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

Discussion in 'Houston Rockets: Game Action & Roster Moves' started by jscmedia, Oct 27, 2006.

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  1. jscmedia

    jscmedia Member

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    I have 3 or 4 VHS's of the playoff years, need to get them put on DVD some day soon. I tried downloading the long vids from the net but it's just too much trouble...lol..

    wonder if the celtics finals is out there somewhere? I was doing news while Anita ( I needa a martini) Martini was doing her sports talk on KULF AM.

    Larry Bird. what else can ya say?
     
    #101 jscmedia, Oct 28, 2006
  2. Luffy1

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    Trading for Steve Francis. He's turned out to be a career loser like Marbury. Though in the end, I guess swindling the orlando gm for tmac helps to make up for that mistake.
     
    #102 Luffy1, Oct 28, 2006
  3. rhino17

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    Definitely when John Stockton hit the three pointer. I was at the game and I just couldnt believe it.
     
    #103 rhino17, Oct 28, 2006
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    When we lost a 2-0 lead on Dallas then ended up loosing on game 7 by 40.............But we where cheated!!!!

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    also funny shaq kobe vid!!!!!!!

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  5. Kerfeld

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    My answer to this question really depends on the way you interpret the question. If you ask what was the most devastating event at the time it happened, for me it is absolutely Stockton's shot. However, if you ask after time it has to be draft nite 2001. The Eddie Griffin trade set this franchise back for years. They blew three number one picks in a relatively good draft. I mean, the guys available after our selections were unreal. I know I hate him, but Parker was available, so was Randolph and Tinsley. Not to mention the fact that Griffin was an absolute zero for the Rockets.
     
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    Losing Lucas....then Wiggins & Lew Lloyd. Lucas especially what he brought to the team. That alley-oop to Sampson was awesome....
     
    #106 kellume, Oct 29, 2006
  7. Patience

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    I agree it sucks that we got zero from those picks, but I doubt we would have drafted Parker, and I really don't think Randolph or Tinsley would've made that big of a difference. I mean, look at Portland and Indiana right now.

    I do agree that it would have been nice to have Richard jefferson.
     
    #107 Patience, Oct 29, 2006
  8. Pocket Rockets

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    i don't need to

    http://web.ksl.com/TV/jazz/game6.htm

     
    #108 Pocket Rockets, Oct 29, 2006
  9. GATER

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    Far and away the best answer. You add Clyde into the mix and everything else...drugs, Sampson's knee shortened career and Malone's thuggish bearhug...would have been much less an issue. Having Drexler instead of Rodney McCray would have re-written everything that followed.
     
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  10. wink3

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    when the rockets got swept by the sonics the year they were defending their back-to-back titles.
     
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    Yes, I agree. I was at the game and I can still remember that sick feeling I had. That was the game where Clyde made the bonhead play of jacking up an ill advised shot with alot of time still left on the shot clock. Plus we got hosed by the ref on the screen that got stockton open. I forgot, but somebody got held on the screen. Everytime we play the Jazz, I think of that game (starting with this Wed).
     
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    Can you believe eventhough we cut him, Bowen is still owed $1 million in guranteed money. That is a pretty bad money. I can't believe a guy like that can be sitting at home and still make that kind of money.
     
    #112 dreammvp, Oct 30, 2006
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    Trading Horry and Cassell
     
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    I don't know about devastating but the most embarrassing was Calvin Murphy’s rape allegations.
     
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    the string of failed draft picks (not including Yao) in the mid-90s onward that doomed the team to mediocraty for so long.
     
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    We've been overt his before, but who says the Rockets draft Michael Jordan with the #2 overall selection taht year?

    At that point in time, had they made the trade, they would have had Akeem, Drexler, McCray Lucas - and a gaping hole at the PF spot.

    They already have a starting 2 in Drexler and a starting 3 in McCray as well as capable backups for both in Robert Reid and Mitch Wiggins. At the PF slot, they have Jim Peterson and Hank McDowell. Why would they draft Jordan and not Bowie, the best PF in the draft (allegedly) at the time?
     
    #116 SamFisher, Oct 30, 2006
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    Ralph Sampson?

    Edit: Duh. n/m
     
    #117 durvasa, Oct 30, 2006
  18. StupidMoniker

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    They probably wouldn't have drafted Jordan, but they may have drafted Barkley, if they had vision (although since they didn't make the trade, that isn't very likely). They could have had the big three for their whole careers.
     
    #118 StupidMoniker, Oct 30, 2006
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    Most devastating moment was a couple of days ago when Flyin Ryan was cut.
     
    #119 Felixthecat, Oct 30, 2006
  20. Pocket Rockets

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    Maybe but whose to say they all wouldve developed to the HOF players they were together?
     
    #120 Pocket Rockets, Oct 30, 2006
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