[Rockets History] 1981 First Round Game 3 (never before seen on YouTube)

I think people who say the game was more beautiful back then are wearing rose colored glasses. The game can be beautiful then and now. The big difference was the game was way more physical and they let those guys scrap for rebounds. No whistle on every contact so the game had so much more pace and fluidity.

Fun to watch Moses, Reid, Dunleavy etc. Wish there was more footage from the 80s and 90s.

 

I used to have hundreds of games on VHS - but got rid of them years ago.....dang it....Oilers games, Rockets games.....Astros games......damnit.

DD

 

back when the nba had credibility and legit upsets could happen. Now the little guy has no chance to win a game like this

 

the game is trash now, mostly because of how the game is called and officiated in the playoffs. The NBA is the only league where a foul is not a foul in the postseason. No other sport has such a thing, their is no "playoff strike in the mlb" no playoff dpi in the nfl"

 

Like, but dislike

 

I agree. Everything wrong with the NBA now has been caused by the league itself.

 

Yeah, but they were all SD, and the quality was so crap, it made it hardly watchable on early HD Flat screens.

DD

 

Thats the nature of 80s and 90s sports footage. Everything nowadays is so digital that kids 40 years from now will be able to watch all of today's games in an archive somewhere but those decades will go down as lost gems.

 

I miss big men that could score in the post.

 

Yeah, it is staggering how poor the quality was, but somehow the tube TV's made them much clearer.

DD

 

if they extended the 3 point line back and got rid of defensive/offensive 3 seconds that would help the game out a lot.