This is undoubtedly Houston’s biggest “what if” year

27 straight misses still fucks me up

@@kels5193 they turned the magnets in the ball off 🧲

Still haunts me too

bearcatfan1000 nah our biggest what if year was 2009. Yao Ming and T-mac was injuried. We took the lakers to 7 games with Arron brooks, scola, and Ron artest. If we had Yao and tmac we would’ve won lol

Looked like we got our swagger back on defense against the spurs and pels

The defense looking pretty crisp in these Bubble Playoffs too! Perhaps this is the year they win it all?

You should never trade cp3 🤦

@@ace-ub4wz west brick pays off

@@twiss9341 😂 you're funny

If they stayed together they would have won 2019

@@EmelioSmoke You better be joking. 💀

@@jupiterstoneblackeye4563 Why would it be a joke? Warriors were injured all through the playoffs and Raptors beat em 4-2 without their best and then their third best player, plus some important key role players.

@@neckius3002 Because Paul and Harden played the Warriors without KD in 2019 playoffs. They lost....

@@jupiterstoneblackeye4563 they were missing paul as well so the warriors were kd and klay with key roleplayers so I think that is much bigger deficit than just losing kd like last and again take into account yeah the warriors lost kd but the rockets also lost chris so that statement doesnt really make sense.

Uhmm dont act like harden wasnt averaging 30 in dat series 😂

@@Likerios22244 on absolutely garbage efficiency

@@Likerios22244 you saw what he did game 7 he was like 2 for 11

Never forget, someone called chris paul's contract the worst in nba history, then they trade for russ 🙂

@@sofakingonmynuts1438 I wouldn’t say the worst. Hardens was worse as it has hamstrung the cap space maneuvering since 2016 (and has only gone up). The trade for Russ was a terrible one, but this is all par for the course with Daryl Morey.

Also because harden was under the weather this game so it was the CP3 show

@@ikillerz_uya8664 harden just isn't clutch in the playoffs

The lights just get too bright for Harden

im sure harden wasnt happy

@@thabanidube7314 Probably wasn't. That's why he froze him out the next season

To be fair at the time, CP had proven himself injury prone. No one anticipated him changing his diet and carrying a team that was supposed to be tanking to game 7 against his former team, and then taking a young team that hadn't even sniffed the play-offs in years to the fucking Finals. It's arguable all of that came as motivation from getting dumped. It's just unfortunate that had he stayed, I think that Rockets team would have made it to the Finals with Golden State banged up the following year. The whole small ball thing only resulted cuz Russ and Capela couldn't function together.

They lost after leading 3-2 while Durant was injured...that clearly WASN'T a championship team

@@OnPoint88 they were down 2-3. All 6 games were decided by a single possession in the last minute. Cp3 went down in the first series. The kd warriors got blown up after 2019. This was absolutely a championship team. Westbrook was a complete liability on both ends. Get your facts straight

They didn’t blow it up cause of harden problems. Everyone forgets that they didn’t sign back Ariza, he was durants biggest problem, Ariza was the one that kept the team together.

@@fr33zah-34 it was definitely harden's fault. Ariza was overrated af. Luc was way more important. If harden didnt trade cp3 for westbrick they'd have been the favorites to win the west

nah, nba didnt want see them winning. you can check game 7 miss called foul video

Bruuh

i’m giving a note to my future son, and he has to keep it going down in the family until time travel is possible so that my great great great grandson can use future medical technology to donate his hamstring to that man cp3... lol

Especially when you watch the entire video

remember watching that shit live , shit was crazyy!! Cp3 one of the greats. Wish he never went down in the ECF..

Omm

@@jekoriecoley7007 ommm

They would’ve beat the lakers

@@tz6706 beat the lakers what? 🤔 meat? 🤨

It's harden fault because he forced russ to play sg

@@Likerios22244 lol harden is the problem but harden is better passer and play maker than Westbrook , in control and great passing Vision , while Westbrook has low IQ and always forced and squeeze the pass

Nahh he wanted the ball soooo bad

@@kelvinberliano2601 he literally celebrated when the shot went in

yeah. i noticed that he even brought the ball behind his head to change the ball's trajectory. insane

I was watching the Rockets games against the Cavs that year. Look at the game in 2018 in Cleveland. They definitely would have taken the title if it weren't a hamstring =(

Too bad his body gave up like it always did when we thought he would reach the finals. Like in Clippers.

and they still left him wide open lol

Lmao harden was just walking down the court

@@abhinavkrishnan9305 because it was an easy point they didnt need him to run down jus to run back

@@abhinavkrishnan9305 looking back at this chris pul was right if harden dont have the ball he just standing there 😂

I mean, Westbrook carried Harden since December to March with his career high field goal percentage and sacrifice his other stats for win. Ppl can't blame his performance in the bubble, he is late to join and completely miss the team practice for rebuild chemistry due to Covid-19, and he injuries once again in the second game during the return and re-returned when the series is tied at 2-2 , the hugest moment to the team in the whole season, what do u except from a guy like that?

@@lpy1102 Still it was a mistake to think that Harden and Westbrook would be a better duo than Harden and CP

@@unknownuser5645 man as a rockets fan I wish things were like this again. We rlly took cp3 for granted.

@@pyrozendynasty7849 Harden is the problem in Houston

@@deku8910 facts. Facts. Facts. Facts. FACTS.

I question harden's basketball iq sometimes if you watch CP had to wave him off like 3 times. If we didn't see him physically play well off ball in OKC I'd almost say harden has no game instincts.

LMAO are you stupid?! They got rid of CP because they knew he was exiting his prime and wasn't really an All-Star anymore. I don't care what happened in OKC, CP was not a real All-Star after his Clipper days.

@@guesswhonot1620 so they get Westbrook, an all-star right?! Another non closer and they get bounced easily! If CP doesn’t get hurt against the Dubs then they go to the finals. Harden is a wreck ball god, nothing else

@@guesswhonot1620 eating your words now huh

Fr bro look at 0:19 to 0:29 just bitching and moaning walking down the court cause he didn't get the ball, he didn't even get up the court that possession and didn't celebrate on any of CP3s shots instead of the last one🤦🏿‍♂️

@@jft2nd i’m so done with harden in houston... he’s as toxic and as bad a leaderpeople say kyrie irving is

This makes me soo hype for the thunder!!! They’re gonna be the team to beat

And the opposite, harden showing up when Chris Paul disappeared

2nd round exits

@@johnjohn-gt2wz well well well

@@johnjohn-gt2wz well well

Those are 3 of the 6 guys in the nba making at least 40million a year lol rockets would have zero cap space left

Westbrook is SUCH a liability bro

@@the1aj39 Ya we saw him do terrible things in the 2nd round... then again the Rockets were playing against the Lakers, but still. Would you rather ever have CP3 on your team or Russ? Personally I'd have CP3 for a number of reasons over Russ.

@@the1aj39 Typical basketball fans-know nothing about the game. Westbrook is a amazing slasher and Great playmaker- no it’s not stat piling he’s actually good at it. He’s a P&R guard with nobody to play P&R with. By trading Capela they rendered Russ even more obselete than he usually would be. The minute they traded Capela, you should have expect this. If Russ had a Good big man, you’d see him fit in a lot more. And tbh that would help the rockets overall. The team literally Lived and Died by the amount of 3’s they made. Stop blaming Russ for not making his- you knew that what you acquired him. And you didn’t properly equip him to do what he’s done for years with success

@@anthonydeshields9613 I'm not even a Rockets fan lol but I mean yeah if you guys TRADED Capela away to HELP Westbrook and he played like trash when they needed him the most then yeah he's a liability

That's actually how the offense is designed, harden stays in one spot to take away a help defender and as an outlet when shot clock is running down.

If only he knew how to play off-ball, he'll be one of the best sgs of all time

I mean I'm by no means a harden fan but to be fair to him for the last shot he raised his arms in celebration

theres literally nothing to show that at all this is a skip bayless level bad take. playing arm chair psychologist

No he wasn't. He was just letting CP do his thing. He's not that selfish.

And reports are both Westbrook and Harden want out. Crazy how quickly it all crumbled