I hate Utah. I’m 22 years old, and Stockton’s 3 is my very first clear memory in my life. While I generally had some interest in basketball throughout my life, I became truly devoted with the Yao-McGrady Rockets – where they repeatedly ran into the one team which frustrated that team that was supposed to [...]
“What do you think is the best publicly available defensive metric?” “None really.” That was one of Daryl Morey’s responses on a Reddit chat that he conducted this September. (Yes, really. It’s quite fascinating.) In interviews he has repeatedly stressed the importance of defense and stated that to make the Conference Finals, much less the [...]
Last night, I observed that the game against Atlanta was one we should have lost. Tonight, this was a game we should have won. However, the Rockets came undone less to the mistakes of youth and instead more to sheer fatigue. If there had been anything to worry about James Harden’s performance for the last [...]
In a way, this is a game we should have lost. The Houston Rockets are a young team. Young teams commit mistakes. Teams that suffer a high roster turnover, that need to adjust to the habits of idiosyncrasies of one another, commit mistakes. And in basketball, a sport where maybe 5 possessions out of 100 [...]
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