Yearly Archives: 2013

Player Power Rankings: Week 6

(Writer’s Note: There was no Player Power Rankings last week because of a hectic Thanksgiving travel schedule. This edition will cover the four games Houston played between November 29 – December 5. Enjoy!) Every Friday all season long I’ll be ranking every active player (who sees the floor) on the Houston Rockets based on his [...]

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The Rockets Daily – December 6, 2013

BirdMester, Part One -  Bill and Jalen are talking basketball again you guys! Here’s the video, and if you’re impatient you can skip it and read about what they say about the Rockets below the break.

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Can Chandler Parsons be an All-Star?

Is Chandler Parsons the product of Daryl Morey’s utopian—pace, spacing, efficiency—paradigm or is he a legitimate, albeit unforeseeable, All-Star candidate on his own merit? Like most things, the answer lies somewhere in-between. Parsons has been a miraculous offensive basketball player this season. He’s efficient, smart, and athletic. He can shoot, dribble, pass, and rebound. He [...]

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The Rockets Daily – December 5, 2013

About Last Night – The Houston Rockets laid a steaming turd against the Phoenix Suns. Due to the relative drought of other Rockets news on the web, let’s talk about that some more. The Rockets played without Chandler Parsons, Jeremy Lin, Omer Asik or Greg Smith. As much deserved guff as James Harden will get [...]

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Phoenix Suns 97, Houston Rockets 88: Tucker’s defense on Harden is the difference

PJ Tucker flat outplayed James Harden on both ends of the court tonight. Tucker played defense on Harden for 40 minutes, held James without a three pointer for the first time in a year and scored 18 points.  Harden shot 3 for 17 on the game (17%) and missed all 10 of his three point [...]

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