[WOW]The Injury-Resistant Houston Rockets or How the Rockets Defy Pareto

Yes, because the Spurs front office orchestrated the entire Losing their best player, tanking, and getting extremely lucky with the ping pong balls in the draft that produced by far the best big man in the next decade.

I don't understand Daryl Morey. Why couldn't we have asked Yao, Artest, Battier, Scola, and the rest to take a hike so we could've tanked for a 10% chance to land Derrick Rose? Obviously we know that's the best plan. And if had failed, like the Celtics did with Duncan, the fans wouldn't turn on the team at all. We'd all understand and decide to follow the Rockets until they get the next big superstar through praying for that #1.

But the Rockets are stupid. They idiotically decided that tanking's for losers and that it's much better to try to "contend" with their team. That's this team sucks.

 

It doesn't seem like the article accounts for the fact that the Rockets top players were in fact injured. If Kobe and Gasol were out for the season, don't you think the rest of the Lakers would have better numbers overall and thus more wins produced? From the other angle, wouldn't Brad Miller have a lot lower production if Yao were playing?

If I wrote an article about a person that was always out in the rain, and noticed that his clothes didn't get messed up because he had an umbrella all of the time, and then I posited that another person (who was not always out in the rain and thus did not carry an umbrella) would not have the same unmussed clothes if he were placed in a rain situation, that would not prove that the first person's clothes were more resistant to rain damage, it would prove that he made an adjustment to being out in the rain all of the time.

Also, the article seems to think Barkley played for the Rockets in 1995-96, even though their own chart correctly notes that he came to Houston the next season.

 

I noticed that a lot of those Rockets teams from the McGrady years don't include McGrady in the "top trio"... which is utterly ridiculous if I am understanding the parts of this article that I read properly.

Just look at the Rockets winning percentages with McGrady vs without McGrady from 04-05 to 07-08... that says all you need to know about our "injury resistance". Towards the end of 08, we finally added enough depth to be more injury resistant.