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Rockets have the best record in the league vs >.500 teams

Discussion in 'Houston Rockets: Game Action & Roster Moves' started by omgTHEpotential, Dec 31, 2018.

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  1. omgTHEpotential

    omgTHEpotential Member

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    Against .500 and above they're 13-5
    Against .500 and below they're 7-10

    Some comparisons...

    GSW:
    vs >.500 9-10
    vs <.500 15-3

    OKC:
    vs >.500 5-8
    vs <.500 17-5

    Bucks:
    vs >.500 11-6
    vs <.500 14-4

    Raptors:
    vs >.500 10-7
    vs <.500 17-4

    76ers:
    vs >.500 4-9
    vs <.500 19-5

    Other teams have been much better at beating up on bad teams, but the Rockets are dominant against the toughest competition.
     
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    isnt denver up there too ?
     
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    Doesn’t matter Brain!!!!




    ......wait... wrong thread...
     
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  4. omgTHEpotential

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    12-7
     
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    Os Trigonum Contributing Member
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    Are we just gonna ignore that the Rockets have the best record in the league vs >.500 teams
     
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  6. omgTHEpotential

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    Deserves its own thread.

    Oh wait.
     
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  7. Roc Paint

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    I’ve grown to love the Rockets beating +500 teams
     
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    Thanks for posting that. I felt like we had a pretty good record against all the playoff contenders despite our slow start.

    No team wants to face the Rockets in the playoffs. Not even GS.
     
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    Make that 14-5 ;)
     
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    GREAT THREAD
    i forwarded this to the real gm forum
     
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    That's great! So, why this then: Against .500 and below they're 7-10

    if you can beat the good teams, why struggle so much against the bad ones???

    The only answer I can come up with is mental--they think they can easily beat the bad teams, so they don't try hard enough, and they lose.
     
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    Okay Pinky.....
     
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    Rockets would have the best record in the West by a comfortable margin if they just gave decent effort the first month of the season. Damn shame. At least they're looking better now.
     
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    Yep. And I think effort was a big part of it.

    Rockets were one thing last year they haven't been in a while: consistent. They lost that, at least in the first part of the year.

    As comparison, I think I recall that the Showtime Lakers had a string of something like 3 years straight where they NEVER lost to a sub .500 team. I imagine Jordan's Bulls were very similar. If you beat the bad teams, and go .500 against the good ones, you're .750, which works out to about 62 wins a year. That's what the goal should be. Certainly if you can consistently beat the good teams, you should only very rarely lose to the bad teams.
     
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    So start beating the crap teams too.

    DD
     
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    Those losses to the Cavs, Wizards, and Wolves look really dumb now. I don't fault anyone for not wanting to watch this team play after that first month, it was downright unwatchable.
     
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    Those losses to the Cavs, Wizards, and Wolves look really dumb now. I don't fault anyone for not wanting to watch this team play after that first month, it was downright unwatchable.
     
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    That's good, but our poor record against bad teams indicate a lack of consistent focus and discipline.
     
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    7-10 against teams below .500 is regrettable, though most of those losses of course are when we were in a funk and still trying to figure things out. I have a feeling we'll be much better at taking care of business against bad teams in 2019.
     
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    True, but at the same time it's encouraging to know that this team still has a very high ceiling. Offense is king in this era, and the Rockets have the #2 ranked offense in the whole league.
     
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