Slam Magazine Profiles Former Rockets Star Rafer Alston

Definitely brick because there's a chance for the offensive rebound.

 

Hmm... no mention of the Chris Paul incident/war.

 

Imagine Alston under d'antonis offense. I think he had the passing and court vision to be pretty good in his system.

 

Imagine skip with the 02 kings. Better handles than jwill.

 

You guys are delusional. Apparently you all have selective nostalgia about Skip to my Brick. Judging by the comments in this thread I'm not sure you guys remember how terrible that era was for the Rockets at the PG position.

Rafer shot us out of quite a lot of games. His tear drop made me want to gouge my eyeballs out. The day he was traded for Lowry and Aaron Brooks was given the reigns to the team was one of the happiest days of my Rockets fandom. Easily the worst rotational PG the rockets have had in the last 10 years not named Jeremy Lin.

 

I don't remember a Rockets Star named Rafer Alston.

 

Reefer was turrible.

 

One time the Rockets were playing the Kings in 2006 or 2007 and Rafer shot this wide open 3. So Rafer shoots the 3 and Shareef Abdur-Rahim, of the Kings at the time, was in the paint boxing out one of our players. Shareef has his man boxed out and he's ready for the rebound. Well, he's waiting around and the shot comes down. Rafer bricked that wide open 3 so bad that he airballed it and hit Shareef Abdur-Rahim straight on the top of the head.

Probably one of the funnier things I've seen while watching basketball. When that ball hit him in the head Abdur-Rahim had a "wtf just happened" look on his face that was golden.

 

Next time when someone brings Lin to a thread that has nothing to do with him, don't blame the Lin fans.

 

Maybe it would save time to just make a list of Rockets Clutchfans does NOT hate.

Parsons
Troy Daniels
Shane Battier
Yao
JVG

Did I leave anyone out? I'll let you 99er's cover the previous century.

 

That's all you came up with? Here are some more names since our championship days:

- Deke
- Carl Landry
- Kyle Lowry
- Goran Dragic
- Chuck Hayes
- Cuttino Mobley
- Jim Jackson
- Patrick Beverley
- Ron Artest
- Mario Elie
- Robert Horry
- Sam Cassell
- Clyde Drexler
- Kevin Willis
- Sam Mack

 

Don't forget:

Bob Sura
Von Wafer
Aaron Brooks
Courtney Lee
Eddie Johnson
Bostjan Nachbar

 

Boojie and AB are debatable, but the rest I can agree on.

 

In terms of handles, Rafer was easily one of the best. If you surveyed guys around the league, even they would feel most comfortable with Rafer and a few select PGs handling the ball.

Rafer was not a good shooter, but he was streaky.

What I liked most about him was that he ran the offense, played defense and SHOWED UP to every game.

He knew his role and accepted it, and I don't think he really wanted to shoot as much as he did. It just came in the offense, minus that tear drop.

And yes, at this point, I would take a cold-shooting Rafer over Lin. I wouldn't worry about something as small as getting the ball up the court and into your closer's hand as I do now.

 

1. Sura was so much tougher than Lin. Sura was like Beverley in terms of toughness and level of competitiveness.
2. Sura does not have the same fan base as Lin. There was no one to magnify his every good move and defend till death all his mistakes.

If Lin did not have Linsanity or the Lin crazies, I am sure he would be remembered entirely differently from our current Lin.

 

This will always be my favorite memory of Skip. Dude was a warrior who would not back down from anyone. I remember him almost getting into a fight with CP3 in New Orleans because he dove on the floor challenging that stupid little roll the ball up trick that he would do.

 

This about sums it up.

 

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