What is the most devestating event in Rockets history...?

Steve Only Fan vs Yao Only Fan.

Yetti just pretends not to know things like "How does a woman run?"

anyhow, <b>at the time</b>, did anyone else want to trade Sampson for the rights to pick the best guard in the Hakeem draft vs going two towers?

 

The day we cut Ryan Bowen

 

by far, and yet to be mentianed, as in Dream's book,

1. not taking Portlands offer in 84 of drexler + #2 pick (jordan) for sampson

a team of 22 year olds dream,jordan,drexler would have won 16 championships in a row

 

That's nice to imagine, but who's to say any of them would have panned out like they did without each having to carry the team in their formative years?

 

Remember Lucas was gone in 85 - 86, Wiggins and Lloyd were gone in 86-87 - weplayed the celtics in 86 with wigging and lloyd, without lucas.

Lucas was the most disappointing to me personally at the time; i loved him. But Bobby Joe Reid really took the reigns well that year, helped us with the Lakers because he could handle Magic defensively better than Luke.

But Wiggins and Lloyd were the most devastating, I think, because it took two very good shooting guards away, depleting one position completely, and other teams were not eager to help us fill them - we were the WC champs, looking unbeatable, but bent over a barrel. the hole was too big to fill. I really loved that team - then Ralph went down, etc. That was tough.

I hated the Stockton shot, but did not think we would have beatne the Jazz in 7 or the Bulls that year; I never thought the Barkley Rockets were that solid.

 

No doubt, the Lewis LLoyd, Mitch Wiggins, John Lucas fall from grace was the greatest Rocket disaater ever (excluding Challenger and Columbia of course).

We would have had our first Championship back in '87.

 

I agree w/CBFC...losing that '86 team was the most devastating. Hakeem would have won more than 2. People would have known better than to say it took 10yrs for Hakeem to peak. I was just waiting for you to chime in, since I'm allergic to agreeing with DaDakota, and he was the first in the thread to say it.

 

I don't know if this counts - but I am going to have to go with the Lockout Season. It sure affected our history.

Any Rockets play is better than none

 

He was clutch...hitting three and scoring from all over the place...and the Rockets started overtime hot until Horry fouled out. I honestly thought we were going to win that game and be the first ones to come back from 0-3 securing our place in the history of sports legendary annals. But instead, from going from complete dejected from 17 points down with 10 minutes in the game left, and 9 down with little over a minute left - to overtime...wow...only to lose in overtime. that stunk so bad. i was down for a week.

 

The Spurs getting their 2 1/2 rings.

 

To me the 1993 play-offs was the most devastating.

1993 represented the greatest opportunity to stop the Bulls 3-peat drive, silence every Hakeem doubter and pegged MJ a level down.

If you watch the Hakeem video, I remember Hakeem saying that he would have loved to take on the Suns that year because they were small. I have no doubt that short of blatant bad officiating, the Rockets would have advanced to the 93 Finals.

As for the Finals, it would have been a classic! The inside out game versus the triangle scheme. Hakeem v MJ. The Rockets owned the Bulls those early years and I think the mismatch Hakeem represents is greater than MJ's.

It's all speculation but to me it should be us with the 3-peat.

 

How about giving up those first round draft choices for Eddie Griffin? That moved destroyed the Rox for several years. What would have happen if we kept Jefferson--no power forward problems for a long long time

 

1. Stockton's shot
2. Sampson's injury
3. Losing Lucas, Wiggins, and Lloyd
4. Getting Pippen
5. The Punch
6. Dream playing for Toronto
7. Rudy fired
8. Cassell and Horry traded for Barkley
9. Not drafting Drexler
10. Not trading Griffin for Rashard

 

Nobody mentioned GAME 7 VS. DALLAS IN 04-05 LOSS BY 40 PTS






NO, just kiddin.. it's not that devestating compared to Dream in Purple!!!

 

I'll mention one that no one's mentioned.

Game 7 in 1993. Horrible calls only made the fact that the game should've been played at the Summit even worse.

Someone refresh my memory. Wasn't it this year that we either made a shot before the buzzer or the Spurs hit a shot after the clock expired that gave them the win and the division. I remember Gene Petersen saying the call was bull**** on the air.

 

Something like that, you are thinking about game 7 versus the sonics right?

Well, I can't believe no remembers the sweep the Sonics had on us almost proofing our rings were flukes at the time. I mean, how devastating is that???

 

trading our core championship team for Barkley

 

Yessir. I remember it well.

 

The worst moments I've felt were of course Stockton than losing Calvin Murthy and hearing the ugly stuff that he was accused of.

 

To each his own. I was not around or into basketball during the 80's to know about the drug issues our team went through.

But when I think of devastation, nothing touches the feeling I had at the ripe old age of 20 that my heart was about to implode as I lay on my couch in near tears.

It replayed in slow motion. First on the screen then in my mind... all summer long.

All Clyde had to do was to run the clock down a little longer -- but no-- he takes a runner in the lane and leaves time on the clock. WHY?

Then the inbound pass. The pick. The Shot.

Jazz -- Bulls -- finals.

My heart just decimated.

IMO -- hands down, no questions asked. Heart wrenching.