Draft Grnager over head, keep Rudy Gay, draft balir and probably draft stoudemire over Yao ( hey its my opinion)
Never traded Rudy Gay especially not for Batter. That was the biggest setback in the yao and t-mac era.
Instead of trading up for Eddie Griffin in the 01 draft, we keep the picks, and drafted, Richard "I'm not gay" Jefferson, then Zach Randolph, as a back up to Steve, then draft Gilbert Arenas with the last of the first round pick. But if this would of happen, we would of never had a shot at drafting Yao the following season, but we would of had an awesome team. It could of happened too. I hear people say the 01 draft was one of the worst in history. No it wasn't It had decent talent. The problem was it was one of the most worst scouted draft in history. IF you had the best player of that draft come out of the 2nd round, you know the scouts wasn't doing their jobs. Heres the link and check it out yourself s. Nbadraft.net
I would of done the trade Hakeem talks about in his book. Trade Sampson to Portland for Drexler and there first round pick, which was number 2 pick, and would of been Jordan. Hakeem/Drexler/Jordan=10 championships.
If you could travel through time would revamping the Rockets really be high on your list of activities to complete ? OP you seem to be blatantly ignoring Sarah Conner -- defend yourself.
As others have said, with hindsight..... 1) Traded Sampson for pick and #2 pick. (i don't think we would've drafted jordan as drexler would've been our sg and we would've kept the phi slamma jamma name) and we would've had barkley 2) Eddie Griffin, I knew he would be a bust from the start.... 3) Rashard Lewis, watching us pass him over that many times.....jesus.... 4) no matt maloney or brent price.....ever. 5) Would've drafted blair over jermaine taylor (tell washington to) 6) Never traded Shane for Rudy Gay - or tank the end of the season to get brandon roy....either or..... 7) have gotten a better supporting cast for the tmac and Yao era.....
Additionally.... Not leaking the damon stoudamire trade in 1999 too soon. Adding him to dream, barkley, pippen and mobley couldve made a difference.
Seems to me like you have your draft years mixed up in regard to 83/84. But I might be misreading you. In any case...damn, but those were two incredible draft years.
The '80's were enough to make any Rockets fan go mad. That we aren't all raving lunatics is a miracle. First we lose Moses, at the time the top center in the league, in what amounts to a trade with the Sixers for Caldwell Jones and the '83 first round pick, which (amazingly) turns into Sampson. The Sixers win the championship and a ring for Moses and Dr. J. Moses is Finals MVP, of course, and wins his second straight league MVP award. We're 14-68. Talk about suffering! Then all the stuff mentioned earlier in this thread happens and the Dream is "lost" for years in a series of mediocre Rockets teams through the rest of the decade and into the beginning of the '90's, never losing enough to get good draft picks and rarely getting past the 1st round. The two championships finally helped put it in the rear view mirror. I guess.
Yea but if we wldv drafted jordan we wldv probably had 8 championships instead of 2.n if we wldv drafted jordan we wldnt have this conversation cuz cuz we wldv been Good draftin jordan........atleast we didn't draft boowie that night
As I recall, Olajuwon would have been drafted #1 no matter which team was drafting first that year. Had Chicago had the #1 pick, they would have taken Olajuwon. Bowie was the second highest regarded center, and there's no way the Rockets would have drafted him ahead of Olajuwon. I sincerely believe that had the Rockets lost the coin toss that year, Jordan would have been their pick as #2, and they would have been going with a Ralph Sampson/Michael Jordan duo (which, over the long haul, would have served them well). I'm going by memory here, so I could have some faulty recollections...but that's the way I remember things.
