TeamRankings.com is a website I came across recently that provides some team statistics that are difficult to find elsewhere. The nice thing about it is it also allows you to view the statistics at a specified date. Rockets fastbreak points, in particular, were of interest to me. Here’s a quick look at our fastbreak points [...]
Using the statistical +/- model described at the excellent basketball-reference.com blog here and here, and data provided by dougstats.com, I calculated boxscore ratings for all NBA players who have played at least 500 minutes this season. Statistical +/- is not a +/- rating in the conventional sense, in that it is not based directly on [...]
Just a quick look at Houston Rockets guard Trevor Ariza’s scoring efficiency (in terms of true shooting%) over the course of this season: The red line represents league average true shooting% (about 54%). It is rare indeed when Ariza is able to match this number; he has done it only 9 times this season.
I wanted to see how Houston Rockets forward Carl Landry compared to some of the top power forwards in the league.
Courtesy of basketball-reference, I thought this was interesting. These are the head-to-head numbers for Houston Rockets point guard Aaron Brooks and Denver Nuggets point guard Chauncey Billups. When Rafer Alston was still around, a big part of the argument against Brooks was that he wouldn’t fare well against bigger point guards like Billups.
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