How do the other teams score on the Rockets? Is it the front court or back court?

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Start watching games.

 

Cuz machale is racist. He only let's white players score on us.

 

Yes.


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They score on the Rockets with their star/best players.

 

it varies based on the other teams strengths

 

A big one is in transition. The Rockets are fast-paced and turnover prone.

 

One shot at a time.

 

A big hole in Rocket's defense is Harden, Harden has to convert all his energy into his offensive game therefore he puts little to no effort in playing D. This is why nearly every match-up against Harden always scores big numbers. Nothing against Harden though, I love watching him attack the rim and we need him to score big for us.

 

For a simple question, it's a complicated answer. It's both. Sometimes, you just have to tip your hat (like to Cousins, who abused Asik and Aldridge last night). But JLin and Harden are prone to be burnt on the outside, which is never good. A high PnR is Asik's weakpoint, especially if Lin cannot fight around the screen, which he has improved on over the course of this year. Parsons has been down defensively. Harden's lazy, too lazy.

In the second unit, TD moves his feet well, but he gets brutalized on picks. Delfino is solid, but thats it. Not great, not bad. He is very useful and communicates well from what I can tell, which is a HUGE plus. Greg Smith is terrible, and Morris is clueless. Seriously, he is clueless. Aldridge can't get a rebound and is slow.

tl;dr: everybody can improve, honestly. Keep in mind we play at a high paced game, looking at PPP is more accurate.

 

From the front, from the back, then they shoot all over our face...and sometimes Jeremy Lin bleeds

 

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1. Marcus Morris - D-League scrub who can't do anything other than hit threes.

2. Cole Aldrich/ Greg Smith - Cole has no business being on the basketball court while Smith has the defensive BBIQ of Amare Stoudemire while also being too short to play C.

3. Chandler Parsons & James Harden - Chandler is a rag-doll that gets bullied around and offers nothing defensively. Harden used to put zero effort on D, he's improving though, but his lateral quickness and scoring responsibilities will mean he'll never be a lockdown defender.

4. Jeremy Lin - Very big for a PG so teams who utilise a lot of screens may catch him, and smaller quicker guards can beat him with speed. In today's NBA though, no one is really a lock-down defender at PG, you need to defend PNRs and speed freaks like Westbrook/ Rose/ Lawson as a team.

 

Front to back or back to front?

 

The bench is ranked 22nd-23rd defensively (-5.5) and 22nd-23rd in rebounding.

Upgrading the bench would work wonders. And I think Morey will make a trade for a bench player by the trade deadline (a backup center who can rebound and protect the rim would be nice)... And it would probably help a lot if McHale started*using*T Jones and D-Mo to backup Patterson at the power forward spot instead of using a small forward (Morris) at the power forward spot.

 

Overall accurate comments.

 

I thought one of our stat-heads would have quoted some numbers by now. Surely there's a shot-chart or a PPA by shot-type metric that can be brought to bear here.