1994–95 Houston Rockets season

1994–95 Houston Rockets season
Second NBA Championship
Head coach Rudy Tomjanovich
Owner(s) Leslie Alexander
Arena Compaq Center
Results
Record 47–35 (.573)
Place Division: 3rd (Midwest)
Conference: 6th (Western)
Playoff finish NBA Champions
Stats @ Basketball-Reference.com
Houston Rockets seasons
< 1993–94 1995–96 >

The Houston Rockets won their second NBA title in franchise history.

Contents

Offseason

NBA Draft

Round Pick Player Position Nationality School/Club Team
2 53 Albert Burditt Forward  United States Texas

Roster

Depth chart

Pos. Starter Bench Reserve Inactive
C Hakeem Olajuwon Charles Jones Žan Tabak
PF Robert Horry Pete Chilcutt
SF Clyde Drexler Chucky Brown Carl Herrera Tim Breaux
Tracy Murray
SG Mario Elie Vernon Maxwell
PG Kenny Smith Sam Cassell

Regular season

Season standings

Midwest Division W L PCT GB Home Road Div
y-San Antonio Spurs 62 20 .756 — 33–8 29–12 20–6
x-Utah Jazz 60 22 .732 2 33–8 27–14 17–9
x-Houston Rockets 47 35 .573 15 25–16 22–19 13–13
x-Denver Nuggets 41 41 .500 21 23–18 18–23 13–13
Dallas Mavericks 36 46 .439 26 19–22 17–24 11–15
Minnesota Timberwolves 21 61 .256 41 13–28 8–33 4–22

[1]

Player stats

Legend
  GP Games played   GS  Games started  MPG  Minutes per game
 FG%  Field-goal percentage  3P%  3-point field-goal percentage  FT%  Free-throw percentage
 RPG  Rebounds per game  APG  Assists per game  SPG  Steals per game
 BPG  Blocks per game  PPG  Points per game

Regular season

Player GP GS MPG FG% 3P% FT% RPG APG SPG BPG PPG
Tim Breaux 42 2 8.1 .372 .240 .653 .8 .4 .26 .10 3.0
Scott Brooks 28 0 6.6 .538 .471 .857 .5 .8 .29 .04 3.4
Chucky Brown 41 14 19.9 .603 .333 .613 4.6 .7 .27 .34 6.1
Adrian Caldwell 7 0 4.3 .250 .000 .500 1.4 .0 .14 .00 .7
Sam Cassell 82 1 23.0 .427 .330 .843 2.6 4.9 1.15 .17 9.5
Pete Chilcutt 68 17 19.8 .445 .407 .738 4.7 1.0 .37 .63 5.3
Clyde Drexler 35 34 37.1 .506 .357 .809 7.0 4.4 1.77 .66 21.4
Mario Elie 81 13 23.4 .499 .398 .842 2.4 2.3 .80 .15 8.8
Carl Herrera 61 26 21.8 .523 .000 .624 4.6 .7 .66 .62 6.8
Robert Horry 64 61 32.4 .447 .379 .761 5.1 3.4 1.47 1.19 10.2
Charles Jones 3 0 12.0 .333 .000 .500 2.3 .0 .00 .33 1.0
Vernon Maxwell 64 54 31.8 .394 .324 .688 2.6 4.3 1.17 .20 13.3
Tracy Murray 25 0 8.1 .400 .422 .625 .9 .2 .28 .12 3.5
Hakeem Olajuwon 72 72 39.6 .517 .188 .756 10.8 3.5 1.85 3.36 27.8
Kenny Smith 81 81 25.1 .484 .429 .851 1.9 4.0 .88 .12 10.4
Žan Tabak 37 0 4.9 .453 .000 .614 1.5 .1 .05 .19 2.0
Otis Thorpe 36 35 33.0 .563 .000 .528 8.9 1.6 .61 .36 13.3

Playoffs

Player GP GS MPG FG% 3P% FT% RPG APG SPG BPG PPG
Chucky Brown 21 15.5 .447 .500 .676 3.1 .3 .43 .10 4.5
Sam Cassell 22 22.0 .438 .400 .835 1.9 4.0 .95 .09 11.0
Pete Chilcutt 20 16.2 .484 .389 .824 2.9 .9 .35 .20 4.5
Clyde Drexler 22 38.6 .481 .303 .786 7.0 5.0 1.50 .68 20.5
Mario Elie 22 28.9 .504 .431 .795 2.8 2.5 .95 .05 9.1
Carl Herrera 1 6.0 1.000 .000 .000 .0 1.0 .00 .00 2.0
Robert Horry 22 38.2 .445 .400 .744 7.0 3.5 1.45 1.18 13.1
Charles Jones 19 12.5 .385 .000 .333 2.3 .0 .21 .53 .7
Vernon Maxwell 1 16.0 .143 .000 1.000 3.0 1.0 .00 .00 3.0
Hakeem Olajuwon 22 42.2 .531 .500 .681 10.3 4.5 1.18 2.82 33.0
Kenny Smith 22 29.6 .438 .442 .900 2.2 4.5 .64 .14 10.8
Žan Tabak 8 3.9 .400 .000 1.000 .1 .1 .12 .38 .8

NBA finals

1995 NBA Finals Roster

Head Coach: Rudy Tomjanovich
Hakeem Olajuwon | Clyde Drexler | Kenny Smith | Robert Horry | Sam Cassell | Mario Elie | Carl Herrera | Vernon Maxwell | Chucky Brown | Pete Chilcutt | Tracy Murray | Tim Breaux | Zan Tabak | Charles Jones | Adrian Caldwell |

Olajuwon vs. O'Neal

Although both centers played well, Olajuwon is generally considered to have outplayed O'Neal. Olajuwon outscored O'Neal in every game of the series and became one of the few players in NBA history to score at least 30 points in every game of an NBA Finals series:[2][3]

1995 NBA Finals Gm 1 Gm 2 Gm 3 Gm 4 Totals
Hakeem Olajuwon 31 34 31 35 32.8 ppg
Shaquille O'Neal 26 33 28 25 28.0 ppg

By winning his second straight NBA Finals MVP award, Hakeem Olajuwon became the sixth player to win the award on multiple occasions, joining Willis Reed, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Magic Johnson, Larry Bird and Michael Jordan. Jordan and Olajuwon at the time were the only players to win the award consecutively. Later, O'Neal himself would go on to win the award in three consecutive seasons with the Lakers (2000-02).

Series Summary

Game Date Home Team Result Road Team
Game 1 June 7 Orlando 118-120 Houston
Game 2 June 9 Orlando 106-117 Houston
Game 3 June 11 Houston 106-103 Orlando
Game 4 June 14 Houston 113-101 Orlando

Rockets win series 4-0

Award winners

NBA All-Star Game

References

  1. ^ 1994-95 NBA Season Summary - Basketball-Reference.com
  2. ^ History of the NBA Finals: Hakeem Olajuwon: The NBA’s Best In The Mid ’90s, hollywoodsportsbook.com, accessed February 16, 2007.
  3. ^ NBA Finals Records, Basketball.com, accessed February 16, 2007.
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