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Does Small Ball Lose Advantage When Opponents also go Small.

Discussion in 'Houston Rockets: Game Action & Roster Moves' started by apollo33, Feb 9, 2020.

  1. jordnnnn

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    Warriors small ball was dominant because they were also capable of playing great defense while staying small.

    We have only had that capability one season.

    It’s not the shooters guys. As much as everyone wants it to be. Offense has not been the reason we have come up short. You can obviously point to single games here and there when the shooting was god awful, but on the whole our offense has not been the problem.

    Our offensive rating last night, over an entire season, would be the best in NBA history.

    Our defensive rating last night, over an entire season, would probably be the worst in NBA history.
     
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    Yes! When more talented teams do the same thing as us we will lose!!
     
  3. iNoseBleedRed

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    tongue in cheek, bruh
     
  4. jeevinesh

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    Giannis will destroy us on both ends of the floor - which he does to every team.
    Embiid and Tacko Fall can be played off the court with our small ball lineup.
     
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    Probably D'antoni and Morey's too.
    We beat the Jazz? I didn't know that... I still see an L to that column. I don't care if it is fun basketball. Winning is fun basketball.
    2017-2018 was fun Basketball. 93 94 was fun basketball. 94 95 playoffs was fun basketball. Losing sucks.

    Also really hard to imagine a team going shorter than ours? Maybe some middle school basketball team....?
     
  6. D-rock

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    Celtics are also an elite smallball team. Only played Kanter about 6 minutes.

    Rockets out small balled them.

    Everyone can come off the ledge now.
     
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