Pick any players in the league and recreate our championship Rockets, just for kicks. I think you'll find that they don't make players like they used to. **Active players only please. Ideally we're looking for a dominant centre to draw double teams, a banger PF, and shooters from the 3 to the 1. As for '95, we need a superstar wing player to pair with our dominant center a versatile as hell SF, and more shooters of course!
C: Big Z PF: D. Howard SF: Tayshaun Prince SG: Ricky Davis PG: Damon Jones for 95 replace ricky with Paul Pierce
duncan kurt thomas prince bowen terry (get it? JET! haha) then the following year: duncan prince bowen pierce terry ----------- our current team can get pretty close to the championship rockets. yao and tmac are similar to dream and clyde. the 2 players that set the old guys over the top were ellie and horry. ellie was a tough defensive player who was a very good 3pt shooter. sounds like a perfect fit next to tmac. horry was a 4 who could hit the 3. sounds like a great fit next to yao. the two players i would like to have are james posey and troy murphy. they with yao and tmac would be a tough team.
'94 Tim Duncan (considered a C for this purpose) P.J. Brown Tayshaun Prince Kyle Korver Leandro Barbosa '95 Tim Duncan Malik Rose Tayshaun Prince Vince Carter Leandro Barbosa
94: KG (yes at center) PJ Brown Prince Ricky Davis Damon Jones 95: KG Shawn Marion? Matt Harpring Paul Pierce Damon Jones
Dominant center: Yao Extremely versatile SF: T-Mac Banger PF: Stro (yeah yeah, but we know we haven't seen the best of Stro yet.) Shooters: ? That's all we're missing. Luther shows promise, but we still need an upgrade here. We're not that far off, ya know.
'94 Yao - no body plays like dream...just need a dominant center right? PJ Brown - why, why didn't we trade for him when we could've! Prince - closest player to a younger Bob Horry I've seen Mobley - as quick as mad max w/the same inconsistency but capable scoring ability...similar on D as well Derek Fisher - just shoots 3s, minimal assists ala the Jet
93-94 team C: Hakeem and Yao. There will never be another Hakeem, but Yao may develop into something close in terms of effecting the game. Before this season I would have taken Shaq instead of Yao. Although, neither Yao, nor Shaq can ever dream to play defense like Hakeem did. PF: Ben Wallace and Otis Thorpe. Both very good rebounders and good defenders and neither could hit anything more than 2 feet away from the basket. While Ben is a better help defender, Thorpe was a better man to man defender. Ben cant palm and throw a basketball the whole length of the court like a baseball either. SF: T. Prince and Robert Horry. Both play solid defense and are complimentary role players. Piston fans have been waiting for Prince to emerge as an offensive force just as we Rocket fans waited for Horry to be one. Keep waiting. Prince takes the edge in terms of one on one defense while Horry takes the edge in terms for clutch shooting. I realize that Prince is not a great outside shooter but in 93-94 Horry wasnt shooting from outside as much as slashing and dunking. 94-95 was when Horry transformed into an outside shooting PF. SG: Ricky Davis and Maxwell. Both are nutcases and both can shoot you in or out of games. And both can play good defense when motivated. Maxwell would still beat the crap out of Davis though. He was a certifiable thug. PG: Damon Jones and Kenny Smith. Absoluetly useless for everything except 3 point shooting. Bench: Sam Cassell and Luther Head. Rookies, fearless, potential. Mario elie and Josh Howard. utility players who do everything while bringing an attitude. mario of 93-94 was amilder version of mario in 94-95. Thats why he didnt see much playing time in Finals against Knicks. ofcourse there was the matchup problem too. Carl Harerra and Eduardo najera. Foreign, goofy looking, effective hustling role players. Scotty Brooks and Earl boykins. Short, fiesty, effective at PG for short spurts. Chris Jent and Lampe: Good luck finding court time. 94-95 Season C: Same as 93-94 PF: Horry and Horry. This is the year that everyone realized how valuable Horry is at PF playing with a dominant low post player. Horry allows 4 shooters to be on the court along with a post player. Great entry passes, dead eye shooting, and clutchnessity. Same Horry today, except he moves 3 times slower. SF: Mario Elie and Ron Artest. Ron Artest is Mario X5. Everything that Mario did, Ron does 5 times better. perhaps a better choice would be Josh Howard. SG: Clyde and Vince Carter. Slahsers, dunkers, inconsistent outside shooting. Although, Carter is better outside shooter, while Clyde was better playmaker. Similar defenders. Both need to be second fiddle to win it big. Carter also got a chance with Dream. Too bad he was 99 years at the time. PG: Same as 93-94. Damon is never gonna change. Neither did Kenny Smith. Bench: Cassell and Mike james. Feerless, take no prisoner attitude. Similar game style. Chucky Brown and Chuck Hayes. Yeah baby!!! The chuckster connection. Pete Chilcutt and Lampe. Yeah, lampe is following the footsteps of some legends. Earl Cureton and a carrot in my refrigerator.
also for 95 Maurice Williams would be Sam Cassell Joe Smith would be Carl Herrera and Bonzi Wells would be Mario Elie
