Looking at stats are deceiving sometimes due to many minutes played or lack of minutes played. So to get a better feel are stats "Per Minute Played" listed below through 43 games using NBA.Com stats for Rocket players only: Currently TMo ranks 4th in rebs, 5th in least turnovers, 3rd in blocks, 5th in assists, 7th in steals. Below is ranking of others, some surprising, some not, Collier is omitted since playing only 7 minutes, other intangibles obviously cannot be measured. Also of note, scoring per minute obviously is highly and mainly affected by total number of shots taken per minute and by shooting %: REBOUNDS Ave/Min Willis 1 Cato 2 Griffin 3 Morris 4 Thomas 5 Francis 6 Langhi 7 Williams 8 Torres 9 Mobley 10 Norris 11 Rice 12 Brown 13 LEAST TURNOVERS Ave/Min Cato 1 Griffin 2 Rice 3 Willis 4 Morris 5 Williams 6 Torres 7 Langhi 8 Mobley 9 Norris 10 Thomas 11 Francis 12 Brown 13 Ave/Min BLOCKS Griffin 1 Cato 2 Morris 3 Thomas 4 Willis 5 Langhi 6 Brown 7 Mobley 8 Williams 9 Torres 10 Francis 11 Rice 12 Norris 13 Ave/Min ASSISTS Norris 1 Brown 2 Francis 3 Mobley 4 Morris 5 Williams 6 Thomas 7 Rice 8 Torres 9 Griffin 10 Willis 11 Langhi 12 Cato 13 Ave/Min STEALS Brown 1 Thomas 2 Norris 3 Langhi 4 Mobley 5 Francis 6 Morris 7 Willis 8 Torres 9 Williams 10 Rice 11 Cato 12 Griffin 13 Ave/Min POINTS Francis 1 Mobley 2 Thomas 3 Williams 4 Torres 5 Griffin 6 Willis 7 Norris 8 Brown 9 Rice 10 Cato 11 Langhi 12 Morris 13
FREDTERP, Per minute (or per 48 minutes, same results times a constant) stats are the most useless in basketball. Players who play very limited minutes will typically be helped by stats such as these. Notice that Langhi beats Mobes in half of the catagories, but he can't even play his way off of the bench.
Hydra, thanks, good point, that's why in my first paragrapgh I stated: "other intangibles obviously cannot be measured". There is also the fact that a player with too a limited PT may have stats distorted, especially in Collier's case, that's why he was not included, but per minute stats are definitely more accurate than per game stats. FREDTERP
Hydra, please do not use this point to undervalue the main point of Fred. What it says is that Langhi should be playing. He is not playing, not because of lack of talent or skill. It is more for politics than anything. No one is going to tell me that Williams or Rice should have been getting the minutes. Langhi stat is not flattering, he should be playing. The fact that Rudy likes to go with a 3 guard rotation is not Langhi's fault. It is not like we have won our share of games because of that overused strategy.
