Grantland: Embrace the Dark Side
Posted: Wed Nov 19, 2014 6:37 pm
Fun article on Grantland about the Rockets embracing the role as villains.
http://grantland.com/the-triangle/houst ... iency-fun/
The only bad thing in the article is the stupid "Pat Beverley targets knees" lie that has been told so many times over and over that most believe that it is true. Can't get too upset about that, tho.
http://grantland.com/the-triangle/houst ... iency-fun/
I find the Rockets extremely annoying to watch. In their slavish devotion to Moreyball — which I have in the past described as “if card counting were a spectator sport” — they have become the most predictable offense in the NBA. They will bury opponents under the most efficient kind of scoring opportunities in the game: layups, 3-pointers, and free throws. They eschew, almost completely, “the worst shot in basketball”: the midrange long 2.
This season, in Dwight Howard and James Harden, the Rockets are the only team with two players in the top five of free throw attempts per game. Harden, as talented an offensive player as there is in the league, has tailored his entire style on flashing like mercury into the paint, and expertly baiting defenders into fouls, through a mixture of body positioning, dark sorcery, and flailing. He has 15 more free throw attempts than Kobe Bryant, whose own usage rate hovers somewhere just below “crack addiction.”
The only bad thing in the article is the stupid "Pat Beverley targets knees" lie that has been told so many times over and over that most believe that it is true. Can't get too upset about that, tho.