For All You Non-Believers

Please forgive this young man for calling the Junkyard Dog, my man Mario Elie, a "midseason pickup". Also, he called Horry "Whorry" and calls our fearless leader Rudy, Tomyanovich. In spite of this, he makes an effort that's still very worthy. Please ignore these slight imperfections in the video because he redeems himself.



Redemption: MDJ says, "You could make an argument that this was the Greatest Championship run in history". He doesn't mention the word "basketball" so he's literally calling it the best ever(don't correct me if I'm wrong, what would be your stupid point of doing that).

All hail the great champions ever! All hail the greatest winning playoff series performance of all time (Hakeem destroying the MVP)!

 

It was awesome, but don't feel too distant about it. Every one of us that witnessed the championships and still loves the team wishes we could relive it all over again just like you would love to live it once. That glorious feeling fades a little everyday even if the memory is there. I'm sure you had a piece of that feeling like we all did a few years ago when we came back against the Clippers. It's a lot like that same feeling of your happiness cup filling up, but when you win a chip, it starts spilling out all over the place. It creates a happy mess you'll never finish cleaning up. I know a lot of brocephuses and sister acts around here know what I mean.

Edit: Come to think of it, young blood, someone around here is bound to have every game of that championship year on tape. That would be fun to go through those with a fan that didn't live it. Maybe like some live chatroom sort of thing or a mystery science 3000 style deal. I actually think I'm onto something here. This could be a spinoff idea for a bigger company to have fans commenting on playoff runs from the old days. Anyway, @JBIIRockets used to have all the games on tape from those days. I'm curious if he still has them.

 

This is game 5 against the Jazz, first round. The first round series back in those days was a best of 5 so this was a do or die game for both teams. Unfortunately the audio is in some ancient Germanic language.

 

Game 7 against the Phoenix Suns. We were down 3-1 in the series and had to win 3 in a row. This is that 3rd in a row for us:

 

Game 6 against the Spurs. Rockets won game 1 and 2 on the road, then the Spurs adjusted and won game 3 and 4 in Houston. Houston (aka 'We') won game 5 in San Antonio so we were up 3-2 in a best of 7 western conference finals series. David Robinson was the MVP of the league, but unfortunately the MVP is not always given to the best player (ask Westbrook).

 

It's time to pass the torch to the young bloods, my friend! Also, if "For All you Non-Believers" doesn't make you want to finish my sentence, then you need a refresher. "Don't EVER underestimate the heart of a champion."

 

Class starts at 6am. Watch all the games and report your findings by no later than 6pm on Sunday evening.

 

If any of ya'll want to know what he's talking about, start that game 5 video vs the Jazz at about 1hour 8minutes and watch the rest.

 

Don't thank me, thank the basketball gods that delivered a miracle season. I'm just rehashing old memories.
@Aruba77 Obviously nothing personal here, just a clarification for those that weren't there if his message was a tad confusing. Clyde scored 31 in the game and we were down by 7 with about 5 minutes to play when Clyde took that game over.

Honorable mention: When was the last time you saw a person wear sunglasses on an NBA court? I'm looking at you Antoine Carr.

 

@tinman is no longer a professor at Rockets University, he's Dean tinman to you now. I report directly to him and any such complaints about the Rockets history department promotions and allocations should be directed to chairmen @Will @Jeff @Rockets2K or @Clutch.