Half way through the season, Delusion Train boarding

Probably not lol

 

PJ Tucker with 1993 rules

 

There is only 25 games left how is that halfway?

 

The REAL Kenny Smith showed up this morning, and he's not nearly the Rockets fan that you are, Tinman.

 

This team would beat the 1993-94 team in 6 games tops.

except this team might not win a championship because they will have to run through GSW and LeBron while the 1993-94 team had the Sonics and MJ taken out for them

 

Let me guess... you first became a Rockets fan sometime this century, right?

 

Can't do much about when I was born.

Remember that the Knicks took that team to 7 games, despite Hakeem dominating Ewing. We were 1/5th of a second away from Hakeem not blocking Starks and him hitting a buzzer beater to win the finals in 6.

 

I'm just saying that if you think "This team would beat the 1993-94 team in 6 games tops" then you have no idea how tough those two title teams were. Both of them.

If this year's team wins it all, then we can talk about them being as good. Until then, they're just contenders.

 

Not everything relies on championships. I still hold up the '97 and '09 Rockets as revered and accomplished. Although they didn't win, they had grit and it was fun watching them go down swinging. This is an historic Rockets team that has been a ton of fun to watch. I'll tell my son about them when he's old enough to give a crap the way my dad told me about the 80's Celtics. When we moved to Houston in '89, he grew up with the Celtic's equipment manager, so we'd get to go down to the locker room area in the Dino Rajah, Rick Fox, Dana Barros years. I remember asking my dad who the best player on the Rockets was. Even Celtic fans recognized the greatness of Hakeem.

 

I followed the Rockets since Rudy T and Calvin Murphy played. Hakeem is my favorite athlete ever. I don't see the point in this kind of miserable sentimentality. I prefer to enjoy the awesome season happening now.

 

Zone defensive rules have change things in the NBA. Days of Olajuwon or Barkley catching the
ball in the post, kicking it out to Kenny, then repost with deeper position are over with today’s rules.

Defenders had to stay within a foot of the responsibility. Had to come all the way to double or triple
team the threat. Nowadays you can show but practically stay in between offensive opponents.
One player can be guarding a player in the corner (3-point shooter) and the wing (3-pt shooter)
on the weak side.

Olajuwon could adapt to both era’s. LMA has learned to make his move upon catching the ball in the post.
Don’t wait for the defense to get in position to clamp down on you and still have the other players in their
sites. Force the action quick. Question is can the 93-94 adapt. Otis Thorpe defender would leave him and
be all over Olajuwon even before he gets the ball. Horry would play PF as a stretch 4. Yeah that Rockets team
could play this Rockets team; but a Warriors team would try to force a switch to have Olajuwon on the perimeter
to guard Draymond while Durant would Post Up Cassell or Kenny Smith or Mad Max. Olajuwon would
leave his man on the perimeter....freeing up a 3-point shooter somewhere on the perimeter.

Draymond would front Olajuwon in the post with defensive help on the baseline just sitting there waiting for
the lob pass. So hard to tell with different era’s. Jim Brown or Walter Payton in today’s NFL game?
Wilt Chamberlain in today’s NBA? Too hard to quantify. Offensive linemen were about 245 lbs in the
early years of football. Wilt Chamberlain was such a force that the NBA had to create the 3-second rule.
He camped out under the rim all day if you let him.

 

Is Usain Bolts 9.59 faster than Carl Lewis' 9.86?

If the answer is no...@tinman is the winner of the universe

 

Well, technically it's more like 2/3 of the way.

 

Yes, Mad Max went off. But that’s talking about Danny Ainge, Kevin Johnson, Dan Majerle, Oliver Miller.
Those guys couldn’t contend with CP3, Harden, Ariza, Tucker, Luc MaM, Gerald Green, Capela, Nene..

Not now or with yesteryears rules.

The 93-94 Rockets could play in either era (Horry was one of the first real stretch 4’s.. would make
the difference in both era’s). Take Thorpe out and insert Horry.

The current Rockets with the abundance of wings could compete with the teams back in that era. Wings
that the Rockets have could hand check as well as the best of them. The weak spot would be at PF.
PF’s in that era would kill Ryan Anderson. Oakley, Rodman, Barkley, A Mason, Karl Malone, etc
would have been way too physical for Ryan Anderson. Small-Ball PF’s wouldn’t work so well.
Tucker would have been killed by those guys. Luc as well. This is one reason I believe the Matrix,
couldn’t take a team to a championship as a PF. Shawn Marion had to do it with a zone playing defense
such as Dallas.

 

"Kenny is a former Rocket, so he sh1ts potpourri."

 

Defenders had to be within arm's length. And even that requirement was stretched, constantly.