Oh yeah. This is nothing. Try losing to the Suns in game 1 & 2. Then ending up 3-1 in the 1st 4 games. Then OVERTIME in game 5 on the road. (series playoffs in 94-95). Oh yeah, papers referring to the Rockets as Choke City. I had triple bypasses every game.
this is nothing compared to kiss of death. Nothing. As an old timer this series is far from over either way. When you get older you take the highs and lows more big picture. 2-2 everyone needs to calm the f down.. When we lost against phx at 3-1 that was the lowest of the lows. This is nothing ( old man exit)
Nick Anderson missing 4 free throws in a row in finals game 1 is one of my earliest and most stressful rockets memories. Then Kenny with the 3 to force OT. Amazing.
Clutch City was hell -- I would never want anyone to go through what we had to go through to win those championships. The John Starks PTSD flashbacks alone are pure hell -- don't even get me started on the Suns...
The same people that quit when we were 12-0 tonight were the same ones who quit watching when we got down big that night in utah. They played theirselves.
despite achieving hakeem status in the old forum, i am not a 99er, so i am not qualified to give an answer.
The first one was worse than this for me. We had never won a championship before. Houston seemed cursed. It looked hopeless at times but somehow they would battle back. The second championship wasn't as stressful for me because we had already done it and I knew we could do it again. We also had Dream and Clyde. This series feels like the first championship. We have to prove we can win it all against a fierce rival.
Imagine having to watch this.... The Clock Incident happened in the last moments of Game 4 of the Western Conference Finals between the Rockets and Jazz. Tom Chambers inbounded the ball to Jeff Hornacek with 13.5 seconds left and Utah down 2. As play resumed, the Jazz timekeeper didn't start the clock as they were trying to look for an open shot. After 8 seconds, the clock finally started as Chambers got the ball down low. However, Utah didn't take advantage of the extra time they were given, and after Chambers attempted a shot and missed, there was a mad scramble for the ball. It ended up in Robert Horry's hands, who passed it to Kenny Smith; Houston ran out the clock to win 80–78.
Are you kidding? Of course this is how it is! I still remember exactly where I was for Mario's "Kiss of Death", Kenny Smith's 3 to tie Game 1, Vernon becoming a legend in 2nd half of Game 3 in Phoenix, Eddie Eddie Eddie!!!, and so many more. It's where the name of this site we post on was born!
It was looking bad from the outset during the 94-95 season. Many felt that trading Thorpe was unforgivable and Hakeem went down that year for a pretty significant stretch, and we were basically playing .500 ball without him. We were also down and almost out against Utah and Phoenix. Once we got to San Antonio things were much smoother from there. The year before, things were downright scary against the Knicks, but we managed thanks to Starks thinking that he was a superstar and getting his shot blocked by Dream. We even got the OJ Simpson chase for that championship run! Those were both scary years at times, and there might have been more runs if not for Seattle. Make no mistake, however. None of the tema that we faced then were as good as the Warriors team we're facing now.
