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Memorable Forgettable Rockets Part I: Awesome Names

Discussion in 'Houston Rockets: Game Action & Roster Moves' started by Sweet Lou 4 2, Mar 31, 2010.

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Which name will forever be etched in your memory of forgettable Rockets players?

  1. Goo Kennedy

    6 vote(s)
    2.4%

  2. Slick Watts

    7 vote(s)
    2.8%

  3. Major Jones

    5 vote(s)
    2.0%

  4. Dirk Minniefield

    3 vote(s)
    1.2%

  5. World B. Free

    61 vote(s)
    24.6%

  6. Purvis Short

    4 vote(s)
    1.6%

  7. Sleepy Floyd

    38 vote(s)
    15.3%

  8. Tree Rollins

    10 vote(s)
    4.0%

  9. Sedale Threatt

    11 vote(s)
    4.4%

  10. Moochie Norris

    103 vote(s)
    41.5%
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  1. JCDenton

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    How is Eldridge Recasner not here?
     
    #21 JCDenton, Apr 1, 2010
  2. Sweet Lou 4 2

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    Von Wafer is too easy though...I think he'd win the poll hands down because he's so recent....that's why Moochie is doing so well.

    I had to leave a few off because it only allowed 10...but it would have been better to leave some of the oldies off, and leave short off as he was a star until he got to the Rockets.

    Still, World B. Free has to be the best in my book. I mean, how on earth can you beat that?

    His original name is Lloyd B. Free. He earned the knick name "World" for having a super high vert and playing like a globetrotter. Just so happens that it carried a double meaning.
     
    #22 Sweet Lou 4 2, Apr 1, 2010
  3. Bruce

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    My Vote:

    Zaid Abdul-Aziz
     
    #23 Bruce, Apr 1, 2010
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    Think the thread was ex houston rockets, not Al-Qaeda opperatives
     
    #24 Theking, Apr 1, 2010
  5. Rashmon

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    Wodwick Whodes
     
    #25 Rashmon, Apr 1, 2010
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    You forgot Lester "The Molester" Conner
     
    #26 codell, Apr 1, 2010
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    Granville waiters, Derrick chievous, rhoderick Rhodes, Tim breaux, two samiches(lol-great name though),
     
    #27 monster, Apr 1, 2010
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    DAVE FEITL
     
    #28 The Real Shady, Apr 1, 2010
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    dudes... let's not forget that Popeye Jones was on the roster...
     
    #29 payaso, Apr 1, 2010
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    Not so much awesome, more forgettable...

    Kelvin Cato!
     
    #30 FLASH21, Apr 1, 2010
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    and Pig Miller, with the toothpick, FTW...
     
    #31 payaso, Apr 1, 2010
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    I can't believe no one remembers Alvin Heggs. The guy was a beast for 5 games.
     
    #32 JBIIRockets, Apr 1, 2010
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    World B. Free
     
    #33 GRENDEL, Apr 1, 2010
  14. Sweet Lou 4 2

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    Actually his name is "Granville" which is why I didn't put him on there since I didn't think it was that unusual compared to "World" "Moochie" and such.

    This thread is about Forgettable ROCKETS players - their tenure here, not what they did elsewhere.
     
    #34 Sweet Lou 4 2, Apr 1, 2010
  15. Trackball

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    Aw, man, you took my choice.

    I remember going to a Rockets-Lakers game late in the 1993-94 season (you know, when the Lakers sucked even more than they do now), and got a program that happened to include every number ever worn by a Rockets player, and who wore them.

    Zaid Abdul-Aziz' name really stuck out to me. Must've been all the Zs.

    (Sadly, I lost the program when we moved to our current house.)
     
    #35 Trackball, Apr 1, 2010
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    [​IMG]

    or

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    #36 ansfjs73, Apr 1, 2010
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    Mirsad Turkcan is not amused at the lack of his inclusion in the poll
     
    #37 The_Yoyo, Apr 1, 2010
  18. SamFisher

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    Never actually played for the Rockets.
     
    #38 SamFisher, Apr 1, 2010
  19. Sweet Lou 4 2

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    We got World, Sleepy, and Moochie. You're complaining that Mirsad got left out?

    Why not add Bostjan Nachbar?
     
    #39 Sweet Lou 4 2, Apr 1, 2010
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    Because he was forgotten...until now

    oh BTW, this FTW!
     
    #40 alethios, Apr 1, 2010
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