More ESPN love for the Rockets... the "All Watchability" team and the beard.

Not sure why everybody is so concerned with how much ESPN acknowledges the Rockets...but I guess it's cool.

 

How sweet it is baby, how sweet it is......:grin:
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its overrated from ESPN...now Yahoo on the other hand always writes about us w/ much less notoriety. Yahoo sports>ESPN

 

ESPN is garbage.

 

Hey ESPN, how about some games on national TV then so I don't have to stream it?

 

Exposure is a plus for free agency reasons, that's about all I care about when it comes to this

 

A team that can't be watched by 60% of its home audience and has very few nationally broadcast games is among the most watchable in the league.

What a waste of a season.

Despite being a good team that is allegedly awesome to watch, they are going to be one of the least watched teams in the league.

 

Yeah, WTF is up with ESPN not picking up some of our games if we're so watchable? Jerks.

 

woot

 

People complain when the team is ignored and complain when the national media takes notice and starts showing them some love. SMH...our fan base is hard to please lol

 

The only really significant thing from ESPN loving on the Rockets is an increased chance for more national TV games next year.

 

You can bet on an increase next season

 

Has anyone posted this? Makes for an interesting read. Nothing groundbreaking, by any means, but I enjoyed it. From USATODAY.

Rockets' new offense proves 'exhausting' for players

The Houston Rockets have developed into one of the most enjoyable teams to watch. They push the ball, spread the floor, drive to the basket, take threes and generate points.

And it's working. The Rockets are 31-27 and in eighth place in the Western Conference with one of the youngest teams in the league.

Houston leads the league in pace at 98.72 possessions per 48 minutes and are fifth in points per 100 possessions (106.8), according to NBA.com/stats. But Rockets coach Kevin McHale admits running that kind of high-speed, point-generating offense is not easy, for a reason that is counter-intuitive. Already a good quote, McHale explained why.

"They all say they want to run until they run, and running's hard," McHale said. "Do you run to get the mail? Do you run to throw your toast in the toaster? No one likes running. It's hard to do. They just don't want to run. All players say they want to run. When you really start running, there are few players who really want to run."

This is a snapshot of Houston's offense: Get the ball and go. Two players run deep to the corners. Two players run wide on the wings. Space the floor and let James Harden or Jeremy Lin handle the ball and go from there with drives to the basket, ball movement and pick-and-rolls in order to get open shots inside or out while the defense scrambles.

"To move and play our offense, you have to get the court spread," McHale said. "You use the depth of the court, so you have to get all the way down to the corners. You have to use the width, which means you have to get out wide which means you have to run every single time.

"The offense only works if one or two guys are outrunning their guy. If you can get one wing outrunning his man and one big outrunning his man on every possession — it doesn't have to be the same guy every possessions. But if you can get one of your one, twos or threes out ahead or one of your four or fives out ahead, your break is going to work because you're going to have people chasing."

(the rest at the link below)

http://www.usatoday.com/story/sport...ames-harden-chandler-parsons-houston/1949915/

 

Much thanks to our fellow Clutchfan Kelly Dwyer for this.