This reminds of WB's season 2 years ago.
Style over substance.
One cool stat, for one early playoff exit.
Depends on what you consider substance
During that stretch, the rockets have about 65% wins.
The substance is making sure that you diversify your one trick pony offense.
You can win a series that way but you'll fall out in the 2nd or 3rd round if you don't.
It is also using regular season for resting your 2 key players (Harden, CP) since they either become tired beyond good use or completely break down due to injuries. We have seen this movie more than trice.
I mean, the Dubs caught a big break when CP3 went down last year...
These new NBA rules probably help the Rockets more than anything.
Other teams are also catching up in 3PT attempt rate so you could also say that their philosophy's value is depreciating.
About GSW series, last year was last year and they didn't win it.
When you don't win you look at your weaknesses and try to diminish them.
They currently compete in this year and they didn't address to me the most important takeaways from their WCF loss:
Harden's overuse and him being constantly fatigued in the playoffs.
CP3 has already been injured and seemingly always breaks down in meaningful playoff games, so when they say "if they only had him", I'd say "I told you he gets injured when the game gets more physical."
On top of that their new owner is cutting luxury bills wherever he can and you shouldn't be cheap if you are truly competing for the whole thing.
IMO they are a rather fun regular season team (pretender) than a true contender.
And Hardens impressive, but in the title talk non-important streak, looks like the highlight of their season.
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