Could the Rockets Have the Highest Scoring Offense in the League?

Yes sir. If there is a stat you want to keep an eye on, that is the one.

 

I actually did see your post, and I was wondering why in the world you would be talking about preseason point differential.

 

Because it is so fricken large.....I mean it is irrelevant in that it is preseason, but dang 18 points more than their opponents?

That says the team is catching on more quickly than a lot of us thought.

DD

 

I agree that points differential is more critical than being the highest scoring team in the league.

I can envision games against the weaker teams where Adelman rests the starters more because of the blow outs.

There is always the possibility that all will converge and this talented and deep Rockets team on paper becomes a juggernaut in the regular season and lead us to a championship.

 

there is a city called Phoenix

 

APOCALYPSE NOW!

 

Especially against quality opponents like Pana (37 pt diff) and Dallas Scrub team.

 

That'll translate into a 15ppg lead in the final second.

 

If Rockets could, that is no a good news.
It is hard to make the balance between Defense and Offense. If have the highest scoring offense in the league, that basically means we give up the D like Suns. That is the reason why Suns can not reach the Finals even once. Otherwise, Adelman also thanks VGD for his reserved wealth of D.

 

There's no chance. We could be one of the top offensive teams in the league, but in terms of scoring I think we'll be around 100-102 ppg.

 

Did the Spurs beat Pana by that much?

I know...irrelevant...still cool to look at !!!

DD

 

i dont think we'll beat phoenix, the mavs or even the warriors in scoring. we dont have the many 3 point threats as they do. those teams have at least 5 guys who can light it up behind the arc on any night. all we have is Luther Head and Battier. Mike James also, but he can be streaky sometimes.

 

we could beat the mavs. they only avg 100 last yr and we could surpass that. they're not as up tempo as we think.

 

No since they will still put lots of energy on the defensive end.....

 

yes no maybe so

 

we could probably score higher than the mavs, but the mavs have so many great 3 point threats.

Dirk
Terry (rockets killer)
Howard
Devean George (rockets killer #2)
Eddie Jones
Devin Harris
and maybe Ager

 

We really could. Especially with Adelman the games vs. Mavs, Suns, Golden State could be really interestin'. Earlier we won some games against them because of great performance of McGRady or Yao. Now it would probably be abou a whole team. So that really should be an interestin to see how we're gonna play against suns, mavs, etc.

 

Indeed.

The Lakers were still a fastbreak-oriented powerhouse during the 1989-90 season, the one after their prior repeat championships of '88 and '89. The difference was that Jabbar was already gone for the '90 season. Those Lakers still won 60 plus games but had difficulty with the heavy underdog Olajuwon and the Rockets (low 40 win team) in the first round. Then when the second round came along, the Tom Chambers/Kevin Johnson era Phoenix Suns who used a stout, serviceable but unspectacular center by the name of Mark West to clog that Lakers break. Result, Phoenix 4-1 over Los Angeles in the second round of the 1990 Western Conference Finals. It was the final year of Showtime as we knew it (next year new coach Mike Dunleavy would install a predominant half-court style to adjust for the aging talent). Imagine that year if the Lakers had Jabbar one last time.

So yes, a running team still needs good low post presence to increase its odds of winning it all.

And Yao is a silky, finesse type shooter, a prototype more similar to Jabbar than to a more interior mix-n-match rough-houser like Olajuwon or Ewing. So fluid ball movement with opportunity running...it really looks good for the Rockets.

 

we averaged 97 last year. we will average 102 this year. we were 5th in point differential last year....right arond 5 per game. we will be at 6 or higher this year.