3 Issues the Houston Rockets Must Correct Before the NBA Playoffs

March 17th, 2016 by Kelly Scaletta Leave a reply »

The Houston Rockets are a dichotomy. They were either the best bad team in the NBA last year, or they’re the worst good team in it this year.

It's hard to explain why a squad that won 56 games, earned the No. 2 seed and made it to the Western Conference Finals a year ago has been so volatile this season.

General manager Daryl Morey was live from the MIT Sloan Analytics Conference with FiveThirtyEight.com’s Hot Takedown podcast. With an open degree of honesty, he answered some questions about the Rockets’ struggles and what needs fixing.



Particularly, three things he said offered a peek into what the Rockets need to solve if they’re to have some modicum of playoff success.

 

Stabilize the Defensive Effort When he was asked about his defense and why it was good last year and isn’t good this year, Morey said:

If there was a straightforward ABC [that] needs to be corrected and we’re gonna apply solution XYZ, we would have done it, so we’re assessing, we’re trying to find (answers)….

(Our due diligence) is a ...

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