Harden played terrible, and Aldridge and Lillard played out of their minds, and the Blazers barely won the series. If everyone plays to their average, the Rockets would win.
IF MJ came outta retirement and played like he did in 1992 would we had blew Portland out? IF we had Hakeem instead of Dwight it's a clean sweep? The word IF doesn't do much after losing in the 1st round Bottom line, if we were the better team we win. We lost. Portland's better. We need to upgrade in the offseason. If not, they'd beat us again
People are excited about the direction we are heading. At one point we didn't have a freaking superstar and stuck around mediocre for 5 years. So heck yeah I am proud of Morey for snatching up two Superstars. The future looks bright and watch Morey build around these two Superstars. I guess you were excited when we kept winning barely 40 games.
A lot of IF's in this comment. How long did it take the Rockets to build a championship caliber team around the Dream? How many years did it take before MJ won his 1st championship? It takes time dude.
4th rated offense in the regular season. 3rd rated offense in the postseason. We aren't doing anything wrong on offense.
But yet they only won two games in the post season when they had home court advantage and lost the series to a less talented team with a better coach. They were ranked #14 in 3 point percentage in the playoffs out of 16 teams by the way. They were also ranked #12 in turnovers and #12 in assists in the playoffs out of 16 teams which isn't good either... So yea, they are doing something wrong on offense which is shooting themselves in the foot.
The goal on offense is to score. Not just score, but do it efficiently. Meaning getting the most points out of each possession we have. We do that. Better than nearly every team in the league. It doesn't matter if we do it while having a low number of assists and shooting a low percentage on 3s. Bottom line despite those things that are negative put it all together and our offense still produces. They lost that series because our defense was garbage. Dead last in defense in the playoffs.
I see we had our hopes up too high. Come on Remii we know better than that sir. It takes time to build a championship caliber team and it takes time to build up the right chemistry. Next season we will see a better playoffs team brother.
Being close to dead last in turnovers and ranked #16 in 3pt percentage when they rank #1 in 3pt attempts is not efficient. If they slow down they would probably score just as many points and that would help their defense because they're not just handing the ball over to the other team. Houston, GSW, Portland, Clippers, and OKC were the top 5 teams in pace during the playoffs and all were ranked at the bottom 5 in defense during the playoffs. Portland and Houston were in the bottom 3 in defense and we lost to Portland who is another bad defensive team but yet you say the offense is so great
It's one thing to sign Harden but when you bring in Howard _ expectations should be high. I have absolutely no faith in the system that Morey/McHale are trying to run. Teams that constantly push the pace like that _ don't win championships and usually don't play good defense. That's not my opinion it's a fact. Hopefully they will change that. They did slow it down a lil and took less 3's when Howard showed up so hopefully that will continue. Good thing is if the don't go deep next year _ McHale has to be fired.
Scoring near the top in points per possession is efficient. There is no arguing this point. All these other stats you are throwing out are meaningless and don't change that as a team we are one of the best at points per possessin. Efficient offense. You keep bringing up our 3 point attempts and percentage and it makes me think you don't grasp TS% or effective field goal percentage. It doesn't matter that we are middle of the pack in 3 point percentage, because the numbers are still in our favor. We are hitting them at a good enough rate to still produce a very favorable outcome in terms of points scored. Could we be even better with better shooters? Obviously and I have agreed with this, but that doesn't mean we are inefficient now, it just means we would become the most efficient team in the league instead of just top 5. Miami was tied with us for turnover rate during the regular season. It doesn't freaking matter because there defense and offense are efficient. We have the efficient offense. We need the efficient defense. Slowing our pace a bit MIGHT help our defense, but at what cost to the offense? And really the beginning of our entire exchange was you think that the shot selection we preach is a mistake. Simply put it isn't, the best teams are going after the shots we are going after although because of certain personnel other teams allow for more midrange, when we get more guys with that skill set I would imagine we get more attempts from that distance. If the shots we are taking, no matter where we rank percentage wise compared to the league, still produce one of the best points per possession how can they be the wrong shots? I do not understand how you can continue to argue against this.
Wrong. San Antonio, the champs, only averaged 1.7 less possessions per game than us during the regular season and only 1.1 less per game in the playoffs. They pushed the pace AND played defense AND won the championship.
We have 2 superstars and we're still closer to mediocore than we are a contender So you're proud of how bright our future is? Is that what you're proud of? The future hasn't even happened yet. The REALITY is we're just a talented team ON PAPER, in the same boat as the Tmac & Yao era. Injuries, bad trades & terrible coaching can run a team down the drain. Nothing is promised. Everybody's praising Daryl Morey for creating a "exciting team" but wake me up when we're a serious contender
I just played a nonupdated 2k13 game as the Rockets. Our roster consisted of Jlin Parson Asik Ppat Martin Dmo MOTHER ****ING WHITE compare that to now, it is such a huge change
And those results we live with on offense using ESPNs number for the regular season... Rockets score 108.6 points per 100 possessions. 4th overall Spurs score 108.2 points per 100 possessions. 6th overall Rockets have an effective field goal% of 53.1%. 3rd overall Spurs have an effective field goal% of 53.7%. 2nd overall Rockets have a TS% of 57.1%. Tied for 2nd overall Spurs have a TS% of 57.1%. Tied for 2nd overall Does the spurs offense look beautiful and outs at times a mess? Absolutely. But the end result is pretty GD similar. BIG and I mean BIG difference is defense. Not offense.
That's a great analogy. Harden killed Portland in the regular season, and Lillard struggled. That turned around in the playoffs, but that's not any kind of proof it would happen again. Very comparable to bringing 50 year old guys out of retirement.
