Toyota Center fans love their heroes!

Is that the hand doctor next to Hakeem? the dr. brown guy that beat his wife?

 

He should have thrown it to the suite towards the right side.

Come on Hakeem. OT would have got it up there.

 

Barkley's last basket. But this isn't TC.

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Winning rings for a city will make you truly loved, thus a hero.

So...lets hope Yao gets back to top form and Kobe retires for a couple of years to play baseball.

 

That's right, we cheer for the people who deserved to be cheered.

P.S. by the way I know you created this in reposne to the T-mac Boos thread :grin: :grin:

 

If you have NO clue of anything about the Rockets before the 90's you are NOT a true Rockets fan.

Sorry, but Clyde and especially Chuck shouldn't even be considered some of the all time greatest Rockets. Neither of those players are wearing Rockets gear in the Hall anytime soon. Chuck gave us a few years of pounding the crap out of the ball and chucking up three's while playing terrible defense and came into camp fat. Chuck helped us maybe win one playoff series his time here. We beat Minn in the first round, a team we would never in a million years of lost to anyhow, and pushed past a out of their prime Seattle with Chuck. Thats it.

We want to be sentimental about these two because of who they were when they came to us, but lets be realistic. They are not the Hakeems, Malones, Rudy T's, Elvins, or Calvins of this franchise.

 

Chuck was fantastic for us. Unbelievable competitor. He would die on a basketball court to win us the damn game, and that deserves respect.

Hakeem dropped off more than anyone the first year Chuck arrived.

That said, 5 star thread tinman...

 

Dang, I miss Rudy T.

 

Clyde doesn't deserve to be an all-time great rocket? This is why I ****ing hate this fanbase

 

Wow I don't even know what to say.

 

another one of these threads?

is tinman a TOH now? get over it. he's gone.

 

clever.

 

There's a whole generation of TRUE fans who weren't even alive in th 80's. I was 7 years old during our first championship run. I was a casual observer through the early 2000s, I didn't start really following the team until Tmac came to town (not a huge Tracy fan, but I just happened to start watching that year). I love Tmac and Yao. I love Bobby Sura and David Wesley and Jon Barry. Landry, AB, and Scola. Kmart, Lowry, Cbud. I watched them every game and loved them for playing their hearts out for me and the rest of my fellow Rockets fans

I don't love Calvin or Moses or Elvin. I don't love Rudy T as a player. I don't love them because I never knew them. I respect and appreciate what they've done for the franchise. I see their jerseys in the rafters and realize they were probably great fun to watch every night. I watch their highlight videos and get pumped up. But I wasn't born in the 60's or 70's like some of the older posters. I never got to see them play. Does that make me any less of a fan? Heck no.

I'm the truest fan you ever will see. Go Rox.

 

I was fortunate to see those players from the late 80s and 90s, but don't be discourage because you didn't get to see them and enjoy them.

Don't worry about it. Those posters will be dead within the decade because they're all fat and lazy. Then the Rockets will win 15 consecutive championships, and will be lead by the greatest of all time.

You like basketball, you like the Rockets. You live and die by them, that's good enough for me. It won't make you a better fan or less than a fan just because your parents decided to get knocked up at a certain time.

No one was alive to see the Cubs World Series back in what, 1908?
Except for Deckard maybe.

 

Remind everyone where the Rockets started as a franchise tinman.

You guys are idiots if you would put chuck ahead of any of the Rockets I just listed.

It's funny to me that tinman hates on tmac for doing nothing for our franchise but somehow thinks us trading away Horry, and Cassell for Chucks deliverance of nothing other than injury and playoff losses is completely comical.

He can hate on Tmac even with moments like the 22 game winning streak which led to nothing but can't see the mirror in the 97 team that started 22-2 that got us nothing. I suggest a lot of you go back and rewatch the loss to the Jazz in the WCF and look at just how lazy chuck was on D and how out classed and out played by Malone he was. Go ahead and watch how he refused to step out on every single Hornacek or Stockton PnR. How much in love he was with the three point line while he was in Houston, jacking up 300 in basically 110 games (first two years) at a tremendous .250 clip. Damn near 3 a game from chuck is r****ded.

The trade for chuck set us back.