The comment last night on TNT about the Rocket's defense being suspect because they gave up 70+ points in a half got me thinking about what the distribution of offensive and defensive performances for the elite teams look like this year. Here I charted it: The best performances would correspond to high ORTG and low DRTG (upper-right area in the chart). You can see that there's a pretty wide distribution both on offense and defense, which is why drawing assumptions off of one game, let alone one half, is a bad idea. Code: ORTG DRTG avg std avg std HOU 115.8 9.0 104.8 9.9 SAS 108.0 13.5 104.1 9.6 GSW 116.2 12.4 105.2 10.1 BOS 109.3 10.1 103.1 10.3
Can you put some trend lines in there. Just looking at the data, it seems as the rockets do better offensively there DRTG goes down and vice versa.
The correlation is actually slightly positive for all 4 teams: Rockets: r^2 = 0.102 Spurs: r^2 = .245 Warriors: r^2 = .268 Celtics: r^2 = .477
