God the end of that game was awesome. Rudy was worthless as a coach, it was as if he played for the team, but I liked his emotion. The fans were freakin' awesome. What happened to all them?
Earlier today they had the 1987 Game 6 versus Seatle that went into double overtime...man dream was a beast!
Watching the 93 game I was struck by our lack of depth. Olajuwan/Rollins Thorpe/Herrera Horry/Bullard Maxwell Smith/Brooks/Garland Bullard and Herrera WERE the Rockets bench in that game. And STILL we pushed Seattle to a 7th game. That Seattle team was stacked - Pierce, Kemp, Payton, McKey, McMillan, Perkins, Johnson, Cage, Benjamin, Barros
dıd anybody notıce the play near the very end ın the 4th perod where seattle tossed the ball ınto the stands and they called ıt out on houston, where Thorpe ıs lıterally standıng 6 feet away from the trajectory of the ball? Burned ın my memory.
There was another they called out on Hakeem that he never got a hand on. One of the Sonic deflected it before Hakeem could grab it. The commentators commented on it after the commercial break, but the refs, of course, got it wrong.
The bench is the most overated thing in a sport like basketball, especially during the playoffs. The starters play 80-85% of the minutes, the bench is just to hold down the fort. It is why I am not worried about the Rockets lack of depth. DD
Well, in 1993, our bench didn't hold down the fort apparently. In 1994, we had the same starters and somehow won it all. I wonder what the difference could have been? We lost the last game against Seattle by 3 points. Something tells me a better bench for that 15-20% of the game would have helped. We played 10 guys that game including Brooks, Garland and Rollins off the bench. I think Cassell and Elie were fairly significant upgrades in talent and fort-holdability the next year. I was just making the comment that we had no depth. I could not imagine the outcry today if we tried to go to war with that same bench behind Yao and McGrady.
Just because the bench is overrated in the playoffs does not mean that it still doesn't serve an important function. How the bench performs during their spurts will make things harder or easier on the starters when they finish games.
no kidding, they just pop out, right at you. its so funny, you really got used to them. now that three years have passed, they are back to being hideous like when you first saw them.
am i the only one who actually like the mid 90's unis? I still rock my Francis one when I'm feeling reminiscint.
thats great, too bad that only 1 player of the Rockets current startıng lıneup would be good enough to start over hıs counterpart on the 94 Rockets. It would be ıffy ıf Howard or Alston would even crack the rotation. Legıtımately, only Battıer, Yao, and McGrady are good enough to be on that team.
