Watching the "Oh Mother" game right now makes me very very sad and angry. Because I know what happens the next game. That b**** from Utah....!!!! Well that is my worst Rockets moment ever! Whats yours?
The game from last year against the Bulls I think was pretty bad. You know, the one where Jalen Rose made a basket that left his hands about a whole hour after the buzzer went off. That got me VERY ANGRY! Thankfully, I didn't watch basketball when Stockton made that shot.
Then you are a very very lucky man. I mean, I have never seen something so horrible and ugly in my life! Just thinking about it makes me want to poke my eyes out and throw em at that b****!
Stocktons shot definitley. That was one of the worst moments in Houston sports history. After that shot The Summit seemed like a funeral home.
Stockton's shot was the worst feeling in the world. It was like he pulled my heart out and stomped on it over and over again. What's worse is that we were leading by a lot and they came back and beat us.
The Kermit Washington punch on Rudy! Stockton's shot ended a season, Washington's punch basically ended a career!
The Stockton shot, definitely. I only learned about it later, though. Pavement was playing #'s that night, so I decided to go see the show on the theory that the Rockets usually do well when I am not watching. In between sets the game was showed on screens lowered down by the club and there were periodic updates given over the PA. The Rockets lead seemed to go up and down and back up again....seemed like they were going to win..then they showed the game live up until Clyde was going in for the lay-up right before Stockton's game winning shot...theyn the screen went up as Pavement came on stage! We didn't know if they won, or lost until about half way through the show and few cryptic basketball comments from the stage. When I saw the shot it probably took a few years off my life..god, I hate the Jazz. Sorry for this pointless story...
The Stockton shot was the worst moment for me. Malone had that bearhug around Clyde before that shot to help them win.
1993. The Rockets are playing the Spurs in the last game of the regular season. They are up by a point. The Spurs get the ball, and David Robinson tips in the ball almost a full second after the buzzer sounded. The ref (I forget which soulless b*stard it was) calls the shot good. The Rockets end up with the same record as the Sonics, but the Sonics get the tie-breaker. They go on to lose to the Sonics in the second round of the playoffs, four games to three. The home team won every game of that series. That's my second lowest Rockets moment. The worst Rockets moment was in 1996 when the Rox were swept by the Sonics in the playoffs, and I realized that Dream was starting his decline. The party was over.
I was 14 yrs old when Stockton hit that shot, I cried like a baby, sitting on my parents bed, that was so sad
I must be the only guy on this board who thinks the Stockton shot was legit. The Jazz developed a football style of basketball over many years and convinced NBA referees to get used to it. They threw their blocks and ran their plays with perfect execution. We all knew what they were gonna do, and they did it anyway. And it counted for nothing unless the shot went down at the end, which it did. Good riddance to that style of basketball. My worst Rockets moment was watching Shaquille O'Neal butt Hakeem Olajuwon all over the floor and put him on the bench with early foul trouble in every game of the '99 series against the Lakers. That whole series was a painfully drawn-out lesson in the decline of the Rockets and the ascent of the Lakers. To see the great Olajuwon so thoroughly outmatched and humiliated was awful. After that series I just wanted him to retire with the dignity he had left. And he lacked the good judgment to do even that.
Either A) Hugh Evans costing us home court in the '93 playoffs by blowing a call at the end of the last game of the regular season against San Antonio. (we wound up losing to Seattle) -or- B) Allen Leavel @ point guard -or- C) The day Matt Bullard signed AS A FREE AGENT with Charlotte
Almost getting kicked out of the summit with ROckets03 for moving to the lower deck. come on, i mean there were freaking hundreds of seats empty!! oh well, nobody knew me down there
Losing to the Sonics in the secound round of the playoffs(1992-93), in Game 7, in OVERTIME... talk about ripping my heart out and stomping on it... i was the most disheartened teenager on the planet on that day!
1) The day Moses Malone was traded. (My favorite player growing up along with Magic Johnson) 2) The day Hakeem left (anger, hate, sadness... can't even begin to explain it)
malone picking clyde up and moving him to the baseline while pasty nails the 3. then seeing charles face.
The Stockton shot. That's easy. Another horrible Rockets moment was on March 24th, 2001. The Rockets were playing in Seattle. I was watching from row seven. With 30 seconds left, and the Rockets leading by one, Steve Francis drove to the hoop and had a WIDE OPEN layup. He blew it. He just blew a ****ing easy layup. In the next play, Ruben ****ing Patterson hit a hook shot over Mo Taylor to put the Sonics up one. He then went on to block a potential game-winning jumper from Francis, and finished the game off with a dunk. Ruben Patterson pretty much wiped out the Rockets' playoff chances that year. RUBEN PATTERSON!!! Oh, and that 112-82 rout courtesy of Seattle on March 22nd of this year was awful too.
