3 Players Who Still Have to Step Up for the Houston Rockets

November 18th, 2016 by Kelly Scaletta Leave a reply »

The Houston Rockets have been solid this season, sitting with a 7-5 record and tied with the Los Angeles Lakers and Oklahoma City Thunder for the Western Conference's fourth-best record.     

Most of the success has been because of James Harden, who is having a historically great season. He’s averaging 28.5 points, 12.8 assists and 8.2 rebounds per game. And he’s been doing that with an impressive 62.4 true shooting percentage.

There's another number that is eye-popping but probably too much so: Harden has the ball in his hands 9.3 minutes per game, nearly a full minute more than anyone this season—or, for that matter, since NBA.com started providing tracking information for the 2013-14 campaign.

To put that into perspective, the Rockets have the ball a total of 18.2 minutes per game. That means it's in Harden's hands 51.1 percent of the time Houston has the rock—and that includes when he's on the bench.

While Harden is doing incredible things, he needs a little more from his teammates, particularly when it comes to generating offense.

There are essentially thr ...

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