That was an incredible game. Especially sitting in the first row behind the basket cheering and high fiving with some of the Power Dancers. By far my most memorable Rocket experience.
If you don't think it was 22wins you are crazy. 50+ teams win titles. Only 2 have won 22 or more straight. The way the team came out every single night, it was a thing of beauty. If you were at that Lakers game (22) there is no doubt in your mind. It was special. It all culminates in the Rockets knowing they were going to lose to Utah. Come on, they are intelligent enough to realize no Yao and no Rafer for 2 games sealed their fate. Yet they still played with everything they had. 22 wins hands down
Not to me. To me its a whole bunch of moments then. Each one being ahead of anything else. Define moment.
There a few pretty exciting moments. This is my list: (in no particular order) 1) 22 in a row 2) T-Mac's dunk on Bradley 3) 13 pts in 35 secs 4) Yao's 41 pts against the hawks 5) Everytime when Yao outscored Shaq 6) Yao's behind the back against the Blazers There are lots more but i can't remember right now.
besides the 22 game winning streak! I like it when Yao transformed from being a "Nice" Chinese passive player to a "smack talking" Chinese w/ American influenced cut throat killer. Example: From this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4RKpnAkmE9o To this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jss1xEzh5b4
since most of the things have been mentioned i'll go with Yao's big shot against the wizards <object width="425" height="355"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/PHaW_gtRqjo&hl=en"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/PHaW_gtRqjo&hl=en" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="355"></embed></object> Yao Shaq I was goood too. It was my bday and we won.
13 in 33...it was surreal when i first saw it, my jaw dropped after i saw tmac get the steal and go for the win, talk about a great finish. The streak after because for the first time i saw us playing like a real TEAM. It was balanced scoring and when we needed our 2 stars to step up they did
that iirc was the game mcgrady got hurt and yao had a huge (i mean HUGE) 4th quarter for 23 (?) points in a close road win. from that game and on for about 10-15 games (before chuck hayes took a stupid charge from tim thomas and made yao break his leg), yao showed flashes of dominance, an all-time great kinda of dominance. too bad it was cut short.
it was 13 in 35 not 13 in 33 I liked the Yao vs shaq where francis hit that 3 pointer at the top... Yao splitting the D on Dallas and one handed slam dunk.. Yao going coast to coast and behind the back and slamming it down 13 in 35 Yao's first 3 pointer from a francis assist 22 game winning streak. beating phoenix the end of last season Novak game winner against sac to extend the 22 gamer.. The time the cheerleader's boob popped out(well, that WAS during the Yao era). bunch of others I can't think of..
fighting with SF3 always make me with heart afire!!!! Air relay usually happened between Yao and SF3,not now with Rafel fight with SF3,Yao's always passionful,and easily show his happiness without hesitation!!!!!!! Cuz they are brothers!!
