To once again, experience playoff success..if, for a game...feels good. Just think what it's doing for the guys in that locker room. GS & the Rockets are two ships passing in the night. We're ascending and they're on the downslope, picking up speed. Our youngins are growing into...something special, before our eyes. While we're all looking forward to the rest of the playoffs (however long we might last this year), and being a contender over the next decade or so...a moment...to savor, and smell the roses. Go Rockets!
A playoff win over Golden State no less. There is no better sports-related satisfaction in my universe greater than a playoff win over Golden State. If they win the series I might have to adopt an entire pack of dogs and name them after all the players.
the Ws young’ns reminded me of Flyin’ Ryan. Amusing. But, that old dude moving and moving and throwing 3s down? Tip’o the cap to Mr Golf.
Fitting for the warriors to loose because of Butler going down. Reminds me of another Rockets Warriors battle…of course not as big of as the other but feels good.
Fitting to see the basketball gods put Golden State in their place every now and again. They are long overdue for some basketball karma. If Draymond pushing Amen into Jimmy causing the accident isn't that, I don't know what it is.
It's been a long time. I remember the hurt feelings when Yao and T-mac could not pass UTAH, then Harden and Paul dominated them in the Playoffs. I also remember the hurt feelings when Harden and Paul were so close to finish GSW, so, let's just hope our young boys can maintain the Rockets' legacy and beat these mfkers hard!
I would keep all your guys, and hope that we either develop or acquire a couple of players that would complement the existing players. The Rockets are already a top 5 team. A bit of luck in respect to the above, and you have a contending team for the next 8 to 10 years.
They got 4 championships out of that run......and it ended. They probably felt Curry would deserve more but yeah that is just basketball and not superstitious karma.
We need Amen to take another leap. Need Reed to become a rotation player. Be nice if Cam did too. I’m not going harp on FVV numbers since he’s playing to the best of his ability but imagine if we got more actual production out that position instead of steadiness…
I was just thinking of 1986 and the run to the Finals by the Rockets after seeing your OP, @Plowman, when I saw this post of yours. What a series! The Lakers were the defending champs and considered by much of the sports media as certain to beat us, yet we stunned them in 5 games. Sampson's incredible shot to close them out prevented the Celtics/Lakers Finals the media assumed was in the offing. Of course, we lost to the Celtics in six. No shame in that. We were a relatively young team (sound familiar?), while we played the veteran Celtics of a 29 year old Larry Bird backed by Kevin McHale, Robert Parish, a healthy Bill Walton (Sixth Man of the Year), Dennis Johnson, and Danny Ainge - all part of a deep 10 man rotation (possibly the best collection of talent ever), but we were seen by the media as a future dynasty and sure to eventually win championships. As you know, it quickly fell apart. Fans of the Rockets know full well that we can never assume anything in the playoffs. Hakeem spent the next several seasons wandering in the wilderness of 1st and 2nd round exits until Coach Rudy Tomjanovich led Dream, OT, ET, Mad Max, Mario, Kenny Smith, and the rest to the Promised Land in 1993-94. Anytime our guys make it to the playoffs, we have to give it everything we've got, toss in the kitchen sink, because there's no telling what the future holds. If the history of the Rockets tells us anything, it tells us that.
To think, only twice did another team get out of the West in the eighties. Having to face Boston each time... I remember watching Sampson hit that shot at Dan Patrick's with my best friend. The place exploded...folks crying. The best of times! I still think those teams were better than our guys that finally got the job done.(God bless em) Yeah Deck, it's tenuous....not to be taken for granted. That's for sure.
