Small Ball Rockets at 118.6 points per 100 possessions

Who would have thought holic was right all along?

 

Will never win in the playoffs.

Unless you have 2 to 3 elite 3pt shooters and uh......we don't.

DD

 

How is a complete inability to get defensive rebounds gonna beat the likes of the Lakers and Bucks?

They made Porzingis look like a legitimate All-Star, so I can only imagine how they’ll make AD look. Giannis will have no competition at the rim. Both teams will obliterate us on the boards.

the Pelicans, who are slightly above average at 12th in rebound percentage, out rebounded us by 20...we got away with it and squeaked out a win because we forced 21 turnovers, and it’s the Pelicans

What are their numbers like against playoff teams? How will they do against a big team that’s actually good like the Lakers? Will the Nuggets now have an easier time not having to worry about Capela? That is what I’m interested in.

 

Exaclty this is not sustainable in the playoffs unless we are going to be lights out from outside, and do you really expect our role players to hit an especially high percent when the lights are the brightest ? We need to be able to rebound the ball. Sometimes you have to throw some analytics out and use common sense.

 

Houston has been stingier defensively in Capela’s minutes, allowing 108.5 points per 100 possessions with him on the court and 111.4 points-per-100 when he sits, which is roughly the difference between having a top-10 defense and a bottom-10 unit. Since Capela went out with a heel injury four games ago, leading D’Antoni to flip the switch on his super-small-ball groupings, Houston has rebounded just 69.1 percent of opponents’ misses, a defensive rebounding rate that would rank dead last in the league over the full season, and has given up 14.5 second-chance points per game, which would rank second worst.

This is supposed to reassure me? Nah. Nope. I’m not feeling what’s in this paragraph at all.

So a bottom 10 defense and league worst rebounding combined with the league’s best offense is the new championship formula? How much will a wing like Covington and some decent C that plays maybe 20 mpg while we go super small the rest of the time improve the defense and rebounding? That is the key.

 

Devils advocate

Small ball vs good teams and against bad teams.

 

me

 

In Morey We Trust

 

he wasn't. you still have 4 out. not 5. his dream was to have all 5 out

 

Replace Capela with Wings that rebound. Plus team rebounding must improve like it did in 2nd half of Pels game.

It's a system shift form one position cleaning up glass to entire team. Even with Capela in lineup, Rockets struggled rebounding.

 

Rockets also won rebounding battle vs. Mavs and Jazz.

 

Look...the fact is, we have to deal Capela because Westbrook cant shoot. with those two guys on the floor and PJ injured, its literally just Gordon/House and Harden who can shoot.....damn you Tillman...and to a lesser degree James.

 

We barely won, and do we win it if Luka plays? Here we go reducing the game to math again...sigh

 

what about rebound and block shots?

 

Just because Capela is useless doesnt mean small ball works. We beat 1 team and all of sudden analytics was right. I still have nightmares of Looney snatching offensive rebounds over Harden.

This is just another Morey has another breakthrough formula to feed his narcissitic appetite.

 

This is with Russ, not when we had CP3 & Clint.

 

#4 is why it can't be relied upon entirely. That'll kill you come playoff time.