Similarities - 1995/2005

would be cool if we faced Shaq in the finals again that seemed to work out pretty well for us last time. I nominate Eddie Jones to play Dennis Scott, Damon Jones to play Nick Anderson, Dwyane Wade to play Penny Hardaway, and Udonis Haslem in Horace Grant's role. the NBA needs to make this happen

 

Reminds me more of the 92-93 season. The team didn't start out great, if I remember right. But they found themselves...started improving. Got to the second round of the playoffs and were beat by the Sonics. Hit the ground running at the start of the next season winning 15 straight.

 

That 92-93 team might have gone farther in the playoffs if we had home court advantage in the Sonics series. The home team won every game in that series. IIRC we would have had home court advantage, but a David Robinson tip in was allowed at the end of the final game of the season and that allowed Seattle to edge us out for a better record.

 

The beauty of this is that in 1995 everyone could kind of see that the Rockets were entering the last hurrah for those players. They had at most another year or two together.

Now we are on the other end of the curve and it feels great that we are on the way up again.

Let's hope this team can accomplish anything close to what the '95 team did.

 

what is funny about this is - the ROckets are looking for face the SAME teams that were in the playoffs 10 years ago - Spurs, Suns, and Sonics


...nice "rebuilding" there Warriors and Clippers...

 

This thread does have a bit of irony to it.

 

Repeat after me: NO ONE ON THIS TEAM IS ANYWHERE NEAR WHAT THE DREAM WAS IN 1995 !!!!!


Gosh, people's memory is so short ...

 

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I don't think anyone is saying that, and I hope no one is saying that this team is actually as good as that team was in 1995. And I seriously doubt anyone is saying that anyone is as good as Dream was in 1995. That was the most dominant any Rocket has ever been.

I think we have a similar type of team in terms of how they play, and the chemistry that has developed on this team.

 

It is irrelevant. The key is the "distance" between players who compete in the same era.

 

just thinking about other similarities: Stoudemire-Barkley, Nash--KJ. would be somehting if we were to meet them in the playoffs again.

 

Nash is better than KJ IMO, and Barkley's game was a bazillion times better than Stoudemire's ever will be.