I lived in Kentucky then and they loved Dirk Freakin' Minniefield. A ball handling specialist my a$$. The Sonics used to kill us.
yea, when barkley went out when we were 2-1 in the finals. I just wanted to shoot the tv!!!!!!! we were makin a run for it, and possibley would have beaten chicago
I went from houston to san antonio and I hate the spurs!! So just the fact that david robinson won a championship is my worst memory!! People in San antonio think robinson was alot better than the dream. Which is total bull!! People in that town have nobody else to cheer for so they live in fantasy land!!
definitely the stockton shot.. I thought it was chuck's year.. after eddie's shot.. but then stockton ruins it alll!! and in my mind, I knew it was going in too!!! I was yelling NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.....don't let him shooot!
I don't recall exactly what playoff game it was, maybe the "Stockton Game", but the Rockets got 7 points ahead and Hakeem got all giddy WITH 5 MINUTES LEFT IN THE GAME!!! They were all hugging and grinning, and I knew they would lose for sure. They did.
Stockton shot,, like I probaby said before, I sat for like at least 20 minutes after the game, just staring at the TV, I just stared motionless, in disbelieff,, after about 5 or 10 min. my brother and friend came in to make fun of me, (they are bulls fans), and all I did was just stare at the TV in disbelieff, no comments nothing,, they went to the park and I just stayed there staring,, I remember the eddie johnson shot I literaly almost hit the ceiling and then started rolling on the flor hollering in excitment,, my grandma almost had a heartattack.. poor lady.. but the stockton shot,, whew,, man..
The ally-oop dunk in the 1983 NCAA Finals by NC State. Oops -- That would be the Houston Cougars (Phi Slamma Jamma). That hurt for a long time.
Watched that game too. Akeem was all over the place, you could see that his athleticism was way above everyone else's. I was really shocked that they lost and really painful the way they lost it.
agreed. we lost our playoff berth b/c of those two games. i was never more mad at our team than i was those two days. ever. sickening. repulsive. revolting. disgusting.
Watched that game too. Akeem was all over the place, you could see that his athleticism was way above everyone else's. I was really shocked that they lost and really painful the way they lost it. Sry for an off-topic post .... Akeem was everywhere except with his man in that last play!! He went out from under the basket and tried to block a guy heaving up a 30 ft shot!!!
Seattle 136, Houston 80. Yes, a much forgotten 56 point loss at home to the Sonics in the 1986-87 season. I sat through the whole thing and couldn't believe what i was watching. This was the lowpoint of many homegames lost that year
Good point, but for me it was losing to Miami, Chicago, and Cleveland in a three-week period around the All-Star break. It took just as pathetic a performance and lack of effort to lose these games at all. How could you live with missing the playoffs by one game knowing that you'd lost to CLEVELAND? Especially when Cleveland didn't even WANT to win the game for fear of losing out on LeBron?!!! I think the single thing that bothers me most about this preseason is that I haven't heard one Rocket bring up that issue -- that we'd have been in the playoffs if we'd just bothered to make any effort at all against the bad teams. I want so bad to hear just ONE Rocket talk about how that taught them that every game is important.
Gosh I've seen some good ones, although I'd put that 28% effort as embarrassing instead of painful. The Stockton shot was really bad, although it kinda was expected sooner or later after our runs. So I have to say when Ralph busted his knee. Makes me wonder what could have been.
Maybe the single most disturbing moment was when the Knicks went up 3 games to 2. I mean WTF. The Knicjks were so beatable and we couldn't contain them. It was really frustrating to see the title slipping through our hands. That being said, it was topped only by OJ making a run for it during game 3. I mean I finally get to the championship and I have to watch some guy crawl his bronco down the highway. The pain of not watching the game was a pisser.
In the 96-97 season, the Rocks opened with an amazing 21-2. Their 24th game, however, was an idiotic 1 point loss to the Grizzlies that then triggered a bunch of similarly stupid defeats at home. Had they kept their focus in Vancouver, their record [through the first half of the season, at least] would have been Earth-shattering instead of just very good.
