stockten & Malone: all dat damn flopping he used to do Payton/kemp: they were just beast kevin willis- (the only rocket to take a 15ft hook shot)he tried to do the dream shake and dat shyt looked horrible every time.
i don't think that we can include stockten and malone because we beat them twice to win championships.
Oh yeah, most recently Kobe, the games were not as important, but he always manages to hit the shot to put the game away.
Any point guard in the league gave us fits, we signed Rudy's son in law, Brent Price to a max contract because he killed us. Don't forget Kelvin Cato
Kevin Garnett during the regular seasons from 98-2004. Barkley was near the end of his career and KG was too fast and tall anyways and then our string of ****ty PF's (which continues till present day with JHO and Swift ). Matt Bullard, Othella Harrington, Kenny Thomas, EG, Motay, Pig Miller, Padgett and I know I'm missing more in between were all terrorized by KG on a regular basis. It made for beating the Wolves very difficult during the regular seasons. Also, while were on the Wolves..... Terrell Brandon had a short reign of terror on us for a while too. He OWNED Steve Francis for a couple seasons.
Might have to add Jason Terry to the list. He's the biggest reason we lost to Dallas last year. Who could forget the old Boston teams with a guy who went on to become Larry Legend by killing the Rockets in the Finals.
Killed us in the Finals.... And then stunk it up the next year for us after we forked up a couple of 1st rounders....
of recent times, Kevin durant always performed well against us. including that heartbreaking 3 in the playoffs last season