[inside the nba] Kenny/Chuck talking about the Rockets championship teams

While the inside out game plan may be similiar that's about it. D12 is nowhere near what Dream was on either end of the floor.
I do think Dwights supporting cast is far better than what we had the first championship and maybe the second.
Both the inside and perimeter game have to be effective to win. With our old Rockets team the constant was Hakeem and our perimeter game was inconsistent. It is the complete opposite in Orlandos case.

 

To be honest, I'm extremely tired of Howard even being mentioned in the same breath as Hakeem. Howard is nowhere near the player O was. Offensively it's a joke, defensively Hakeem played hard all the time. Howard could be great on the defensive side but takes games off. These two players being compared in greatness should never happen.

 

Count me also as someone who is tired of the D Howard/Hakeem comparisons.

Its like comparing Britney Spears to Marilyn Monroe.

 

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5 star thread.

I appreciate it for one

 

What made dream even better was if the double wasnt perfect, or he still scored.

 

I think if you put howard and a healthy yao back in 94, they would be behind zo and in front of deke. Dream,shaq,robinson,ewing,mourning,howard or yao,deke.

 

Just to show how many holes there are in the top 2 centers, zo's best years are better than howard and yao's.

 

Who in the hell does Howard go up against on a nightly basis? Dream went up against hall of famers on a consistent basis, David Robinson, Ewing, Malone played him at times, Kareem, the celtics whole front line, it was just ridiculous.

Tinman, great point actually on what Rashard Lewis "is supposed to be" Horry was better at everything when it counted. What a huge waste Lewis's career has become, if he was aggressive taking it to the hole and played some D, instead of only camping out at the 3pt line, he could be a heck of a player. Did he just cash it in or what? Definitely not worth the contract

Totally forgot to add Deke and Mourning, I'm sure I'm missing others, but point made

 

Dwight is a superstar in this league but he's not a superstar offensive player. Howard is 24 years old and though he's an incredible physical talent, his offensive skill level is probably less than Dream's level in college. Dream never reached the pinnacle of his offensive ability until he was 30 years old though so cut Dwight a little slack. Unfortunately for Dwight, he's not as talented as Dream nor does he play against the type of big man talent Dream played against so it's doubtful he's ever going to dominate on the offensive end the way Dream did. He will get better though, no doubt about that.

 

D12 is great but I don't think you can compare him to dream yet, like comet said, Dream's offense didn't fully develope until 30, so he still has some time, just wish he would stop practicing free throws without getting himself tired before he does it. You don't go to the free throw fresh, you go there when you get banged, beat up, tired, so yea he needs to change that up. Don't count the magic out yet, they only lost by 4 people. People act like they got blown out.

 

Oh man no doubt, when I was watching Inside the NBA I was about to sleep and all of the sudden they started talking about the rockets and Hakeem days, I turned the volume up and I started paying attention to the TV, you'll always miss those days.