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The Greatest Rocket Scapegoat of all Time?

Discussion in 'Houston Rockets: Game Action & Roster Moves' started by chinesetaco, Mar 11, 2010.

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The Greatest Rocket Scapegoat of all Time?

  1. Tmac: Heartless Bum?

    164 vote(s)
    50.3%
  2. Aaron Brooks: Won't Pass to Kmart

    7 vote(s)
    2.1%
  3. Steve Francis: 24sec Dribbler

    36 vote(s)
    11.0%
  4. Jeff Van Gundy: Attacked by Bear

    43 vote(s)
    13.2%
  5. Trevor Ariza: 0% FG

    23 vote(s)
    7.1%
  6. Other

    53 vote(s)
    16.3%
  1. redao

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    It just shows how many haters are on this board.
     
  2. tmoney1101

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  3. Southern Select

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    Rafer without a doubt. The guy played with heart for us too.

    T-mac deserved it.
     
  4. abc2007

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    If you watched som knicks games, you would see that Tmac played much harder for us than for the knicks.

     
  5. LFE171

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    David Wesley's blown layups should be up there too.
     
  6. chinesetaco

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    Oops, forgot about Rafer....
     
  7. Rocket River

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    If it is Legit. . . how is he the 'scapegoat'?
    'Scapegoat' to me . .. usually mean unfairly blamed.

    Rocket River
     
  8. Spacemoth

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    Rafer gets my vote. I've only hated on Luther for two years, and T-Mac for each day since the Toronto game and counting, but Rafer wins the award just for having me at a slow burn for the entire duration that he was a Rocket.

    And honestly, the off-court stuff, the spitting on the parking lot security guard, the getting caught drunk driving on Washington at 2am, the rumors of Asperger's syndrome...such hilarious drama only occurs once in a franchise's history.
     
  9. Tiger23

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    i say knee-back cuz if he simply had half the heart Kobe has, he wouldntve disappeared in the last 4 minutes of game 7 AT HOME vs the jazz when we were strait punked down the stretch of that decisive game and he and the other Rockets shamefully walked off the court..

    it was by far the worst moment in Rockets history
     
  10. Fyreball

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    See, why do you have to say things like this? It just makes ME have to do THIS:

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  11. crash5179

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    Did you just start watching the Rockets yesterday? What about Scottie Pippen? What about John Lucas?
     
  12. elindio23

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    rafer sucked but he kinda had heart
     
  13. Entropy

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    Shouldn't the rockets have gotten possession of the ball after Stockton hit that game-tier at 100?
     
  14. Rip Van Rocket

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    Sleepy Floyd.

    I always liked Sleepy Floyd. Doesn't it seem like the point guard is the guy that gets blamed for everything. The three years that Sleepy was our full time point guard he put up good numbers. But no one ever says anything good about Sleepy Floyd.

    The late 80's and early 90's was a time when the Rockets didn't play to their full potential. People like to point fingers at Sleepy Floyd, Buck Johnson, and Ralph Sampson. But I think the real problem was the coaching. When Rudy T took over at the end of the '92 season everything changed. Without Rudy T as coach, Hakeem and the Rockets may have never won a championship.
     
  15. david_rocket

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    Pippen, then Alston, then Tmac.
    Maybe Tmac, because his thread on NBA Dish has over 2,000 posts, I didnt see that with Rafer.
     
  16. scottie brooks

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    V-Span

    That it all...
     
  17. Francis 4 ever

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    the vid skipped a play in between. clock goes from 22. to 2.8
     
  18. AstroRocket

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    Matt Maloney. It wasn't his fault CD was handing out contracts like candy.
     
  19. tinman

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    exactly.

    The real scapegoat is JVG.
     
  20. Crudder

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    Lol...I voted for Trevor Ariza 0% FG simply because it made me laugh. In all honesty, Rafer caught some of the most flack I've ever seen here and I don't think he was always to blame...we expected too much from him and he has never been a premiere PG in this league. He had heart though.
     

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