Pretty boring time in the offseason now. So I found this and figured some of you might enjoy watching this. If someone can compress it and youtube this, that would be pretty cool too. Anyway, its a compilation of stuff some guy made from the 2nd championship run. Someone posted a hakeem mix in the NBA forum but that's limited to stuff till the first championship. Props to whoever made this video. http://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php?action=download&ufid=8D07A4B826CC6854
Just FYI for you guys that want to kno how big it is.. It's 149 MB big... took about 5 minutes to d/l at my work so at least double that time with Time Warner Cable..
i'm sure you've seen this before courtesy of julio-r- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2GdsxK50ww&search=1994 houston rockets see we can have a disagreement in the d&d and still agree outside of it maybe b-ball does bring people together...
i've seen it, its incomplete, they should have started after max shot the 3 and his teammates mobbed him. hey we're cool, unless u talk trash about max!
dude i love vernon maxwell...i'll defend anyone from the championship teams...you should go check out the pics of turbo i posted in the turbo performed on nbc thread
Here's a new link, youtube on the way. http://www.sendspace.com/file/i8qzx6 It's not as fast as yousendit, but the link will last longer. Preview:
It was inspiring to see how the guys ran and hustled... It shows that Houston weren't just a "dump it to Hakeem and post a bunch of shooters on the perimeter" team... They hustled down the floor at 100mph everytime there was even a sniff of a break. They were out-sprinting the Orlando defenders even while dribbling the ball! Also the athleticism and quickness from Clyde, Sam and Hakeem... the teamwork... wow... Granted, those were just highlights, but the current bunch of Rockets can learn a lot from those guys...
I never get tired of watching those championship games, highlights, etc. Those temas played as a unit and really fed off of each other emotionally. I would make the current team watch those videos constantly...lol like have them running on the screens in the locker room before each game or something. Also shows you how important team chemistry is to winning. The next year in 1996 when we lost to Seatle and then made the trade for Barkely we totally destroyed the chemistry we had. I think losing OT hurt us as well, it was a good short term fix for 1995 but in the long run we paid dearly for it. After the trade for the Chuckster and losing to Utah in the WCF we never even came close again. Really emphasizes how fragile a winning formula can be.
If we hadn't traded OT for Clyde I don't think we would have made the playoffs in 1995. The team was playing awful and there was zero team chemistry when the trade was made. Memory doesn't serve me very well, but I think OT had some tension with Dream and Rudy and he was a goner no matter what. Championship chemistry doesn't last forever and there wouldn't have been a 2nd championship without the trade for Clyde. He brought a confidence we needed because, at the time, the other players were deferring to Dream way too much. Clyde changed the chemistry of the team into what caused the 2nd championship playoff run. We can argue the Barkley trade forever. The Rox were tired of Horry not going to the next level, and like OT, Sam's issues with Dream and Rudy festered to the point they couldn't be ignored. Much as I dislike him intensely, the problem I had with the Barkley trade was it was one year too late for us.
Yes, the Clyde trade bring the rockets fresh things, (I dont like exactly) is like artest was traded to the kings, the kings raise a lot from the spot they were.
