Horry needs to get dogged right now. Wallace and Wallace are making him look more like the second coming of Will Smith than Big-Shot Bobby !
the guys makes some good points. horry did miss a lot of big shots too. but so did jordan. even the best players miss big shots. but the average players will never make them. he is one of the most clutch players of all time. he has like 5 or 6 rings....if he signs with us next year we might be able to get him a couple more before he retires.
This is why I can't stand sports writers. They create a frame of reality and then sit around bashing it. It's the sports writers who've said for years that Horry is some great clutch player. This one doesn't agree with that, but instead of stating that other writers are incorrect, he bashes Horry as though it's been Horry writing about himself all these years. It's like when a sports writer states that Team A is supposed to win or lose. When that doesn't happen, the writer states that the team either "played above its abilities" or "didn't live up to expectation". They never admit that it's actually neither. It's simply that the writer - who is nothing more than a fan who gets paid to state an opinion - got it wrong. Sports writers can't admit they're wrong because doing so would clearly show that they're no more expert than any of us. Likewise, they rarely want to shoot each other down for fear of having it done to them when they err. Therefore, it's always the player/team that failed or misreprented himself.
even if the guy was trying to just get his column noticed, he made a strong argument. i'd side with him after reading that.
I thinks he's got enough big moments to say he's up for a Big Shot. The whole idea is that he isn't a superstar (who you expect to hit clutch shots) but a fourth or fifth option that has consistently hit big shots and had big games in important games. His 191 playoff games are the fifth most in NBA history, and if he plays three against Detroit, he will trail only Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (237) and Scottie Pippen (208). He's now second only to the retiring Reggie Miller in playoff threes, and set the postseason single-game record for makes without a miss in a 7-for-7 stabbing of Utah in 1997. Among actives, he ranks in the postseason top 10 in threes, points, assists, rebounds and blocks -- the NBA's only such player. With Houston in the 1995 conference final against heavily favored San Antonio, he nailed a jumper with 6 seconds remaining to win Game 1 by a point, setting the tone for that series. Set an NBA Finals record for most steals in a game with 7 against the Orlando Magic in Game 2 of the 1995 NBA Finals and in that four-game sweep, he averaged 17.8 points, 10 rebounds and a Finals record-setting 46.8 minutes per game. In Game 3 of the NBA Finals against the Orlando Magic with time expiring and a score of 100-99 Houston lead, Horry hits a three-pointer to seal the win. They went on to sweep the Magic and win their 2nd Championship in a row. In Game 4 2000 against Indiana: The versatile 6-foot-10 forward had 17 points, 6 rebounds, 2 assists and 2 steals. When overtime started, it was Horry who sank a 15-foot baseline jumper to give the Lakers the lead they would never relinquish. Moments later, when O'Neal missed a short hook, Horry was there to grab the offensive rebound and slam it through. In Game 3 2001 against Philly: Rob scored 7 points in the last 47.1 seconds of the game against the 76ers to win game 3 of the Finals 96-91 taking the Lakers to a 2-1 lead in the series. He started with a 3-pointer then shot a pair of free throws with 21.3 seconds left and then another 2 free throws with 9.5 seconds remaining. With the Lakers in 2002, he hit a game-winning, series-ending 3-pointer against the Portland Trail Blazers in the first round. Against Sacramento that same year, his Lakers trailing in the last second of Game 4, Horry scooped up a loose ball and struck the game-winning jumper that devastated the Kings. 2005 - In Game 6 against Seattle, a game in which Duncan played relatively poorly until the end, Horry led the Spurs at halftime with 11 points. He ended up their second-leading scorer with 14. What really did in the Sonics in the back-and-forth screamer down the stretch was benchman Horry's 3-pointer inside the final two minutes. It created a four-point margin that was too much to overcome against an excellent defensive team. Against Phoenix in the clinching fifth game of the Western finals, he played a season-high 36 minutes, had 11 boards and seven points, In the Suns series, he hit 9 of 19 threes. And who can forget the tomahawk to start Game 7 against the Knicks? To me that served notice that the Rockets were going to win the title.
That's a really good post Hayestreet. I can't believe you remember all that. Horry has been a good playoff contributor. My problem with Bob isn't his playoff performances, its the rest of his career and I think the writer would have made a better argument from that angle. Let's not give Horry too much credit for his playoff appearances. This guy has been luck to play with every best big man during his career during their primes. He's extremely lucky.
One thing I have to defend, I don't care what you think of Danny Ainge, you NEVER throw a towel in your coach's face or show him up. You can't defend that.
Classic Horry right there, misses driving layup for umpteenth time in his career, doesn't even hit the rim, and then on the next play, with 1 second left in the third drills a 26 footer. We'll see what happens in the 4th. But some things never change.
Look at him tonight, Horry is a warrior. If we had him for our playoff run we might be in the Finals instead of San Antonio. OMG!!!!!!! Another HUGE one!!!!!!
