Breaking down the Rockets' success

[frongi]

not sour, but you know what would make me sour? losing three conference finals in a row to the same team

[aussietin]

wont deny that i am disappointed about that. but thats immaterial. every time i try to say that my team has been good, you just say its not cuz of small number of games, cuz i havent won anything yet. really? can't you just accept a team that's doing well, and admit they're doing well? im not saying i'll win the ship. i'm saying my regular season is looking great.

and goddamn you are cocky. wow. was there even any reason to bring that up?

[tdub13]

there is so much hate in this thread lol...

i've written articles in the past, and something like this definitely takes a lot of time and effort researching the stats and whatnot. no reason to give the guy a 1 just because you don't agree with what he has to say...

[Bundybastard]

Excellent article.

My money would be on the Rockets to make it this season, definitely think that they were unlucky to not have made it in the last few seasons.
Good to see a bit of a Thunder/Rockets rivalry happening

[popnfresh]

neither of you will beat me this season

Ha. I think they both could

[frongi]

well it all stems from aussie saying that my team hasn't been better than his over the past 3 seasons. and now talking about how awesome his team is. thats "disrespecting" my team. now i dont mean hes disrespecting me or anything. if i ran into you aussie, id have a beer with ya. just a little friendly rivalry imo. kind of realistic, no?

[aussietin]

i just wanted to say that you shouldn't have said you 'should have' won all 3 game 7s. but besides that, i wouldve said that your team had the higher percentage to win the seasons before the last, when i thought i might have the slight advantage. its all good though. i'd shake on it, and just leave the hate behind, and just retain the friendly rivalry. and tbh, if im talking about how awesome my team is, ive never once made personal opinions in this article (maybe the jrue comment about being best PG ever... but besides that). Otherwise, its all stats.

[frongi]

there's no hate here. though i do hate jrue went up in outside, handles, and defense to be worth the max contract that i didnt give him. he only went up 1/3 grade in 1 category for 3 tcs in a row. then he goes up 1/3 grade in the 3 relevant ones as soon as he is on someone elses team. damn. i also hate that i didnt accept his max because i thought i was going to be able to sign chandler so i was allocating salary for him, but then it turns out you couldnt get amnestied guys back. yea that blows.

[aussietin]

there's no hate here. though i do hate jrue went up in outside, handles, and defense to be worth the max contract that i didnt give him. he only went up 1/3 grade in 1 category for 3 tcs in a row. then he goes up 1/3 grade in the 3 relevant ones as soon as he is on someone elses team. damn. i also hate that i didnt accept his max because i thought i was going to be able to sign chandler so i was allocating salary for him, but then it turns out you couldnt get amnestied guys back. yea that blows.

rules on the amnesty shouldve been a little clearer, thats the truth. i've been eyeing jrue since dcollison looked like he was gonna bust, and i was pretty pumped that i got him. for good reason apparently. he had a good ast/topg ratio (3.5 to 1 i think) even when he was on your team playing combo guard, which is pretty damn impressive.

[frongi]

yea i loved jrue and feared i would lose him. no one wanted to give me anything good for him via trade though.

2 seasons ago westbrook was injured into the wcf and we didn't miss a beat with jrue playing for him.

to be honest i was a little pissed about the way the whole amnesty thing went down, but bundy has run the league way to well for me to give him any shit about it.