And Dallas barely beat some bad teams this year as well, I don't get the point? Dallas barely beat the Celtics? The Grizzlies barely beat that same Thunder team? So again, I don't see the point. If we are going to take so much out of every regular season game then it's going to be a up and down roller coaster of an analysis. Teams will play good for stretches and bad for stretches. When the Rockets played bad, they had a defense they could rely on (something they didn't have last year) to win games they probably shouldn't have. SoS is skewed because we playd the Lakers who are 1-9 and the Sixers who are 0-10 and we played the Sixers twice. The rest of the teams we played are average at best or even playoff teams like the Heat, Warriors, and Spurs.
They Mavs are better. Not because of their player personel, but because they are a better ran team than we are. We are completely once dimensional. If we're not hitting 3's everything falls apart. It would be nice to see us run some plays to get other guys open every once in awhile
If this was in the middle of the season, a sting of 3 bad games can be dismissed as just a cold stretch, AND we could say that we were happy to just have lost one game. But this is the beginning of the season. We have no way to know whether this is just a cold stretch or is a trend. I said earlier in another thread, I would wait and see more before I could say whether we should be worried. But to dismiss this as just a cold stretch is as irrational as to say that the sky is falling. That fact is, we have been playing some weak opponents. And when we played real challenging teams (Heat, Warriors, Grizzlies) we were 1-2.
Granted PER has its deficiencies, Dallas has 3 players in the top 10 of PER (Wright, Dirk, Tyson Chandler). Barea is in the top 30. So far their championship reunion plan is working. Imagine that, a team with an assist/turnover ratio greater than 1.00
1-2? So you discount the Spurs game but then count the Warriors game? I'm dismissing it as a cold streak because we have played more good games than bad. That's simply how I see it. The Rockets up to this point have been more good than bad. Team played 4 games in 6 days, could have something to do with their recent play as well.
Man, the GARM is going to be a complete trainwreck if we lose to Dallas on Saturday. DAL does have to play the Lakers at home on Friday, so maybe that helps us? It's the Lakers so... not really
It's definitely a 3pt cold streak. Currently our 3pt FG% is about 35% on average. If we shot our average vs the 76ers, we win by 16 points instead of 1 point. If we shot our average vs the Thunder, we win by 19 points instead of 3 points. If we shot our average vs the Grizzlies, we lose by 14 points instead of 26 points (far more respectful for a 2nd game of a b2b).
The Mavs will be on the 2nd night of back to backs on all 4 of their Rockets games this season. In fact, 3 out of those 4 games will have the Mavs playing their 4th game in 3 nights. Meanwhile, the Rockets will have at least 1 day's rest prior to each of their 4 Mav games. In other words, the schedule makers have stacked the odds in the Rockets' favor.
The only thing that concerns me about Dallas is that they have a good coach. We have some obvious holes in our lineup at the 4 and the 1 (big surprise!!) and a problem with depth, but assuming everyone's healthy, I'd take our guys over their guys in a New York minute. Oh, and Parsons is an *******. Wanted to be sure and include that thought in my post if the topic is related to the Mavs.
I don't understand this point. By the same token we were insanely, unsustainably hot through the first few games of the season. You can't just inflate 3 games of bad shooting without deflating some games of good shooting.
Ariza's defense will straight murder Parsons' offense Beverley's defense will straight murder Nelson/Fatton's offense Harden's offense will straight murder Monta Ellis' 6 fouls
Not really. Mavs are average on D and historically hot on offense. Doubt either lasts, but that's where they are right now.
Our sos is not 29th in the league according to the article that was posted in the "can Rockets and Grizzlies stay atop the west" thread yesterday. So I'm not sure where everyone is getting that number.
The Spurs were without Duncan and Ginobili. Don't remember? Even if you count them, it's .500 against teams with winning records, hardly reassuring to me.
27th, not 29th, according basketball-reference: http://www.basketball-reference.com/teams/HOU/2015.html It was lower before we played Memphis yesterday.
I wonder how different outlets formulate those rankings. http://bbs.clutchfans.net/showthread.php?t=259966 Because in there it says before yesterday's games the Rockets had the sixth easiest schedule and Memphis had the third easiest.
