The Rockets are now 4-0 against teams with great starting PGs (Suns-Nash/Mavs-Kidd/Hornets-CP3/Clippers-BDiddy) and 2-4 against teams with average-bad PGs (Memphis-OJ/Oklahoma-Westbrook?/Lakers-Fisher/Celtics-Rondo/Blazers-Blake/Spurs-GHill...-_-) This of course is pretty good news; when Parker comes back, the entire upper echelon of the Western Conference (assuming Spurs and Mavs recover, which they will) except for the Lakers will have an elite point guard at the helm. Of course, this could mean nothing...but hey, you bet against statistical trends at your peril.
We can also say that if you adhere strictly to what's been done you will only ever be average. Literally, following the trend
Nice observation, for how!!! However, less than 20 observations could hardly make a legitimate sample Standard Deviation could be too high!!!
I can understand where this coming from. Rockets is very good perimeter defense team and single center defense team. If a good team without good point guard, that means they must have good center/power forward. And Rockets has problem with good team which has dual interior threat or one good center/power forward with mid range shooting. It does depends if Yao/Scola can match up with other team. Spurs is different team because they have "the heart of champion".
Need to shore up that interior defense. Couple with his bad offense, McGrady's lack of defense against B Roy, Kobe, Odom, Pierce & Allen would surely be helped with Battier getting back, who would also help on switching D. Rockets should have plain beat the Spurs, mostly on McGrady but still a team defeat on that one...
Rondo is a BAD PG? Rafer is a lot worse, Losser Head is worst. Baron Davis is more of a SG than a PG I think. A PG should pass the ball to his teammates who are wide open, but baron prefers to finish the offense himself, just the way we played in GS. Personally, I don't think clippers is as a bad team as they appeared to be in the first several games of this season. It's a good team on paper but bad in statistics. With camby and kaman in paint, cat and thorton at wings, ricky davis on the bench, this team should be a little bit better if they have a good PG or even a mediocret PG. But they have a worst PG who always ignores the presenses of his teammates. Baron has to blame to the 1-8. Baron Davis this season:15 ppg;0.374 fg%;0.262 3pt%;0.667ft%;5 year/60m dollars. No better than Tmac.
He never said rond owas a bad pg. He said bad-to-average. Rondo is slightly better than average, but by no means an allstar. I think northside was referring to the fact that we do well against teams with allstar pg's. B-Diddy is officially a PG. He is a different type of PG, that's all. Northside also NEVER made an argument that our PGs are better than the PGs of the teams we've lost to. So why are you pissed off and saying that Rafer and head are worse than Rondo? We all know that. Your argument really has nothing to do with this thread.
Hmmm, maybe we focused on the wrong factors? Good teams with good PGs such as Chris Paul need Chris Paul. Teams like these need a Chris Paul or Baron Davis to run the offense or else they have nothing. However, the teams with bad PGs do not run through the PG as much, but run the offense through another player. Maybe we have been focusing too much on the opponent PG, and did not concern enough on the other players. So when the non-PG players catch fire, we get lid up. When we try to shift our defense to stop the big men, we distort it instead, allowing the bad PGs to feed off the big men. I made it sound confusing, but I think our defense is like a seesaw. We put everything on one side, leaving the other side weightless. Then when we realized the other side needs more weight, we throw all the weight on the other side, leaving the original side weightless. We need to set the tone early and keep the defense balance. Shifting defensive pressure is probably what is killing us.