Points from Rockets starters last night: 17-16-16-14-13. Rebounds: 12-9-7-4-4. I challenge anyone to find a better definition of balance. Now for the question: When is the last time a team's starters all scored within 4 points of each other in a winning effort? (I don't know.)
tell you the truth, those stats can be matched with last year's starting lineup, the only hard thing to find is getting Cato in double figures with Yao, Cat, Steve, and JJ. edit: that was easy last years first game of the season vs. the Nuggets http://www.basketballreference.com/teams/boxscore.htm?yr=2003&b=20031030&tm=Hou Yao 19-3 Cato 10-13 JJ 10-4 Steve 17-4 Cat 21-8 Rbs arent that impressive, but hey, the points were pretty balanaced.
5 players within 4 points...6 within 6 points. http://www.nba.com/games/20050208/MINMEM/boxscore.html ...but, though it doesn't fit the standards you posted...this is ultimate balance: http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/boxscore?gid=2004111229 8 players within 7 points. notice that both those examples are from the same team. i guess a 9 or 10 player rotation will bring balance. (look at the distribution of playing time...incredible).
Even more impressive is that you have to look back 5 years to find a Rockets team that has won six in a row.
It was balance on pts scored. But If you look at shots taken, Yao's 7of 10, Tmac is 7 of 17 or something.
Yes it's awesome.. I think the Kings do it all the time..but they're the Kings. This has been excellent ROCKETS BASKETBALL i love it let's beat the blazers
yeah last year we had lots of balanced scoring nights from the top 4. like Dave said getting cato in there might be tough but we seems to have lots of balanced scoring nights. francis was only averaging 16 a game and yao isn't one to explode so i imagine the yao/francis/jj/mobley separation was pretty small some nights. now rebounds, i don't know.
