I just worked out a chart trying to see where the Rockets are compare to the rest. I divided the League into 3 tiers instead of just above or below 0.5. Tier 1 teams are above 0.6. Tier 2 teams are between 0.45 to 0.59 and 11 teams below 0.45 are tier 3. The result are no surprise and very consistent! Our winning perentages are 0.42 with Tier 1 teams, 0.68 with tier 2 and 0.92 with tier 3! Code: Tier 1 W L Tier 2 W L Tier 3 W L Lakers 2 1 Nuggets 2 1 Clips 2 0 Spurs 2 2 Worrier 2 2 Grizz 3 1 Honnets 2 2 Blazers 4 0 Wolf 3 0 Jazz 1 1 Kings 2 2 Sonics 3 0 Suns 1 2 Cavs 2 0 Pacers 2 0 Mavs 1 3 Wizards 2 0 Nets 2 0 Celtics 0 2 76ers 0 2 Bulls 2 0 Piston 1 1 Raptors 1 1 Bobcats 2 0 Magic 1 1 Hawks 2 0 Bucks 2 0 Knicks 2 0 Heat 1 1 11 15 17 8 24 2 win % 0.42 0.68 0.92
these stats speak volumes on how the rockets were the past seasons with jvg: great in the regular season, mediocre in the post season. hopefully the trend won't continue.
The biggest X-factor in the first column is that we are always down one of our stars against the Tier 1 teams. We didn't run into hell week until after Yao's injury, we lost 1 to Utah without Yao, 1 to Boston without Mac, so I still think that our record against Tier 1 opponents is misrepresented due to the absence of our stars.
To your chart: I think thats taking care of business and that to me is the sign of a good coach with possibly low talent. To answer your trap title question: If guys hit their shots (rafer, shane, Head, Scola) we are as good if not better than anyone. I think people forget that we do still have TMAC.
...atleast the ones with great defense. It's easy to beat a bad team if they can't score but if you let them go on a run any NBA team can beat you.
Then you are one of the many who made that same erroneous deduction last season. Everyone was crowing about 4th seed and few observed that when you subtracted out Gundy-ball feasting on the EC, the Rockets had a mediocre WC record. The results spoke for themselves. Further, some of the "big" statistical wins this season came against the Cavs (twice) who did not have Gooden, Varejao and Pavlovic, NO who was missing David West, the Mavs for Dirk's suspension, etc. Yours is much more of an optimistic "Rah Rah" nature than mine. You can dismiss thses stats as incomplete. I tend to view them as a bit of realism. Not a slam dunk but hardly "incomplete". What makes it "complete"? 5 more games?
Don't you think EVERY team has some of those questionable wins? Do you think teams that beat us without Yao are saying.."Well we beat them, but...." I am more optimistic than you, I don't think you need a perfect team to win, but rather can have a team with fantastic chemistry that covers up for some warts. I do not think the team is good enough to win it this year, without Yao.....and feel that they are learning HOW to win as a team and NEXT year will be even better. I do think that with Yao the team would be a contender THIS year.......but alas that is not going to happen. DD
Nah, JVG's teams beat up on the dregs and lost to the top tiered teams.....which ironically every top team probably has the same bell curve. That is why the data is not conclusive to me. DD
Our winning percentages would be close, that is what I am saying. In other words most tier 1 teams would have about a .500 record against the other tier 1 teams. DD
Maybe we can do that... someone see if the winning percentages of teams like Boston, the Pistons and the Spurs are similar to ours against each tier. Then there would be more basis for comparison.
Thats pretty good. We beat who we're supposed to and hold our own against the elite. Anyone expecting us to have the same winning % on the elite as the scrubs must be expecting 40 straight and a 75 win season.
I am more interested in your signature. Are you implying that Obama is the Anti-Christ? Talk about political hyperbole!
