[ClutchFans] The greatest Houston Rocket comeback ever

By the way, it was all heart to pull one off like this. It was meant to be ... They just didn't have a game plan when Harden was out. They lost their target. Josh and don't forget Brew made plays after plays offensively, and defensively, it was locked down and quick rotating. Couldn't script it any better. Purely magical. I would play the all band bro 48 min in the next game.

 

doc rivers at the postgame podium:

no chipmunk, the rockets tore out your players' vaginas and rammed it down their throats. sunday, it's harden's turn..

 

The ColLApse.

 

My two favorite plays from last night:

1. Josh Smith's 4th Quarter block of Blake Griffin. After complaining to refs when Blake was torching him earlier, Josh had enough and took matters into his own hands sending that Blake layup into the stands.

2. Dwight Howard contesting Chris Paul's final 3 pointer. Game was well in hand, but Dwight wasn't quitting until he heard the final buzzer. Made no difference to the outcome but sent the message that this team doesn't quit.

Sunday will be epic.

 

That block by Smith is anger, is violence, is what we needed in a fight. Love and hate Josh, but that fire in him is needed at times like that. 　

 

Just realised, the article title says: greatest Houston Rocket comeback. Clutch, are you implying it was a one man show

 

This was like watching Tmac's dunk over Shawn Bradley, but during the span of a quarter, no?

 

I take issue more with the fact it says "Houston Rockets" and not "NBA"

Folks, that was the greatest NBA Playoff comeback. It was historic.

 

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">(1of2)From Brewer,“Trevor said at the beginning of the 4thQ, ‘We are going to win the championship, but we have to win this game right now.&quot;</p>&mdash; Adam Wexler (@awexler) <a href="https://twitter.com/awexler/status/599281711843643392">May 15, 2015</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">(2of2)From Brewer,“If we win this game right now, that’s how you become a champion. Then
we came together and got the win.”</p>&mdash; Adam Wexler (@awexler) <a href="https://twitter.com/awexler/status/599281759516131328">May 15, 2015</a></blockquote>
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I got chills...

 

Ariza > Parsons

 

Absolutely.

 

Stupid media keeps harping on James Harden not playing in the 4th quarter. No rift here in H-Town this is a real team and took a team effort to get that done.

 

"Well .. . you can't spell Collapse with L.A." - The ole Ball Coach

Rocket River

 

Well if you're gonna win a championship, it does help to not get eliminated in the 2nd round. :grin:

 

we had enough opportunity to tuck our tails. but we never quit. we've come too far to end like this.

- dwight howard

 

I've had a beef with Fran Blinebury since 1986, when he picked the Lakers to beat the Rockets before the series even started. When he was covering the freakin' Rockets! After reading this, though, I may have to forgive him:

“There are wins and then there are wins that can define a team or a player or even a season.”

– Fran Blinebury, NBA.com


With season on line, Rockets pull off the improbable

Stunning comeback forces Game 7 on Sunday

May 15, 2015 9:34 AM ET

LOS ANGELES — The avalanche actually begins with the first few snowflakes.


A little Terrence Jones put-back off a missed jumper by Corey Brewer. A sneaky, darting block by Brewer on what looked like a sure layup by Austin Rivers. A steal by Jason Terry and back-to-back 3-pointers by Josh Smith and the ground starts to shift beneath your feet.

"You could just sense it, the bench could feel it," said Rockets coach Kevin McHale. "I could feel it. I could see it in their eyes. I would see that they caught a rhythm."

• NBA.com/Stats: Inside the Rockets' comeback

And soon they were dancing a conga line on the heads of the helpless Clippers.

There are wins and then there are wins that can define a team or a player or even a season.

Let's not get too far ahead in the narrative, because the Rockets still have to return home and win Game 7 just to get out of the series.

But this out-of-the-blue 119-107 win on Thursday night at Staples Center was breathtakingly special. The numbers say it was the first time in franchise history that the team had ever come from more than 10 points down in the fourth quarter to win a playoff game. The 19-point rally in the fiery, furious final 15 minutes was the largest postseason comeback by the Rockets since they were down 20 in Game 1 at Orlando in the 1995 NBA Finals.

It was an awesome, jaw-dropping spectacle in an unstoppable force of nature kind of way. Dare we say it — Son of Clutch City?

It was twenty years ago this spring when their nerveless, irrepressible predecessors kept right on walking the tightrope without a net to a second consecutive championship and this was the first time in the intervening two decades that the echoes had been awakened.



You can read the rest here. Haven't seen it posted. Thanks, Fran.

http://www.nba.com/2015/news/featur...me-6-analysis/index.html?ls=nba:specialsfull4

 

Shades of Clutch City...

 

Man, those quotes just make me feel like this team is so together all in on this, all on the same page and determined. Love it.

 

I felt like these guys were like true brothers man, Howard/Ariza/Terry/Smith/Brewer head band of brothers. They got together and were like "We are bringing this back to Houston"