Three Games in and we know....

ibm · Apr 26, 2009

Yao4REAL said:

This Rockets team with so many players that play with heart and desire that i don't see them losing to Portland at all.

Yao - extremely competitive
Shane - extremely competitive
Artest - hate losing, relentless excessively competitive
Scola - All Argentinians are competitive
Brooks - Not sure about him but he play like it
Lowry - extremely competitive as demonstrate by his desire to attack
Wafer - Not sure but do play like dogs out there
Landry - Can be competitive
Chuck Hayes - extremely competitive..never give up.

So basically we have at least 6 players out of 9 from the rotations that are extremely competitive. This is very important because it's rare that you find players that have competitive nature in them. Sometimes you see players with great talents but non-competitive (see Tmac) or players that have extreme competitiveness but lack talents like those blue collar guys. Or players that have talents but lack competitiveness and IQ (see Oden).
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competitiveness is not the only factor, no matter how important it is. it should not be the reason to be so optimistic. unless you're saying they're not competitive in the previous utah series; or that the portland players are not as competitive.

Chamillionaire · Apr 26, 2009

Rockets Jones said:

What we also know that the Rockets are:

Offense
- 1st in FG% with 51.4
- 5th in FT% with 77.4
- 3rd in FTs attempted and 3rd in makes
- 8th in 3P% with 36%
- 14th in Assist per game
- 8th in TOs per game

Defense
- 5th in PPG with 90.3
- 7th in FG%
- 2nd in defensive rebounds with 99, tied for 4th in totall rebounds
- 15th in steals per game and 10th in blocks per game

Conclusion:

The only thing really negative is steals, blocks and assists. The rest is all pretty good considering how the Rockets have played. The FT% and FG% is what shocked me the most, because we were terrible in FG% during the regular season and I counted a lot of missed FTs. Also the overall defense has been great though you would not really think looking at steals, blocks and opp FG%. The rebounding is great and blocks have picked up last night so we're in good shape. We need to move the ball better and keep up the good work on the boards, block shots and shoot better from behind the arc.
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well played sir, statistics tell a lot about where we are compared to other teams playing now.

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