3rebs, 3ast a game and nobody knows about him.

 

I agree that an away game is a key criteria of back against the wall. Thx for Maxwell reminder.

I hate to say this, but Klay’s 19 point 4th Q, away Game 6 elimination game v OKC in 2016 saved their ass.

They were down 8 at start of 4th, and he hit 5 straight threes, including 3 to start the 4th, and the one to take the lead under 2 minutes to go.

oh, and just thought I’d add, Mailman doesn’t deliver on Sundays.

 

Game 6 vs clippers a couple years ago.

with harden on the bench and down , what, almost 20 or something, we rode Jsmoove and C Brewer to a comeback and sucked the life out of the clips..

**** was surreal.. lol

 

Entire 94-95 Rockets run from regular season until the Championship was amazing.

-Made playoffs as a 6th seed. 47-35 record
-Lost last 3 games of regular season
-Lost game 1 round 1 of Playoffs vs Jazz
-Lost first 2 games in the 2nd round vs Suns.
-Came back from 3-1 down vs Suns to win series. Game 7 was won by 1 point.
-Took down San Antonio in 6. Spurs finished with the league record best 62-20 season and had MVP David Robinson. They were heavy favorites. Rockets were +250 underdog.
-Swept the young and talented Magic who were on an incredible high from eliminating Jordan/Pippen Bulls and deep Pacers team filled with vets.
-We were underdogs in every series. The most improbable Championship run of all time save maybe the Mavs from 2010-2011.
-We’re the only team to have won an NBA championship as a 6th seed.

 

Good answer. Too many backs-to-the-wall performances that season to name just one.

 

Birth of the Heart of a Champion

 

McHale is closest thing to Rudy tomjanovich.

The 1995 nba finals game 1 was a must win game in Orlando. Kenny Smith hit seven three's and seventh made three pointer sent game into overtime.

Rockets needed every bucket because I'm sure Shaq would have took over in that finals series.

 

I think 96 against the sonics down 3-0. The Rockets lost the game but did they ever make a comeback and almost pulled off a tremendous upset. I really believe had Horry not fouled out in OT, the Rockets would have come back to win that series.

 

John Lucas III "backless stool" game against the Lakers was pretty cool.

http://bbs.clutchfans.net/index.php...-the-los-angeles-rockets-war-feelings.121660/

 

yes, thank you. it was one last "heart of a champion" moment. we weren't as good that year. the sonics had our number. we were down 20. but after 8 elimination game wins in a row the previous 2 years, you know people were thinking "can these guys be killed?" when we made the comeback. and yeah, i would've believed in us for the next 3 games if we pulled it off.

individually, hard to beat lebron's game 6 in terms of pressure on a person in terms of legacy. to have 45/15 and do most of that in only 3 quarters is crazy.

just because, i'm going to mention horry in game 5 against the pistons. tim duncan choking the game away in the 4th, game 6 would be in detroit, horry comes up with a ridiculous 21 points in the 4th and OT, including a huge dunk and the game-winning 3 when rasheed wallace inexplicably left the guy nicknamed "big shot bob" wide open for no apparent reason.

that's one thing largely missing from jordan's resume (for a good reason, but still missing). the bulls won so many series from in front that you had a raft of big games, but rarely had an elimination game. starting in '91, you basically only had orlando game 6 (loss) and pacers game 7 (win), right? or maybe they were down 3-1 to orlando. arguably the most back to the wall moment they had was down 0-2 to the knicks and jordan actually shot 3-18 in game 3 (though 16-17 from the line to make it respectable) but the bulls still won.

 

the refs in the 2002 wcf did admirably with their backs against the wall.

 

Danuel house versus celtics, the overtime game in early March.

The rockets struggled mightily and house stepped up with the offensive rebound putback dunk against Celtics, the harden steal and dunk on a fastbreak.

Not sure, I wanna say house got a double-double in points and rebound which has been rare ever since Capeala got traded!

 

You didn't say it had to be a game of consequence, so I'm going to go with this one.

 

LeBron against GSW after being 3-1 down. That was GOAT level

 

T-mac. Game of no significance, but you can't discount the 13 in 33.

 

94 Nuggets were down 2-0 and 3-0 in consecutive rounds only to win 3 straight in both series. That team does not get its due for how they almost came back from 3-0 against the Jazz and I believe they would’ve given the Rockets fits. 3-2 in 93-94 against us with 2 narrow losses.

Mutombo got a lot of leeway with walking, those elbows and fouls when blocking shots. Then PG wise they were equal, if not more lethal with Abdul-Rauf, big bench and Stith & Phonz who were strong fundamental players and solid defenders.

Anyway, Reggie Williams came up big to give them a 1st victory in both series! Game 3 vs Sonics - 30+ points with a hot 1st quarter. Then in Game 4 vs. Jazz hit the game winner. That takes balls and composure. For a player long forgotten by most, he sure as hell came through when it mattered.

 

Lebron against the pistons where he ran off like 25 straight points