Time for a bit of FUN

Porter, Green, Tate, Martin, Wood, Brooks, Christopher, Garuba, Sengun

 

5 - Moses Malone
4 - Hakeem Olajuwon
3 - Clyde Drexler
2 - James Harden
1 - Chris Paul

 

stevie franchfries
mergady
carmelo
dream
ming

green
battier
barkley
suggs

 

Yao/Moses
Dream/Hayes
Tmac/Rudy
Drexler/Elie
Harden

 

Hakeem
Thorpe
Horry
Maxwell
Kenny Smith

Sam Cassell
Mario Elie
Matt Bullard
Carl Herrera

 

No way.

Hakeem
Horry
Elie
Drexler
Kenny Smith

Sam Cassell
Chucky Brown
Pete Chillcut
Charles Jones

 

Cp3/steve francis
Harden/tmac
Green/pippen
Barkley/shane battier
Hakeem/yao

 

@pippendagimp @pippsux @PippenAintEZ2

@anyrocketsfanever

 

1. Hakeem Olajuwon
2. Hakeem Olajuwon
3. Hakeem Olajuwon
4. Hakeem Olajuwon
5. Hakeem Olajuwon
6. Hakeem Olajuwon - 6th man / Bench
7. Hakeem Olajuwon- 7th man / Bench

Head Coach: Hakeem Olajuwon
Assistant coach: Hakeem Olajuwon
GM: Hakeem Olajuwon
Trainer: Hakeem Olajuwon
Owner: Hakeem Olajuwon
Security: Hakeem Olajuwon
Referees: 3 Hakeem Olajuwon s.
Refreshments: Hakeem Olajuwon (Does everything AND sells the popcorn) may as well

If you’re going to DREAM may as well DREAM BIG!

 

1993-1994 Houston Rockets

 

This is really tough, because there are some TRULY GREAT players that have dawned a Rockets uniform. So even though there were greater Rockets and certainly better role players, the best all time greats that I can think of are...

Honorable mention:
- Rudy Tomjanovich - one of my all-time fav Roxs for what he did as a player and coach
- Rick Barry - past his prime here, but a true all timer
- Dwight Howard - played well
- Ralph Sampson - potentially an all time great who's body failed him

Starting Five:
- Akeem Olajuwon - the greatest, not even close
- Elvin Hayes - we should have never traded him, classic 70-80s big.
- Moses Malone - ultimate rebounder, excelled as a work horse--RIP
- Clyde Drexler - oh, if we had only drafted hi vs McCray
- James Harden - should have won 3-4 MVPs, was a dominate PG

Bench:
- Yao Ming - unique big from non-bball country
- Calvin Murphy - Immortal Rocket
- Charles Barkley - In retrospect I wish we hadn't made the trade, but we did
- Tracy McGrady - if only he an Yao could have stayed healthy, what could've been

 

Best first round hustle team ever. Throw in a half busted Tmac and they take any Boston team to seven games.

Slow Clap

 

Rick Barry played for the Rockets. He was as good as anybody on the list outside of Olajuwon.

 

When I hear "rotation" I think best combination and not really best players.

Paul / Lowry
Harden / Drexler
Battier / Ariza
Horry / Sampson
Olajuwon / Malone

 

Harden/Paul
Clyde/Calvin
TMac
Moses/ Scola
Dream/ Yao
Coach: Rudy T

 

Fair point. It is all in fun.
I guess it's all about who this 9-man rotation has to play. If they are going to LA. They would face a team that would be something like

Magic Byron Scott
Kobe Jerry West
Worthy
Lebron A. Davis
Shaq Kareem
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With that kind of size, Yao might be helpful. Malone has a complete game, I'm not sure that he brings anything that Dream can't already provide. Plus, I'd love to see Yao contest the skyhook.

 

Absolutely, all in fun....and as always, match ups count for a lot...

That said, I'd want Mad Max against the Lakers.

 

Ralph was born for today’s NBA. Ralph was superb except he wanted to be a 3. His head was 2+ decades a’head’, or 2++ decades behind.

 

Ralph was a beast down low, but his versatility led to him playing away from the bucket after we drafted Dream, and, I believe caused his injuries,

 

Yao was a terrific basketball player. Yao was a better human. In many regards Yao Ming was my fav Rox ever. And that diminishes not one iota Dream nor Rudy T.