My greatest memory is his quote "we must fock-ass" <read: focus> Fellow game time chatters, back me up on this one! rockHEAD ------------------ *** THIS SPACE FOR LEASE ***
This is the best topic to make my first post on...the greatest player the Rockets have ever had. There are a lot of memories, but here are my favorite... -of course, the 95 series against the Admiral in which he put Dave Robinson in the "popcorn machine. -Game 1, 1995 Finals vs Orlando. Kenny hit a huge 3 to send it too OT. In the final seconds of OT, Clyde drives but misses the layup and Hakeem is there to tip it in for the win. -Hakeem and Clyde give each other a big hug at midcourt after sweeping Orlando in 95. Those are the best 3 in my opinion. For any of you that post on ESPN Rocket board, I post there as mboss03. ------------------
After we won the second championship and he is high-fiving Clyde. That was a classic sports moment. ------------------ More Losses = More Balls!
LOL, that was classic ROCKhead ------------------ In order to be a success in life, you need 2 things: 1. Don't tell everything you know.
Hakeem Olajuwon is the greatest Center of all time, period. I came to the U.S. from Bosnia in 95 (when I was 14) and have been a huge fan of Hakeem and the Rockets ever since. I got hella posters, books and tapes on Hakeem. He's the greatest, and the reason I started playing b-ball. It makes me sick when anybody says anything bad about the dude. He's a rolemodel like no other. He used to come to the Muslim Mosqe in San Jose, and some of my friends have seen him (I am Muslim also), man did I kick my self in the head for not going that time. I can't describe the pain. But I'm glad that I got somebody like that to look up to. I play point guard, but often use the Dream shake. I remember once jumping like crazy after just a stupid regular season win for the Rockets, my grandma got scared like hell and thought I went insane in the brain or something like that.. Hakeem "the Dream" Olajuwon.. go out and kick their ass one more time, it's been real. ------------------ against all odds
I've spent the last 9 days going over the thousands of possibilities, and found one no one has mentioned. It was a great play not always recognized. One that Akeem the Amazing could not have made in 84, but which Hakeem the Humble could in 94. I THINK it was game 7 against the Knicks. Opening moments. Hakeem has the ball in the low post against Ewing. All the pressure in the world. The Rockets have to start strong and Hakeem knows he needs to play well and outplay Ewing. He starts the Dream Shake, fakes, turns, and -- threads a terrific pass to a streaking Robert Horry for a huge jam over the shell shocked Ewing. Perhaps more than any other play, that one sums up for me the maturity Hakeem had gained, both as a man and a player. There was a time not so long before when Hakeem could not have made the pass at all, much less trusted a teammate enough to try it. ------------------ If you don't remember the ABA, you don't know basketball.
The Western playoffs in '95 made me a fan of basketball. It was so improbable. Also, those Western teams were all underrated because of one Eastern team. Now we know that they were always much better than the Eastern teams with one exception. The Bulls never had the difficult road to the finals that the Rockets did. ------------------
