Fan since 1984. Did I mention I was born in 1984? At Sharpstown General? 1994 was a coincidence; I was 10 and would've worshiped the Rockets anyway. I just ultra loved 'em. Seriously. I have 2 or 3 Olajuwon jerseys, 2 or 3 Kenny Smith jerseys, a Drexler jersey, and another 5 or 6 Rockets shirts. Who was your favorite team when you were 10? Uh-oh. That sounds like a good thread.
Barkley is the whole reason I'm a Rocket fan. Was a Suns fan until he got traded. Stayed with the team and Franchise when he retired.
can we ban tinretard? is there a way to ignore all of his threads, as in if you have his entire existence on ignore? like, you can't even see them, so they won't mess up your evening? when are you gonna grow up? when are you gonna stop being such a narcissistic attention w****? I by no means set the forum rules, but it's a "rockets 2008: GAME ACTION & ROSTER MOVES".. key number 2008, key words "game action and roster moves".. how does asking people if they're Barkley fans or whatever the hell this thread is fit in this forum? actually, a better question is, how does it fit in life in general? does it have a place in this universe? is it worth wasting 10 minutes of my time typing this rant? just get a life for the love of god, and try to get attention to yourself by offering good insight.. actually, scratch that, just INSIGHT for god's sake, not asking for much, I'm just asking you to stop this whole "I'm an old fan unlike you" crap.. actually, I would like to know how old you are.. are you even that old? I saw a picture of you (with your face blacked out) in this one thread, and you look like you're in your 20s, let's say 28, minus 14 (championship years), that's 14 at best, yet you express your endless love to your hero Maxwell, whose effort with the Rockets I hold very dear, but your repetitive non-stop crap makes me sick.. get a hobby, check a therapist, google "A-D-D" and see if any remedies are available, but for the good of me and other people, put an end to this.
selective memory... i'll never forget those last possession dribble down the clock moments, and the deer in the headlights look stevie would have after snatching defeat from the jaws of victory... over and over and over again
From Houston. Fan since 86. I actually met Barkley and Charles Jones at Timberwolves back when they were playing for us
Charles was a good Rocket. Unfortunate turn of affairs for him ... not that being a TNT comic isn't a well paid gig!
I'm so glad someone said this. I actually felt we were killing our future with the trade and since we didn't win it all that year i kinda lost hope and became more of a casual fan. I mean we had some good old players but our young guys were garbage (Maloney?, E-mail?, Harrington?, Rhodes?). There was no reason to think that team would get better. Atleast with Francis we hadn't already reached our ceiling and there was hope to get better.
selective memory is people arguing this team should have been anything more than they were. motaylor, kelvin cato, shandon anderson, oh noes
We traded Cassell and Horry. It's not like Chucky Brown and Mark Bryant was gonna have a role with us signing T-Rex. It hurt that we didn't have a real PG but Matt Maloney was still solid in his first year (yeah I just said that, all rookie second team, .400 3 pt Shooter, .440 overall and almost 10 points a game).
Are you kidding me?!? There's a big fat monolithic difference between feeding one of the GOAT of basketball in the post and letting a streetballer dribble the hell out of the ball while the rest of the team is on the other side of the court. The game has always been predicated with a dominant big man having a post presence. From the Wilt days to Kareem, Walton, Ewing, Dream, to today's Yao, Duncan; when you have that big man to throw into and do damage, he can do 2 things: score easily because he's great in the post, or draw double teams and find the open man. The NBA has always looked for these players, they make the game easier for the other players. The ISO crap is nothing more then one player isolating himself at one side of the court and dribbling the hell out of it while the other players camp out on the other side of the court, meanwhile the Rudy T...errrr the head coach will yell "Illegal!" to get a cheap Tech call because this was back in the days of Illegal Defense calls. There was nothing aesthetically pleasing about this style of basketball and was an abomination of the game. It was too bad Rudy T let our basketball team become that style of ball, he selected the players that were good at it and let them run amok. Good riddance to that style of basketball.
i've been a fans since about 1990... unfortunately i lived in utah when malone bearhugged barkley and stockton hit that shot. that sucked. but then utah lost in the finals. and i felt better.
The first thing I really remember as a Rockets fan was swapping Sampson for Sleepy, watching the games on 20 vision and 39 for a season, I believe. The Barkley "era" always had mixed feelings. A large part of the satisfaction of beating his Suns teams was the fact that the Rockets were putting a lid on his big mouth. When he came over there was always a fascination in watching the other team's players react to Barkley. Everybody watched him. Also, during the Barkley years was really the only time the national media included the Rockets as one of the teams they decided to slurp.
not comparing Steve to Dream I am saying that in principle it was the same d*mn offense One - you threw it into the Center - in the middle the other - You had a PG or SG drive it to the middle. OH AND BY THE WAY And Please Watch the Rockets in Hakeem's day Take special notice of the Seattle Series Rudy LIVED ON THE COURT SCREAMING ILLEGAL DEFENSE FOR 'CHEAP TECHs' Do Deny that? the NBA has been a big man's League True enough but please. . .WHO WAS THE BIG MAN ON STEVE'S TEAM??? Pre-Yao??? You wanted to run the Hakeem offense through . . KELVIN CATO?? MO TAYLOR??? KENNY THOMAS?? Please . . . let me know It was more exciting brand of Basketball to me more spectacular plays Rudy got as much out of those teams as possible Here is the main point IMO Steve's team OVER ACHEIVED IMO Rocket River
Funny you skipped KT, Mobley, Yao. Stevie's game never grew. Even with a much upgraded roster during JVG's tenure. His game IQ flatlined as soon as hit he hit the rockets.
Yes, non-Houstonian Texan, but never really felt comfortable with him as a Rocket. I'd spent so much time hating him when he was with Phoenix.
