Do you think the Rockets would have more titles if Robert Horry never left?

We would have won 3 with Sean Elliot.



DD

 

Was Rockets beaten by Settle at 4:0 in 1995-96?

Was that the reason Rockets want to Sir Charles?

I think Hakeem lost the motivations after 2 WC. I think that's why Sir Charles and pippen felt sour with Rockets.

 

Keep thinking...

...here's a thinking aid:

Pippen sucked and was exposed for his extensive hooverness when he didn't produce any measurable difference when in our lineup and kept whining every other game and trying to pass the blame on to everyone else... all the way up to his pathetic dribbling the ball off his knees in crunchtime to send us home in the playoffs against the Lakers.

Chucklehead is 'soured' by the rockets because Les Alexandar stiffed him some money when he promised to pay him extra in the next year after signing for less up front for his bloated non-practicing ass weak performance. (good boarding though; how could you not when you take up half the paint?)

 

Come on, ZERO?

Last season we would have taken it with Horry. We were starving for 4th quarter points in game 7, and Horry would have at least made 2 threes. If we beat Goldenstate, we would have ran through the Spurs and the Cavs to win it all.

I believe the Rockets could beat the Spurs in a seven game series ever since 04-05. Now with Robert Horry on our team? Come on.


But still, if we never made that trade, who knows what our team would look like now.

 

That move for Barkley was D-U-M dumb, S-T-U-P-D stupid.

Yeah so we got swept by Seattle in that series, but that should have hardly been a call for gutting. Cassell and Horry were still raw then, Cassell would go on to become a 20 ppg scorer, and I guarantee you Robert Horry's career would have been much different if he had stayed in Houston and kept on playing the SF role instead of bulking up and moving to the PF spot like he did in LA. There were few 6'10 small forwards when Horry was playing there and Houston always had one of the tallest front lines in the league which was amazing for our defense.

We got killed by Seattle because they had one of their best teams ever with Kemp, Payton, Hawkins, and Schrempf all in their primes. We basically had a Frankenstein CBA frontline of Chucky Brown and Mark Bryant trying to guard one of the best PFs in the league. Signing Kevin Willis should have been enough.

I can't believe we got rid of Smith and Cassell (who were averaging around 23 points and 8 assists together) that season and thought we could cover that lost by signing Brent Price who had one good season where he averaged 10 points.

Still angry about that and all the 7'6 Dream shaking centers in China can't fill that void.

By the way, Horry had some pretty sick dunks. Miss that part off his game the most.

 

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Robert Horry > Phoenix

 

HAHAHA...i remember watching that game wondering what the hell Pippen was thinking.........

 

Ditto (unless you count this year)

 

we should have kept Sam.

 

Horry is no different than Phil Jackson. Neither is that good at what they do, but they look like a hero because they put timely cherries and whip cream on to of a quite a few bowls of the best ice cream money can buy.

 

There could be another question, which could be "Do you think the Rockets would have won ANY NBA titles if they selected Harold Miner instead of Robert Horry in the 1992 NBA Draft?" I would actually like to know how many people on this board were unhappy at that instant the announcement came from Commissioner David Stern that the Rockets selected Robert Horry.

I do think that they manage at least one more NBA Title have they not traded Horry away after being swept by the Sonics in 1996. It is just that they needed to not be having to play the Sonics until the conference finals. You never know, that with some luck, some team in 1997 might have managed to knock off the Sonics prior to the conference finals like what we managed to see happen in 1994 and 1995.

Seeing how Robert contributed in helping the Lakers win their championships from 2000-2002, he still might have been a solid contributer when Hakeem Olajuwon was still around. After the Lakers acquired him from the Suns shortly after his towel throwing incident on Suns Coach Danny Ainge, we would see him make the same contributions in helping the Lakers win their championships much like what he did with the Rockets. But then again, we shouldn't forget about his contributions with the Spurs in 2005 as well.

 

I think we would have won more titles if Horry and Cassell had never left. We would have just had to figure out a way to get past Seattle.

 

I always belived that there was one more championship from the '96 roster. They just needed to tweak the personnel to get past the Seattle kryptonite.

 

no.....

 

probably none. we might have been better down the road but we might not have gotten yao if we had more talent on that awful team.