Clyde's natural position was #2 guard. That's the main reason Mcgrady starts at the 3 for me. Loved Clyde as a player...as an announcer...not so much.
Dream, Ralph, Clyde, Harden, CP3 CP3 is just to good to leave off the list with twin towers Clyde and Harden. Come on this is best of Rocket basketball.
Dream, Moses, Clyde, Harden, CP3 I'll put Moses at the 5 and Dream at the 4 since he is more versatile.
PG Magic Johnson SG Jerry West C Wilt Chamberlain PF Kareem Abdul Jabbar SF Kobe Bryant Bench Shaquille O'Neal Elgin Baylor Gail Goodrich James Worthy Michael Cooper George Mikan Jamaal Wilkes Karl Malone Gary Payton
1 inch height difference between them. Clyde averaged more rebounds, assists, and points per game for career and had a much better FG% than McGrady as well. Even past his prime Clyde rejuvenated the Rockets team when he came to Rockets as a trade. He is the big reason the Rockets were even in the 95 playoffs after Hakeem missed games. He is a big reason we beat Utah Jazz in final game of the first round series in Utah. We were down with a few minutes to go and he was grabbing rebounds and running fast breaks. He is a big reason we won game 7 in Phoenix. We were down in double digits in second quarter and he ignited the team. He is the big reason we crushed and swept the Magic in the finals. Magic had no answer to his one man fast breaks. The young athletes of Magic could not keep up with an old man Clyde. And when he was young and before his knee surgery, he took the Trailblazers to the Finals. Twice. Clyde never missed the playoffs in 15 years (I believe) but more importantly managed to drag his teams out of the first rounds. The guy was a fierce competitor and didn't shrink under pressure, which is the very opposite of McGrady. And unless Clyde is being asked to announce while playing, not sure why his announcing skills matter anyways. Besides, we don't even want to go into the number of stupid things Mcgrady has said over his career in front of a camera and made a complete fool of himself. I am sorry but if you want to build the best team with the object of winning, I don't see why you would want to take McGrady over Clyde.
I'd say a player needs to have played for the team for at least 3 years to qualify. PG - Harden SG - Drexler SF - McGrady PF - Barkley C - Olajuwon Bench: Calvin Robert Reid Moses Elvin Rudy Otis Yao Horry Rodney McCray Kenny Smiff I picked what I think is the best starting 5. The bench has a couple of players that are great role players and not necessarily the most productive. Horry is on the team for this reason, he provides a stretch 4, Kenny Smiff provides 3-point shooting and ball handling. Otis would make a great small-ball 5.
Have you ever heard of this guy named Moses Malone? He won TWO MVP awards while with Rockets (three total). So when spew "come on this is the best of Rocket basketball" it's very apparent that you have NO idea what you're talking about.
Dude. People think Tupac is old school now. You have to realize that Rockets History, especially pre Les Alexander days, have been purposely erased from the modern world.
PG Chris Paul SG Clyde Drexler SF Rudy Tomjanovich PF Hakeem Olajuwon C Moses Malone 6th Man James Harden Hakeem and Moses are centers, but I couldn't leave either of them out. Hakeem is the best Houston Rocket, Moses is the 2nd best.
McGrady had a true shooting percentage of less than 50 percent while he was a rocket. Almost any above average NBA player could do what McGrady does if you allowed them to take over 20 shots a game.
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Are we talking about the players' time on their team? Or their overall career/at their peak? Malone and Payton were a shell of their former selves when they were in the Lakers. If you just included their time in that team, they wouldn't come close to making the all time Lakers team. You could make the same argument for Barkley although not to the same extent. Drexler, while still very good for us, clearly had his best, prime years in Portland. He would undoubtedly still be on our all time team, but that's the only reason there is possibly even a debate about whether he would be a starter or not. Even McGrady. You could argue he had better, less injury prone years in Orlando
I threw them in at the bottom as an afterthought. Remove them and I'm still taking the Lakers over the Rockets all time
