Question for the old timers here

Kenny Smith was a journeyman scrub, but he was OUR journeyman scrub who fought minutes against a rookie and white boys who could shoot threes. Always the mismatch on paper (Stockton, KJ, Payton, Penny) but they showed heart and hustle.

There must be dirty laundry buried deep in Houston for Kenny to sell out this bad.

 

I have it on VHS somewhere, white suburban and all.

 

I resent that.

 

This. Having never won a championship (not counting the AFL Oilers) it seemed like Houston was jinxed and never would win one.

Also, being 20 years older I don't live and die as much with my sports teams as I used to. Just part of getting older and wiser. It really used to tear me up, not as much any more.

But on the other side of the coin, back then I had season tickets. I never get as nervous when I am at the game as I do watching on tv, not sure why ...

 

What I would do now to have Reggie Miller keep quiet for an entire 2nd half...

 

You're an old timer because.... your'e an old timer. I have been following the Rockets since they came here from San Diego. Gone to games before there was a Summit or Toyota Center.

 

You have no idea lol

 

It was way more nerve racking.

Last night was really the first time my heart was really racing, to the extent that after Klay missed that shot I realized how much my heart was racing, certainly in these playoffs.

Back in the day, it was basically just an every game occurrence, seemingly.
One could list so so so many games.

Heck, even before the championships. Game 7 against the Sonics in 92-93 was an intense a Rockets game as I can remember, and I'm still pissed about. F'ing George Karl's illegal defense!!!

 

No we are old as hell.... when was the last time you plowed an 18 year old at full speed for 30 mins straight... we're old as dirt.

 

Now we have Green sitting in the paint for 10 seconds not guarding anyone! I’m not sure why more teams don’t use this strategy. Illegal D and defensive 3 seconds rarely get called.

 

You are exactly like my wife watching a horror movie.

 

I used to have VHS copies of a bunch of those Finals games. I don't know what happened to them. Not that I have a VCR to play them on anyway.

 

The OJ chase was extremely annoying at the time. But looking back, it actually added to the memorableness of the championship run. That's some story we can tell our grand kids.