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Rockets were 2nd best team in league after timeout

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  1. HTown5933

    HTown5933 Member

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    <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en data-scribe-reduced-action-queue="><p>As we dig in&amp;figure out how 2get better, 1successful area jumped out that we need to continue: we were 2nd best offensive team after timeout</p>&mdash; Daryl Morey (@dmorey) <a href="https://twitter.com/dmorey/statuses/501869673739087873">August 19, 2014</a></blockquote>
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    Lock if posted...

    Interesting. The McHale haters will tell us it was Finch's plays or only 'cause Dwight and Harden are so talented...lol.

    He's not a top 5 coach, but far from as bad as many believe.
     
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    Obvious followup question: what about when we were on defense?
     
    #2 shastarocket, Aug 19, 2014
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    I wanna hear the Rox being close to the 2nd Best Defensive team out of timeouts, out of the gate, & at the end of games in crunch time... It's no mystery that the Rox are potent offensively.
     
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    That would be nice. Hopefully with the addition of Ariza and a defensively focused Harden, we improve a great deal.

    Still thought this was interesting regardless of how good we are offensively. Many feel it's only due to our running and read and react offense and bash Mchale for his lack of playcalling.

    I've seen us look terrible out of timeouts but also run a beautiful set play.

    Wouldn't have guessed we were second in league last year.
     
    #4 HTown5933, Aug 19, 2014
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    What a trick..Morey mentions offense, but "accidentally" forgets to mention rox were one of the worst on defense after timeouts..

    Propaganda much?

    Milkhair is what he is.
     
    #5 Karolik, Aug 19, 2014
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    He should adjust for how good teams are before time outs... Houston offensively was already very good because of JH/DH combo. How much they improved after taking a timeout vs how much other teams improved when taking a timeout matters far more.
     
    #6 ind0fo0, Aug 19, 2014
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    I don't believe it. Must be screwed somehow.
     
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    how about the defense end... why didn't morey say anything about that? ;)
     
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    Good god our fans are awful. That's a terrific stat even though McHale isn't great, we just dedicated our offseason to defense. Simmer down folks.
     
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    McHale usually took timeouts to remind everyone we had Dwight ****ing Howard... Most of the time they just dumped it into Dwight and he would put in work.
     
    #10 Ekiu, Aug 19, 2014
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    Doubtful we could continue such great performance in the coming season since the real coach during time outs was just expelled this off season:

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    #11 freemaniam, Aug 19, 2014
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    How is that a trick? He said it's just one area to continue being good at. He didn't imply they weren't bad on defense. That would fall under the getting better part of the tweet.
     
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  13. houtown

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    Another obscure stat that doesn't mean a damn thing if the coach isn't managing the teams ego and players personalities well. Analytics has its place, but not when taking to an extreme as in with vague claims. Mchale needs to improve greatly and the Rockets need a better coaching performance out of him and his assistants in the future. I dont know many ppl who disagree with that.
     
    #13 houtown, Aug 19, 2014
  14. Invisible Fan

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    If it was a high ranking, I'd put doubt on the stats or at least question the occasions whe it really matters....
     
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    There is some funny math going on there for sure!
     
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    Yes, Morey should only talk abotu negative things and bury the good aspects.
    You'd be a great motivator and PR spokesman.
     
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    Source?
     
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    Murrey is just saying we need to continue one of the pro's we had from last year. Which is ironic to me, since milk hair only has one out of bounds play.
     
    #18 donkeypunch, Aug 19, 2014
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    You are more of a volume poster than a quality poster I am gathering.
     
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    I wonder who the first, third, fourth, etc were, and where the great coaches (Carlisle, Pop, Thibs, etc) rank.

    This reeks of cherrypicking stats.
     
    #20 emcitymisfit, Aug 19, 2014
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