If you count the number full moons per basketball season and divide them by the average number of popcorn bags that are sold at the TC on Saturday night games during the season and multiply that sum by the number of wretched players the Rockets put under contract from 1996 to 2007 you can determine that the return of Yao will net an additional 13 wins. It's really quite simple.
ONE more win than last season. Is that what adding Yao Ming for at least 59 games is worth to that idiot? GMAMFB. What a tool.
This analysis is long and wordy but extremely irrelevant. The Rockets defense was terrible for most of the year. Adding Yao who has always been a good rim protector and Miller who has legit 7'0 size, along with having the athleticism of a further developed Jordan Hill as well as being able to bring Chuck in for stretches strictly for shutdown D instead of wearing him out at the 5 all game...and all we lose is Ariza yet we gain a smaller, yet proven perimeter defender in Lee....All of this to me seems to net us atleast 6 or 7 more wins on DEFENSE ALONE. Now I could go into how the offense is going to be so much better with Yao, a full camp K-mart, AB in his 4th year,Chase in his 2nd, Miller backin up Yao in Adelman's system, etc. but I wont . Bottom line is, all this statistical analysis is intriguing and all but it's someone looking at a stat sheet and not having seen 82 games of the Rockets last season. 1 more win? Really?
This. IMHO he should have looked at his before-after prognosis and realized how silly it is to say that adding Yao Ming and Brad Miller will only result in "1" total win.
Bud was a rookie last season, and Ariza was the overrated free agent from the Lakers. How many games did Brooks start his rookie season? Eventually he worked his way into the rotation and proved he was way better than Alston.
I don't find this surprising at all - Dave Berri's model is going to overvalue rebounds (and thus big men) until the cows come home so in other news, sun sets, moon rises. Film at 11.
