Harden era for me, even over Hakeem Championship era. I was too young to really understand the game too much in the Dream era, and I ended up listening to a lot of regular season games on the radio as I did not have the ability to watch many games on TV, other than playoffs. The Harden era was the beginning of streaming, I could watch every game online and watch other NBA games with ease and become a bigger fan. The accessibility and being old enough to actually be a fan is what made this era the most fun. Morey had/has his faults and never won a thing, but the mentality of constantly wanting to improve is a mindset I can actually relate to, as a fan we are not happy unless we win it all and the Morey era of always thinking of ways to improve would ease your mind as a fan, that someone smart is trying to improve their chances. Stone has done a mediocre job, but the worst part is his mindset of not wanting to set short term goals to keep expectations low. The whole "don't judge me until 2030", "it may not be our year" (saying this early in the season with KD on your team) this is a weak mentality. This leads to drafting and developing guys like Jalen Green who end up saying "the lights were too bright, my legs were shaking". Then we have KD calling out the betas on a burner account. We have never had that type of weak mentality in all my time watching this team.
80's - The league was toughest, and we were at our best. Only one team came out of the West besides LA, and Boston was always waiting. With all due respect to our Title Teams, those were the best Rockets squads. (the Cocaine Cowboys being the best of all)
I voted TMac Yao just because that was my first team - I would have liked to follow the Hakeem years. Seeing the videos after the fact is less satisfying
I’m partial to the undersized PF era we went through after Yao retired. Getting the 14th pick every year was exciting.
We better ****ing beat the injury Warriors. Throat punch Draymond NOW, we can sacrifice a player against this line up.
Rick Adelman’s 09’ team hands down. Yao, Brooks, Scola, Artest, Battier, Lowry, Landry.. That whole team was full of heart and grit. Would’ve won it all if not for Yao’s injury.
