washington wants manu for the 5th pick

[baseline bum]

16.5 PPG, 9.8 RB, 2.0 BPG. The next season 18.9 PPG, 9.6 RB, 2.5 BPG. David Robinson won 2 Championships after his numbers had "dwindled" to those levels. Without the heart problems (and if Scottie Pippen hadn't taken a vacation on the Rockets payroll) Hakeem might have won at least one more, too.

I watched almost every Rocket game that season (I lived in Houston at the time), and Pippen absolutely was not the problem. The problem was that Olajuwon and Barkley took turns holding the ball 10-15 seconds every possession (no exaggeration). Pippen mostly got the ball when there was 3-5 seconds left on the shot clock and thus was forced into shooting bad desperation jumpers all game long. It was maybe the ugliest offense I have ever seen. No way you can put that season on Pippen; anyone who would didn't see that team play.

[jimo2305]

we could get ricky rubio with that pick

[romain.star]

[Mal]

we could get ricky rubio with that pick

We already have one of best PG in league, who is young enough.

[Thompson]

we could get ricky rubio with that pick

A promising European with a monstrous buyout. Great.

[Bukefal]

We dont need Rubio. Id rather have someone else.

[Russ]

Firstly The season that Pippen Played with Charles and Hakeem was the 98-99 season.. and Hakeem average almost 19 a game in the Strike Shortened season... Secondly the Rockets finished 31-19..not bad...the in fighting came to a head in the playoffs

The season That Hakeem averaged 16 a game KEVIN WILLIS was the leading scorer of that team Then Barkley and them Clyde because Hakeem Got injured

Remember They had two solid season of Clyde HAkeem and Barley and still didn't win rings... so Pippen wasn't gonna change things dramatically in 98-99... it just came down to barkley not respecting Pippen and nobody being enough of a LEADER to squash it... Hakeem and RUDY T...


Finley Spurs SHOULD shop Manu around and ARE doing it..

if you don't believe that....

Freudian slip?

[vander]

we need to do this,
Then trade down for multiple 1st round picks, this year or this and next year, no matter. we just need to get some young prospects out there, and there's nothing that interesting at 5 IMO, unless we could somehow move up for Thabeet, but that ain't likely. a couple mid to late round SF/SG's would do this team good; especially if we keep Gooden around and Mahimni makes an impact.