In the 1992 NBA Draft, the Houston Rockets, who already had Olajuwon and Thorpe's interior combination, unexpectedly selected another player who played as a forward - Robert Horry from the University of Alabama, thus beginning Hory's brilliant and incredible career for 16 years.

In terms of ability, Horry has never been the team's top man in his sixteen-year career, and his career averages of 7.0 points and 4.8 rebounds per game are not very dazzling, but it is incredible that in Horry's sixteen-year career, the four teams he played for have reached the playoffs every year, and at least reached the second round, and Maddie has been crying and fainting in the hut after many years - this is not luck, Horry is such a magic, from his nickname "Big Man Horry" It can be seen that whenever the game reaches the most critical moment, Horry can always stand up and change the trend of the game in his own way, or snatch a rebound as precious as gold in the siege of several people, or send a stunning pass, or personally handle it, hit an incredible three-pointer, and Horry has done all these things.

In the 1992-1993 season, the Rockets reached the playoffs, the first opponent was the Los Angeles Clippers, compared to the Clippers of that year, the Clippers were not the opponents of the Rockets at all, Alonzo Mourning was still a rookie, Ron Harbour was already at the end of his prime, and the only thing that the whole team could rely on was Mark Jackson, who had a good passing skill but limited offensive ability, yes, it was the former head coach of the Warriors, Steve Kerr's predecessor, in the playoffs, Olajuwon taught Mourning a good lesson for the first time in the league, averaging 29.2 points, 15.2 rebounds, 4.8 assists, 5.8 blocks, 1.8 steals and shooting 51.4% per game in five games, such a performance completely blew Mourning into scum, the latter's statistics are "only" 18.2 points, 7.2 rebounds, 1.6 assists, 1.0 blocks, 1.4 steals, and a shooting rate of 41.2%, except for Olajuwon, the other players of the Rockets performed decently, Current Thunder head coach Scott Brooks was part of that Rockets team that year, and he was a first-year member of the team as a bench, averaging 4.8 points and 3.4 assists in 21 minutes per game in the playoffs. Olajuwon led a hard-fought victory over the Clippers and stood on the floor of the second round of the playoffs for the first time in nearly seven years.

The team standing opposite the Rockets is their old rival, the Seattle SuperSonics, previously, the Rockets suffered three times in the playoffs, all of them lost, and they were regarded as the Rockets' nemesis.

At that time, the coach of the Trail Blazers was a famous coach at the NBA historical level, George Karl, Karl's coaching style has never changed for 20 years, that is, the inside line makes a group of physically gifted muscles ** to encircle and suppress the opponent, it doesn't matter if the technique is rough, the important thing is not to be afraid of death, the outside line gets two rockets to hit the bird at any time, whether you have a shot first, it doesn't matter if you can't play, the "half-orc" grabs the board, grabs the rebound and passes a long pass to the guard near the middle line, and the guard makes a long pass to the half-orc again, sometimes just four or five seconds, They've already done a quick break.

This is the case with the supersonic speed of that era, the outside line is the NBA famous gun Sam Cassel and Gary Payton, the former comes with a sniper scope, the latter comes with a defensive bonus attribute, the inside line has Sean Kemp, Ricky Pierce, Derrick McKay and other macho men, of course, there is also Nate McMillan, who later became a famous coach, at that time McMillan was not as swollen as when he was a head coach later, in the face of the Rockets, the supersonic style of play is to resolutely wrap Olajuwon, when Olajuwon passes the outside line, The agile orcs were able to move quickly to the perimeter and use their height to press the Rockets' three-point shooting percentage. In all fairness, Olajuwon's strength is not good enough in comparison, the inside line can't push Camp at all, the most important thing is that Camp can jump, and the ability to jump continuously is very strong, Olajuwon's feint just shook Camp away, and the next action Camp will still jump up and block, and jump higher than the last time.

This configuration and style of play of the supersonic makes the Rockets very uncomfortable, and at the same time, the shooting rate of the Rockets' outside shooter group has also declined, especially the "madman" Maxwell, who scored 15.7 points in the whole series while shooting only 42.4% and 24.3% of three-point shooting, such a performance obviously cannot give Olajuwon more support, on the contrary, the superSonics are all soldiers, and all the players on the court can contribute to the team by relying on their impact and passion, and the series is over, Ten players on the SuperSonics team are averaging more than 5 points per game, while the Rockets only have the starting five Tigers scoring more than 5 points, and the Rockets are 3:4 again.

In 1993, a major event happened in the NBA, the "God of Basketball" Michael Jordan's father was shot dead by unknown people, Jordan was grief-stricken, and decided to fulfill his father's last wish - as a baseball player standing on the stage of the professional arena, and at this time, Jordan had just led the Chicago Bulls to complete the great cause of three consecutive championships, all the awards, trophies, and honors were won all over again, basketball for him, there was no desire, so Jordan, who was at his peak, suddenly announced his retirement to play baseball, The decision gave hope to a plethora of championship-hungry players in the league.

This year's Rockets' lineup is basically the same as last year's, Olajuwon, Thorpe, Maxwell, Kenny Smith, and Robert Horry, a sophomore, two new players have been added, in 1993, in the draft, a point guard named Sam Cassel with an extremely ugly appearance was selected with the No. 24 pick in the first round, and Mario Aley, who was kicked to the Rockets by the Trail Blazers, this season's Rockets players are in surprisingly good shape, Olajuwon averaged 27.3 points, 12 rebounds and 3.7 blocks per game, and Thorpe was able to contribute 15+10 per game consistently, and the Rockets won a team-record 58 games this season and reached the playoffs again.

In the first round, the Rockets led by Olajuwon faced the Trail Blazers led by Olajuwon's teammate Clyde Drexler in college, and the Trail Blazers, who won weakly, were obviously not the opponents of the Rockets, and easily advanced 3:1, Olajuwon once again broke the Trail Blazers' interior line, averaging 34 points, 11 rebounds and 3.8 blocks per game in this round of the series, shooting as high as 50%! It is worth mentioning that Robert Horry, a sophomore, has shown the potential to play the best role in this series, averaging 15 points, 4.8 rebounds and 4.5 assists, 1.1 steals and 1.5 blocks per game, shooting nearly 60% from the field and 50% from three-point range! He has shared a lot of heavy responsibilities for Olajuwon on the offensive end.

But in the second round of the playoffs, facing Charles Barkley's Phoenix Suns, Olajuwon had great difficulty. At that time, the Suns had "flying pig" Charles Barkley, Barkley's style of play was not the same style as Olajuwon, he just relied on his huge ass to arch - arch - arch inside, the opponent sandwiched, passed to the outside, three points, no pinching, continued arch-arch-arch, arched to the basket, either turned around to play the board, or a small hook, he relied on his big ass to average 25 points and 11 rebounds per game, the outside line is Kevin Johnson, who averaged 20+10 per game this season, and the front line is an average of 19 points per game, Cedric Ceballos, who has 6.5 rebounds, and Dan Marley, a defensive tough guy nicknamed "Thunder Gong", who averages 16.5 points per game, and the most famous iron man in history, AC Green. There is offense, defense, focus, and tactics, and the Suns showed the potential of a championship-caliber team that year, and of course, who of the two teams can have the last laugh ultimately depends on the matchup between Olajuwon and Barkley!

In the first game, the Rockets except for Olajuwon, everyone else played unsatisfactory, Kenny Smith shot 2 of 7 from beyond the three-point line, Thorpe only grabbed 7 rebounds in the whole game, Horry only hit 5 of 13 shots, and Maxwell only scored 3 points on 1 of 9 shots! However, the Suns' Barkley also did not play well, hitting only 8 of 21 shots, scoring 21 points and 12 rebounds, but Kevin Johnson scored 20 points and handed out 12 assists, and Olajuwon became the lone hero of the Rockets! He hit 16 of his 24 shots from the field, scoring 36 points and 16 rebounds to completely dominate the interior, but still couldn't prevent his team from losing 87-91 to the Suns.

In the second game, Barkley broke out strongly, hitting 12 of 18 shots, scoring 34 points, 15 rebounds and 6 assists! Kevin Johnson and Dan Marley combined for 49 points! On the Rockets' side, Olajuwon continued to perform strongly, 31 points, 17 rebounds and 3 blocks, Thorpe tried his best to defend Barkley, but Barkley was too strong tonight, six fouls at the last moment, the Rockets' outside line was inaccurate again, Kenny Smith shot 6 of 14, Maxwell shot 6 of 18, Hawley shot 4 of 12, Kassel shot 4 of 11, and other players only shot 6 times in total, and the Rockets lost again 117:124.

In the third game, Barkley fell into a slump again under Thorpe's strong defense, hitting only 9 of 22 shots, scoring 18 points and 14 rebounds, and did not make even one free throw in the whole game, but Kevin Johnson on the outside broke out, scoring 38 points on 12-of-25 shooting and handed out 12 assists, and on the Rockets' side, Olajuwon scored 26 points and 15 rebounds on 11-of-17 shooting, 6 assists and 6 blocks, but the hero of the game was not him, It's the "madman Max" who hit 14 of his 24 shots and scored 34 points crazily! The Rockets defeated the Suns 118-102, chasing the big score to 2:1, behind the "Mad Max", there is actually an invisible hero, he is Sam Cassel, who scored 12 points and handed out 10 assists in just 27 minutes on the court, and the "alien" at this time has begun to have the potential of a high-quality point guard.

Game 4 was crucial for the Rockets, there are only a handful of teams in history who have won 3-1, they didn't want to make such history, they wanted to stand on the floor of the Compaq Center with a score of 2-2, and in the end, they did! This game is a remake of the previous game for the Suns, Barkley played poorly, hitting 7 of 21 shots to get 19 points and 14 rebounds, Kevin Johnson made crazy shots all over the court to hit 15 of 31 shots and got 38 points and sent 12 assists, but everyone else didn't score double-doubles, Olajuwon on the Rockets side is still the mainstay of the team, hitting 14 of 23 shots to get 28 points, 12 rebounds, 8 assists and 5 blocks, Kenny Smith played an incredibly efficient game, playing just 28 minutes and scoring 21 points on 8-of-10 shooting, while Thorpe successfully restrained Barkley while handing over a solid double-double of 5-of-8 shooting, 12 points and 13 rebounds.

This round of the series is a duel between two great teams, the previous games were all until the last second to determine the winner, the fifth crucial battle of Tianwang Mountain, no one wants to lose, the game process must be a needle point in everyone's imagination, but to the surprise, the rocket 109:86 beat the sun by 23 points! In this game, the Rockets played extremely evenly, reasonably distributed the ball, and reduced the pressure on the big dream at both ends of the offensive and defensive ends, and finally Olajuwon and Thorpe combined to score 40 points and 19 rebounds, Kenny Smith shot 5 of 8 and scored 16 points, Mario Ailey stood up on the bench, played 23 minutes, scored 10 points, the Rockets had 11 more rebounds than the Suns, and 11 more assists, and the consequence of a reasonable rotation was that the Rockets shot as high as 52% of the whole team, while the Suns were less than 40%! The Rockets gave Barkley a taste of a lone hero, although the "flying pig" scored 30 points on 14-of-25 shooting, but everyone else's play reached an outrageous level, the first few tepid Ceballos scored 11 points on 5-of-12 shooting in this game, Kevin Johnson's good luck was left in the last game, and this game was 4-of-13 shooting, only 11 points, Dan Marley 0-of-6, the whole game did not score a point......

Even the greatest planner in the world could not have imagined that only two days later, the state of the two teams was completely reversed, and the Rockets lost to the Suns 89:103! Although Olajuwon scored 23 points, 12 rebounds and 5 assists on 9-of-12 shooting, the team's outside line once again turned into a "giant pit" Horry shot 5-of-11, Smith shot 3-of-11, Maxwell shot just 2-of-10, Kassel shot 3-of-10, and the Suns' three role players became wonders, AC Green hit 9-of-10 shots, scored 22 points and 10 rebounds, Joe Kline scored 15 points, and Danny Ainge scored 13 points.

In the end, the two teams came to the tiebreaker with a score of 3-3, and whether to go home or advance is all determined by the performance of each player in these 48 minutes, in the first quarter of the game, the Rockets took the lead 33:21, and the Suns played 26:20 in the second quarter to catch up, this game is completely a championship-level game, and the final result is known to everyone, the Rockets have the last laugh, the score is 104:94, and the Suns' substitute Danny Ainge played the best game of the series, He scored 18 points on 6-of-12 shooting, while Barkley's stats were "only" 9-of-19 shooting, 24 points, 15 rebounds, 4 assists and 3 steals, and the Rockets didn't play well from the outside, Maxwell shot 5-of-14 and Smith shot 2-of-8, but Hawley and Cassel played extremely well, the former scored 15 points on 5-of-7 shooting, the latter scored 22 points on 8-of-12 shooting, in addition to 4 rebounds and 7 assists. Olajuwon, on the other hand, dominated the game completely, scoring 37 points on 18-of-33 shooting, grabbing 17 rebounds, diching out five assists and three blocks.

The Rockets stepped on the corpse of the Suns and stepped into the Western Conference Finals with difficulty, and their opponent was the Utah Jazz who killed the Spurs first and then the Nuggets. But the Jazz have a fatal flaw is that despite the great lethality of the Utah duo, the rest of the role players are really limited in their help to the two, and in this series, except for Stockton, Karl Malone, and Jeff Hornacek (current Suns head coach), none of the rest can score double-doubles! In the key position matchup between the two teams, Karl Malone averaged 26 points and 12.6 rebounds per game, but shot only 43.3%, while Olajuwon scored 27.8 points, 10.2 rebounds, and shot 50.2% from the field! After five games, the Rockets eliminated the Jazz, and most importantly, in these five games, the Rockets' role players exploded in turns! In the first game, Horry desperately grabbed 5 frontcourt rebounds, Cassel played 18 minutes, scored 9 points and 7 assists, in the second game, the Trail Blazers abandoned Mario Ailey to score 17 points, and in the third game, the Wonder Soldier was Cassel, who scored 14 points and handed out 4 assists, and in the fourth game, the Wonder Soldier was still Cassel, who played 17 minutes and scored 10 points on 3-of-6 shooting, and in the fifth game, Hawley scored 22 points, 9 rebounds and 3 assists on 8-of-13 shooting.

In this way, after 1986, the Rockets once again stood on the stage of the Finals, and their opponent was the New York Knicks led by Patrick Ewing, known as Olajuwon's lifelong enemy.

Time seems to go back to 1984, that year, Ewing's Georgetown University and Olajuwon's University of Houston stood on the stage of the NCAA Finals, the data of that game is no longer available, but "it is said" Olajuwon only scored 10 points in the whole game under Ewing's defense, Ewing scored not much, 15 points, but it was enough to lead the team to win, after that game, Olajuwon participated in the NBA draft, therefore, he did not have an NCAA championship ring, This incident made Olajuwon regret for the rest of his life, but it may be more regrettable for Ewing, who never got an NBA championship ring in his life.

Olajuwon and Ewing are actually very good friends off the court, but as long as they step on the floor of the game, the two will not be humble to each other, they will use all kinds of pushing, all kinds of trash talk, and so on to ensure their advantage, because they both understand that the best respect for each other is to play without reservation and go all out, and the relationship between the two of them is like Chamberlain and Russell, Bird and Johnson, Jordan and Barkley, and even Kobe and James.

This year's Knicks are in the best form of players, Ewing averages 25 points and 11 rebounds per game, guard John Starks averages 19 points and 6 assists per game, and power forward Charles Oakley averages 12 points and 12 rebounds per game The double-double data, Ewing and Oakley are very good at defending the interior, which will undoubtedly increase the difficulty of Olajuwon scoring goals, this is destined to be a series that will go down in history!