As the season rounds out and sample sizes loom large, we can finally see just what this new Houston Rockets team is. After having by far the highest player turnover in the league, a Rockets team full of question marks has filled in a few blanks. One such question mark was the puzzling Jeremy Lin, [...]
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Winning, Losing and Turnovers
The Houston Rockets have been one of the highest-scoring teams in the NBA this season, and have surprised the league by sitting consistently in playoff position. The young Rockets were predicted to need a period of losing and growing before hopefully becoming a winning team in future seasons. In reality, Houston has been winning games [...]
Rockets vs the Calendar: Starters’ Minutes on Back to Backs
In January, the Houston Rockets slogged through six sets of back to back games, five of them in a row. After winning the first three games of that stretch, the Rockets embarked upon a notorious seven-game losing streak, only snapping it with a win over the Charlotte Bobcats. Now that the grueling stretch is over, [...]
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Houston’s Quiet Positional Revolution: Part 1 – Changing the Guards
NBA basketball is changing. Rules changes and new methods for measuring and developing talent usher in new styles of play, new styles of player, and new styles of winning. Teams like the Miami heat are reaping dividends by throwing out the idea of standard NBA positions, and so-called “small ball” is pushing the league to [...]
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