If I could go back in time and change the Rockets

i second the Barkley trade decision

 

easy

I trade Ralph Sampson for the chicago first round pick and I select Hakkem and MJ. i do not pick Rodney McCray but get the best playmaker available.
Rocket win at least 6 Championships

 

Have Morey available back in time many years earlier (as a GM in the 80s/90s)and part of the rockets organization then. The Rockets, except when drafting REALLY high, were really a relatively poor organization at evaluating and drafting talent in the 80s/90s. They did pretty well by trade, but weren't so astute in overall talent evaluation and use of draft picks.

 

Man you kno if we had jordan their would be more dvds of the rockets and when they have
Viewin parties n open paractices,we would b able 2 take pics w/8 trophies n all that

 

So you would be content with losing to seattle in the playoffs every year?

 

I get your point and you make sense you kno what I'm sayin,but the question was,what wld
We change 4rm the past,and since we kno what jordan brought,don't you think it would've
Been more histerical if we had him?I'm jus sayin

 

Drexler was talking to Worrell about this during one of their broadcasts sometime ago. If this happened I wonder how the other NBA teams would react. Anti trust lawsuits perhaps to break that dynasty which could have lasted more than a decade?

 

I would do it too. It is only in Houston where Hakeem is greater than God himself.

 

personal yeah

it just felt it was a big signing a legit backup to Dream and it weakened the jazz

but then he proceed to suck balls here

 

Excellent thread.

Please ban anyone that says to not draft Akeem. thanks

 

No kidding.

 

THANK YOU..I knew someone would take jordan too

 

Get on this forum in 1997 and spill the beans. Infinite rep points 13 years later.

 

I think many people are forgetting that we would have gotten Damon Stoudemire for Willis, Elie, someone and Rodrick Rhodes. We did not want to trade Rhodes because the management thought he was our FUTURE!!!!! For sure, we should have been in the finals with Barkley, Hakeem and Drexler!!!!

 

To lose the last regular season game in 2006, and drafted Roy.

 

I will win the Texas lottery 10 times and then purchased the Rockets from Charlie Thomas before Les did. :grin:

 

I hate when people who are rocket fans who say we could have drafted jordan

its like dude, if you watched hakeem, you really don't care. I guess i can understand if you were young and didn't get to see hakeem's career evolve, but I'm quite happy with what I got to see

 

i have a feeling Jordan/Drexler/Hakeem would still be Jordan's team. imagine the triangle with those 3.

 

Bingo! I think some people forget that Seattle completely owned the Rockets in the years before we got Barkley...and he changed all that. I did hate having to give up Cassell though.

 

That would have given them absolutely no bench, likely leading to further injuries to Barkley and Olajuwon and probably keeping them from making the playoffs. On the flipside, a lottery pick could have come in handy.

The real tragedy of the Stoudamire debacle was alienating Elie. You can't help but wonder how he would have influenced the '99 squad. Would Pippen have melted down sooner, or would he have tried harder to make things work? The Rockets very well could have won another title that year, maybe even still going into 2000 with a lineup of Olajuwon/Barkley/Pippen/Mobley/Francis.