Rocket playoff failures, McGrady and Scottie Pippen join forces

I blame him because he had plenty of chances and never got passed the second test. Sure, the regular season is tough, but he had lots of great teammates, two hall of famers, but never won a series. He had Sura, he had Barry, Mutumbo, Mike James, Yao.. what else did he need? Kobe? If he was the elite player that you think he was, he would have won with at least ONE team one year. He wasn't. He never made anyone better.

 

Kobe never really made anyone better, either. He just got bailed out by Fisher and elite bigs. With Shaq, Kobe wins 3 titles. Without Shaq? He never made it out of the first round until Gasol and Bynum showed up.

I get why its easy to hate on Pippen, but I don't understand all of the Tmac hate here tbh. Just move on and let it go.

 

Horry was putting on his best Mad Max impersonation there. Mad Max is a true legend and he made Horry better.

 

Yep, its too bad we traded him for fat ass.

 

Can we ban tinman from making threads?

 

I don't give a **** about either. I made this username when I was a kid.

 

Yeah, I don't question the thought process behind the move but damn, dude. We traded away two great players just to beat the Sonics for one year.

Horry ended up becoming one of the greatest killers and utility guys in the game, Cassell ended up becoming all-star for the T-Pups. I always think of what might have been had we kept those two and tried to retire them as Rockets. But, I smoke too much so its easy to reminisce.

 

Sure but how many SFs in history made the whole team around them that much better?

At least to advance a playoff round when some of his teammates were DeClerque, Gooden, Giricek and Armstrong.

If you think back, there were only 2 Rockets seasons when he was deemed 'really halfway healthy'.

And he had scoliosis which made his work out that much harder. His entire career.

Nevertheless he was a disappointment for sure, I would say, only a borderline Top 8 player in Rockets history.

But still you got to admit he had some great moments in the playoffs' first rounds and he only missed one game or one rebound to advance.

 

Do you want me to **** up their offense? Cool, done already. Make a pass that leads to an easy basket when easy baskets are at a premium? Done. Need me to space the floor with some outside shooting? Cool. I can slash for easy points if you can hit me while I'm slashing. Done. I don't like how their perimeter offense looks all smooth like, imma mess it up. Done. Olajuwon just missed an opportunity to block a shot, cool, i'll swat it.

Has anyone in the history of the league, ever switched from a college center to an NBA small forward? Yup. One guy did it.

 

Are you building yet another river for me to cry on? Tracy did not have a short career as a top level player. Tracy did have a short career as a second round playoff competitor. He had lots of teammates, but it was always the team's fault, right? Truly great players don't talk about that. They win and then question why the other guy couldn't do it.

 

No, I was quite happy when we finally beat the Sonics. I guess the series against the Jazz just took air out of my sails a bit.

But, I really wanted to face the Bulls in the finals. I thought we could have beaten them and Hakeem may have been older but he would have picked his game in that series because it would have been a career defining moment for him and he was ALWAYS good against the bulls.

I still think we would have beaten the Bulls.