Rockets have never lost a game in the history of the franchise when the outscore their opponent in all four quarters.
You are the second person in this thread to say that. So, I'll repeat... Since when is outscoring your opponent a "Random" or "Meaningless" stat. You are looking for the "Captain Obvious Stat Thread."
We're #1! We're #1! We're #1! I haven't watched OKC in depth enough. How are they so how in overall net rating? Blowing out teams int heir wins and losing close ones? Why are they so high defensively? I mean I know they have some solid defenders, especially bigs, but I wouldn't think they'd be better defensively this year...
They blew out the Bulls twice which is saving their point differential. Their defense was pretty good last year and they added George who is a good defender. Their bench is also full of guys who are defense first. Kanter really hurt their defensive rating last year and he is gone.
Good point about Kanter. But they added Melo and reduced Roberson's minutes. Raymond Felton now plays almost 20 mpg for them.
To illustrate "non-garbage time", check out these ORtgs of the garbage crew, skewing our 48-minute team ORtg. PlayerGMPFG%3P%ORtgDRtgBobby Brown1288.341.33388110Troy Williams27.286.00065107Demetrius Jackson1161.286.00055103Zhou Qi1045.143.0004899Isaiah Canaan14.000-0108
From ESPN power rankings The Rockets have won their last 3 road games by 15 The longest streak of road wins by that margin in NBA history
"The Rockets have won each of their past five road games by 15 points or more, tied for the longest streak in NBA history. The previous three teams to do that each won the NBA title: 2011-12 Heat, 2003-04 Pistons, 1969-70 Knicks. Over the past two weeks, James Harden had a six-game stretch where he averaged 40 points and 10 assists, the third player ever to put together a stretch of that kind, joining Tiny Archibald and Oscar Robertson." -- Vincent Johnson
Typo alert. It's five games, and we are tied with 3 other teams. But the key is that each of the other three won the title that year.
The offensive gap has grown even larger. Rockets now 115.5 non-garbage Warriors now 113.0 non-garbage Regular: Rox: 114.2 GS: 113.8
We missed our first six shots last night, then dumped 26 of 29 on their asses. Our biggest lead was 50, but then MDA had pity on them and put Bobby in, so it was basically 4 on 6.
So Rockets need another quality end of bench player to take BB's minutes. Brown is a bad fit in MDA system because he plays no D and is a black hole on offense.
