(ESPN) Rockets are the best team ever without an Allstar

They need better editing. They need towo more wins to ensure being over .500.

 

LOL - that is funny in that the Bucks only had Redd for 490 minutes...etc...

But still.....a nice thing to discover and put out a little marketing blurb about.

And we only have to win 2 of the final games to be above .500...just saying.

DD

 

So do you... *two.

 

Shove that up your butt, Jerome Solomon.

 

This is the real reason the Rockets didn't want to play McGrady more minutes this year.

 

Nice little stat but it's like being the tallest midget.

 

Excellent!

How many minutes did he log this year?

 

this isn't even true. They just made some random ass guidelines so we would fit.

I don't think Redd would have been an all star this year, and tmac did play for us this year.

 

Not all star this year but has been an all star.

 

any silver lining for this season Ill take

altho we need no validation by all the espn haters and other media heads

 

mind putting up the whole article?
Thanks!!

 

Houston Rockets make history while missing the playoffs
April, 8, 2010 Apr 810:03AM ETEmail Print Share By Henry Abbott
Archive This morning Houston Rockets' general manager Daryl Morey said on Twitter that the Rockets are the best NBA team ever without an All-Star.

Wow. Really? Could that be so? The Rockets are 40-38 right now, with games against the Bobcats, Suns, Kings and Hornets on the docket. They'd have to win half their remaining games just to finish above .500. They've been out of the playoff hunt for a while now.

Has every team better than that, in NBA history, really had an All-Star?

I looked at this year's standings for a moment, and quickly came up with the Milwaukee Bucks. They have 44 wins already and I sure don't remember seeing any Bucks in that All-Star game in the Dallas Cowboys' Death Star.

Morey clarified by e-mail, saying the Rockets are the "only team since ABA/NBA merger (1976) with over a .500 record without an All-Star playing over 100 minutes. Michael Redd played 492 minutes for Bucks this year..."

He went on to explain that by "All-Star" he meant anyone who had ever been an All-Star, not just a current one, a measure by which the Bucks would be further disqualified thanks to Jerry Stackhouse.

Nobody sets out to be the best starless team ever. Not if you finish out of the playoffs. There's nothing dreamy about it. But it's still a nifty distinction for a Yao-less season in Houston. It's a decent feather in the cap of Morey's merry band of stat geeks, too, I suppose. Not only can they find the best role players, but they can also find this obscure statistic.

The interesting thing about it is that it's at once a tribute to Rick Adelman and the less famous Rockets he coaches -- nice going Aaron Brooks, Luis Scola and the gang -- while also a powerful ode to superstars, who are evidently entirely essential.

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DD

 

thank you DD!!

 

Is it me or is Abbott poking at Morey, kind of making fun of his stats?

 

i agree with morey but there are no stats to back up my claim. i guess looking at our record against the top teams and comparing that with the records of other teams that are lottery bound. i dont even know if that would hold up any argument for us and im too lazy to look it up. where is JCDenton? we need a highly detailed graph.
as someone else posted, we are the tallest midget... yay...

 

this hater on espn commented on the espn article that Morey is just tryna make the Rockets look good and blah blah blah so I responded to him.. my insider name is '2yger' go figure huh?



leroyjw1027 wrote:
That's a weak justification by Morey in an effort to build up his team, especially in regards to the Bucks. Redd and Stackhouse may have been all-stars in a past life, but they're nowhere near that level now. Morey is really looking for any loophole to try and make his team look good. Houston would've had an all-star playing if they would've given a healthy-enough McGrady the same minutes he's currently getting in NY. The quality of a team is based on the present, not the past. It doesn't matter what players have done in the past, it only matters what they're doing THIS season. Nice try Morey, but I'm not buying this one.


2yger (Me) responded:
leroyjw1027.. a weak justification? wouldve IF mcgrady played? news flash: TRACY IS WASHED UP AND HE WAS NO LONGER WANTED ON THIS TEAM, all u brainwashed utube/espn highlight viewers have no perspective.. wtf are u talking about? wtf are u b****in about? dumass there's TONS of 'wouldves' and 'ifs' on any NBA team, thats a totally ignorant and idotic and futile comment u make.. MASSIVE fail.. thats like sayin if Bogut wouldntve dislocated his elbow then the Bucks would have made it past the 1st round this year.. u see how stupid that sounds.. my Rockets are a great team WITHOUT a all-star, any other team that woulldve lost three allstars wouldntve done half as good as these gutsy Rockets, we lost Yao Artest and tracey and we're over .500 in April! we beat the Lakers, Jazz twice including that beatdown last night, the Mavs twice, the Spurs twice, OKC 3 times, swept the Grizzlies that everyone was jock riding, beat PHX, beat the Nuggets, beat the Celtics in BoSton LAST WEEKEND, blew out the Cavs WITH Shaq.. we've beaten all the top teams and thats not a great year? we would be in the 8th seed in the sorry #### eastern conference.. thats a great team by all accounts, sucker stop the hate crimes u loser.. nice try but NOBODY is buying ur misconstrued false opinion

he ran me hot when I saw that lol

 

no all star on the team = failure of the GM.

 

No all-stars is a bit of a misnomer. Brooks, Martin and Scola are borderline, as was Landry. If you name the top 30 players in the league instead of the 30 all-stars, I bet one of those guys is mentioned.