Were we the deepest team in the nba history last year?

How many minutes did Ryan play in the regular season? You have a very interesting definition of "useless".

Morey can't have a contingency plan for everything and we still were very close. Morey makes mistakes but he did overwhelmingly better than worse last season.

 

The only way to answer this question is with another question. Did we win the championship?

 

Again
People are missing the point that this is a bogus comparison

 

No but we are this year

 

I think this is a legitimate question if we are talking regular season only. Think about the number of injuries and games missed by key guys. The fact that the Rockets still won 65 games has to be attributed to superior depth. Winning 65 games is a rare feat even amongst great healthy teams. It’s not out of the question last years team could have won 70 plus had they been healthier.

 

Every team could have won more games had they been healthier. If the Warriors were healthier in the regular season, they could have been the number one seed over us. If every team was healthier, then the overall end result would be about the same. Of course, some teams were healthier than others and could have benefited more if healthier. But injury is part of the game. That's why depth is important.

A lot of Rockets fans said that if CP3 were not injured, we could have won the championship. Well that might be true. But was his injury totally unanticipated? We just didn't have the depth to overcome the injury. Depth is part of what makes a team great. And of course, luck is always a factor in who can win the championship.

 

The 08/09 Rockets when healthy was probably the deepest team I have ever seen.

Brooks/Lowry
Battier/Wafer/Brent Barry
McGrady/Metta World Peace
Scola/Landry
Yao/Mutombo/Hayes

Without Tmac and without Yao for most of the series, the Rockets took the eventual champs to 7 games.....

 

This argument misses the point completely... most good to great teams have the potential to win maybe 50 to 60 games if healthy. When such teams succumb to the amount injuries/games missed that th Rockets had, they tend to miss those marks. For instance a team like last years T Wolves who can be defined as a ‘good team’ could have won 50 to 55 games, but they lost a key player and won only 48. Boston, a great team, despite missing their two best players, would likely have won over 60. Warriors, like you said might have won 70 had they been healthy. Yes to ur point all those teams would have won more games if healthy. Why did they lose way more games then they should have? Lack of depth perhaps??? Which brings us back to the point at hand, Rockets were not that healthy considering CP3 missed 20 games, Harden missed 8, Capela and other valuable players missed a lot of games, yet they still won 65, which is rare even among healthy teams. The point again is to support the view that Rockets were a very deep team, at least in the regular season. And again while better health typically leads to more wins, it truly is a remarkable stat to only be 5 games from winning 70 (only 2 times in NBA history) with the amount of injuries the Rockets had...

 

The great morey? The one that doesn't know how to draft players? The one that have us Morris and and white? The one who just got lucky and got harden? The one who has a 20 million dollar player sitting on the bench? The one who signed an aging point guard who is always injured to the max deal? Maybe we should have let him go to the 76ers

 

We might have been the team whose fans most overrated its depth. Particularly after we picked up Joe Johnson and Brandan Wright.

 

You drop the truth like when Thor dropped storm breaker on those aliens on wakanda