Don thanks for sharing this. A thread should be started and pinned to the top (hell maybe even this thread) that has videos of great Rocket playoff games where Clutchfans members can access them at any time.
Dude said no one thought the Rockets would have a chance to repeat @ the 2 min mark. He is wrong. There was only one person who picked the Rox to repeat. Anybody remember? That person is Chris Webber. He picked the Rox on national TV to win it all.
I can't believe that this just occurred to me. I graduated high school and moved to Houston in 1994 until I moved to Austin in 1996 midway through the season. If Houston wants another championship, someone in this forum should offer me a high paying job that I just can't refuse in Houston.
The Rockets back then were a victim of the media. Since most of the media is from New York, they were angry the Rockets won. Think about it today. There are bad teams in the league but none of them get the press that the Knicks get. Also any sliver of hope, like Jeremy Lin's streak, gets blown out the water. Yao Ming didn't all the many covers of magazines his first few weeks. Thank goodness Barkley made that dumb donkey bet. That put lots of attention on the Rockets. Charles Oakley gets so much press cause he was a tough enforcer but nobody talks about how tough Otis Thorpe was facing him and Barkley and Karl Malone. So the non believers statement was justification for us true Rockets fans
Y'all are missing the reference. http://bbs.clutchfans.net/index.php...-form-a-line-to-submit-your-apologies.280373/ Just a joke.
Today people would say something like, "This is for all you haters." & then throw up two middle fingers. That's basically what Rudy T did there, but he was a bit more classy about it, but like you said, it's clearly a directive. Hate me? Hate on this, biatch! Rudy T invented it no matter how many times and how many ways people say it. (Don't correct me if I'm wrong, what would be the stupid point of that?) To all you mother ****ers out there that thought we'd fail, how do you like me now? See? It's the same thing. Rudy invented it.
I think you're missing the point in your reference. Your epic thread really should have been called "Non-Believers Please Form A Line To Submit Your Apologies". Rudy is our leader, we follow his example. Not the other way around. If you coach a championship, we'd repeat whatever you said because it worked.
You can relive some of these moments with clips of the Gene Peterson - Jim Foley radio broadcast crew at http://www.nba.com/rockets/news/Tribute_to_Peterson_and_Foley-267614-34.html I was lucky enough to be alive for these games. I remember high school graduation was taking place during Game 6 against Phoenix in '95 and one of the dads was giving hand gestures to keep some of us up to date on how the Rockets were doing.
Quick story. Met him at Pluckers in Austin. I never dropped anything and when he walked in I started shaking and dropped about 6 drinks all over the floor. I wasn't proud of it, but I hope he would take it as a compliment that I was in such awe.
I've always held out hope that one of the players on those two teams would one day coach the Rockets back to championship greatness. Guys like Hakeem, Elie, or Bullard who knew how to play the game and how to exploit team strengths and overcome weaknesses. I wonder if there was ever interest on either side.
Great thread! I took my oldest son to Game 5 in San Antonio (I was stationed there). It was incredible and we were surrounded by Spurs fans. Olajuwon was simply poetry in motion on the court and Cassell was the gritty competitor we all loved. My son became a life long fan after that game. https://www.basketball-reference.com/boxscores/199505300SAS.html
That was real game of basketball for man! It was A TEAM OF NO QUITER'S. IT WAS A TEAM OF CHAMPIONS! Sadly it was 1/4 century ago !
Saw him at Black Walnut Cafe in Austin. Thanked him for Clutch City and you can tell he was genuinely proud of it. We will never let the non believers win
I was visiting my grandparents in southeast asia for summer break. I woke up early to watch the games because of the time difference. Greatest summer ever! I came home to take a road trip to orlando wearing multiple Rockets championship tshirts. Greatest feeling ever. Hoping this years squad reignite those tingles.
