The Once and Future Aaron Brooks – In yesterday’s post-practice interview, Jeremy Lin revealed that Aaron Brooks gives exactly the kind of veteran advice you would expect to hear from Aaron Brooks. “Like for example, in the Golden State game at halftime, I was talking to him like, ‘How do you counteract someone so explosive [...]
All That Power – The Rockets slipped from 8 down to 10 in both Marc Stein’s (ESPN) and John Schumann’s NBA.com power rankings this week, because that’s what happens when you blow a game to a team (Phoenix) that has no reason to do anything other than tank at this point in the season. Marc [...]
Addition by Omission – The most significant thing about Bill Simmons’ piece on the worst contracts in the NBA, is what is left out: you won’t find a single player from the Rockets’ roster on the list of the worst 30. Only one current player was mentioned in the article (aside from speculation about Harden [...]
Brutal – Over at The Dream Shake, Mike Prada wrote up a brutally accurate assessment of the Rockets’ brutally bad defense. Here’s the jumping off point: It’s tempting to blame this decline on the team’s wide-open style of play, which puts smaller players on the court to spread the floor offensively. However, in watching the [...]
Talk About It – Rahat was a guest on ESPN 1660 yesterday, weighing in on, amongst other things, the Thomas Robinson trade. “The effect of that trade, which was more of an indirect effect, was actually that it freed up minutes for Donatas Motiejunas,” he said. Hold that thought for after the break… Numbers Game [...]
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