Houston Rockets
What They’re Thankful For: Analytics
The Houston Rockets – and their GM Daryl Morey – pride themselves on analytics. And their recent success is a credit to that thinking. They were the only team that viewed James Harden as a max player, because their analytics pointed to that. They saw something in Harden that not many, if any at all, other teams saw in him.
Even though the Rockets have fell on tough times as of late, a lot of their success is due to the NBA shifting to analytics. I’m sure they’ll figure it out eventually this season.
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