Rich Kelley/Billy Paultz highlights Jazz-Rockets Game 5 1985

[@rosrebel]

Great to see this kind of footage ..otherwise good players get forgotten ..

[@redfanrod]

The Whopper's strategy against Akeem worked in this game. Akeem (or Hakeem) is one of my favorite players but there was no excuse for the punch to Paultz. The Jazz pulled it off. Rich Kelley and Whopper - two very productive NBA players (add the ABA for Paultz). 🏀

[@unappealingundesirable2826]

6:30 Number 33 is Frederick Clark Roberts, AKA George McFly!

[@kevinblanch]

as the great hot rod called him the WHOOPER i will never forget this game FRANK replaces ALL THE STARTERS i had season tickets in those days for the JAZZ in the GREAT OLD SALT PALACE $240 for the YEAR

[@pmsfar-outgrooviness8025]

wow, that must have been great!

[@MrArthurlandry]

loved billy paultz and this was on of his last games

[@pmsfar-outgrooviness8025]

yes he only played twice in the Denver series

[@manny4552]

Good player

[@Bart848]

Paultz was a rocket on the 81 team that went to the finals

[@TUFF-TJ]

I just looked at his stats and realized that he and his teams never missed the playoffs in any of his 15 seasons, that's actually pretty impressive when you think about it

[@unappealingundesirable2826]

I was born in Seattle in 1973, where I grew up. Sonics and Blazers fan. Japanese-American. I HATED how Rich Kelley KILLED the Blazers and Sonics! But, I think he deserved to be an All-Star with New Orleans, when he averaged 15 points, 12 rebounds and 2 blocks one season. I have a SUNS 53 KELLEY jersey. Richard Ryland Kelley.

[@the_Sage71]

Paultz and Kelly. Talking about one of the greatest matchups NBA history. It's gets no better.

[@Bart848]

8:10 the slap

[@oldsensei8350]

I'm ever watching all these guys a lot of great players good teams

[@rosrebel]

Some real basketball ...

[@alecsanderhamilton9224]

Stockton Paultz and Kelley won this game vs Houston

[@unappealingundesirable2826]

Mark Eaton is deceased.

[@zobi9745]

The flopper understood the assignment

[@alecsanderhamilton9224]

Their 84-85 defeat to Jazz is worse than Jordan losing to Milwaukee or Boston from 85-87... This was no excuse... In all honesty the Twin Towers 🗼🗼 gave up two series they had little business losing... 84-85 to Utah, 86-87 to Seattle... I still can't make sense how they lost these series'.... Veteran composure of the Jazz? Depth of the 87 Sonics? Can u describe the truest factors in depth? Hakeem played extremely well in most of these games and I don't believe had clutch failures outside of the punch of Paultz in this series and his rookie year free throw shooting woes... 86 he stepped up hugely vs Los Angeles and took over the series from Game 2 forward and Sampson pressed on firmly alongside him... He played valiantly vs Boston in 86 Finals and Sampson had his ups and downs... Some very strong moments even for Sampson in that series... Vs the Nuggets and Kings and Blazers I'm guessing Hakeem and co. we're comfortable around Hakeem's leadership to gel behind his strong and confident performance... But what did namely Seattle in 87 do to avoid the loss to Houston of 86-87... Houston was the better team no? They had the experience, the players, Sampson and Hakeem still even if Sampson was at his crossroads... Sonics head coach I know was applauded for his management of the 87 Sonics roster during the playoffs and vs Houston. I'm rewatching the Hakeem era closely these days. Trying to familiarize myself with his career as much as I was comfortable with Jordan, Ewing and Barkley's career trajectories and primes and team circumstances and playoff opponents, rivalries and their big games and clutch moments and weaknesses and regular season storylines and momentum shifts. Not that the Jazz didn't have a low key good roster... Dantley, Green, Griffith, Eaton, Bailey, Stockton... They had scorers in Dantley (a league leading scorer along with Wilkins, Bird, Aguirre, King, English some of the best SF's scoring forward wing power forwards to ever play and some of the greatest scorers ever) Griffith (an excitable offensive player along the likes of future Stockton running mates Hornacek and Jeff Malone) Green could defense and make plays like his contemporary point guards Dennis Johnson, Maurice Cheeks, Norm Nixon, Nate McMillan, Fat Lever etc.) Eaton is an all time shot blocker (Hakeem should have had his 1989 DPOY 🏆 but oh well) and Bailey was a long version of James Worthy, alot like a softer gamed Buck Williams or an inside Clifford Robinson, or offensive minded Horace Grant, or Cedric Maxwell or Robert Horry before the death of the mid range game in the NBA. Utah had a quality franchise before Stockton and Malone arrived they were simply the pinnacle and longest fabric used to make that 20-25 year stretch run as long as it did but the fabrics were beginning to assemble quite nicely even before the Stockton and Malone combo helped kept it threading for as long as it did. 83-84 thru 85-86 the Jazz played in two semifinals rounds in 84 and 85, 86 they lost first round with a tag team Bailey, Dantley and Malone forward triplet unit... And 87 they readjusted again around Karl Malone and Bailey and 88 Stockton and Malone was very real... And of course they made the semifinal again before reverting back to zero in 89 & 90 and then their golden age of the Stockton and Malone era began round 91 into 92... Coincidentally when Magic Johnson left as well to give space to the other dominant point guards in the league.

[@TL2354]

Jesus Christ. Get a life

[@coltruiz7126]

Pre Karl Malone era

[@alecsanderhamilton9224]

Not that the Jazz didn't have a low key good roster... Dantley, Green, Griffith, Eaton, Bailey, Stockton... They had scorers in Dantley (a league leading scorer along with Wilkins, Bird, Aguirre, King, English some of the best SF's scoring forward wing power forwards to ever play and some of the greatest scorers ever) Griffith (an excitable offensive player along the likes of future Stockton running mates Hornacek and Jeff Malone) Green could defense and make plays like his contemporary point guards Dennis Johnson, Maurice Cheeks, Norm Nixon, Nate McMillan, Fat Lever etc.) Eaton is an all time shot blocker (Hakeem should have had his 1989 DPOY 🏆 but oh well) and Bailey was a long version of James Worthy, alot like a softer gamed Buck Williams or an inside Clifford Robinson, or offensive minded Horace Grant, or Cedric Maxwell or Robert Horry before the death of the mid range game in the NBA. Utah had a quality franchise before Stockton and Malone arrived they were simply the pinnacle and longest fabric used to make that 20-25 year stretch run as long as it did but the fabrics were beginning to assemble quite nicely even before the Stockton and Malone combo helped kept it threading for as long as it did. 83-84 thru 85-86 the Jazz played in two semifinals rounds in 84 and 85, 86 they lost first round with a tag team Bailey, Dantley and Malone forward triplet unit... And 87 they readjusted again around Karl Malone and Bailey and 88 Stockton and Malone was very real... And of course they made the semifinal again before reverting back to zero in 89 & 90 and then their golden age of the Stockton and Malone era began round 91 into 92... Coincidentally when Magic Johnson left as well to give space to the other dominant point guards in the league.

[@unappealingundesirable2826]

The Jazz had some competent big men. Mark Eaton, Rich Kelley, Jeff Wilkins and Ben Poquette. Not superstars, but all four had seasons of double figure scoring (except Eaton), and all four had at least a season of 7+ rebounds. Of course, in that era, the Lakers had Kareem, and that was quality over quantity. Still, that quartet of Jazz centers, were not stiffs.

[@TL2354]

You’re a bore

[@alecsanderhamilton9224]

Olden Polynice vs Hakeem Olajuwon Haiti vs Nigeria

[@hectorlopez1069]

He punched him right in the face. Lucky Olajuwon did not get ejected because there was only two referees.

[@alecsanderhamilton9224]

Rockets or Nuggets in 85 second round ?

[@pmsfar-outgrooviness8025]

Nuggets

[@louishamilton9648]

Dream should have been tossed, simple as that.

[@oldsensei8350]

I meant to say I remember

[@joshuak4175]

Hey! I'm an archival researcher and would love to talk to you about this footage. Working on a basketball doc and this is the only place this game seems to exist. I don't think i can put my email in these comments. But please comment back and we can figure out a way to discuss

[@pmsfar-outgrooviness8025]

put your email on your About page

[@joshuak4175]

​@@pmsfar-outgrooviness8025 just did that