Visual Analysis of Minutes Played: Confirming What We Know

Farried is definitely more 1 dimensional than you'd like .

But frankly , if we are talking about "vs warriors" then capela might as well be one dimensional too .

I can't believe farried didn't get a chance .

 

Totally agree. Everyone always says Faried is unplayable due to his poor defense, and I don't disagree...but so was Capela! Capela was a huge negative on defense, and a huge negative on offense. If that's not 'unplayable' then I don't know what is. As long as Capela is going to play that bad...you might as well try out your other 'unplayable' guys and see who is the best out of them.

 

THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU, @napalm06!

A great illustration on why the Rockets need *Playoff Depth* bench players. Players 6-8. When the margins for error are so small these things matter.

Regular season depth is nice to overcome injuries and help get a top seed. But *Playoff Depth* is COMPLETELY DIFFERENT. Guys that can ratchet up their game to the next level and contribute or as @napalm06 said, *not become a liability.*

This needs to be a point of emphasis for Daryl Morey this summer.

*8 playoff worthy rotation guys*

 

I think it is both. Add in 1 more *high ceiling player* AND get playoff bench guys *6, 7 and 8.*

A lot to ask? Yes. But that's why it will take. And remember we have Tilman "Whatever It Takes" Fertitta to lead the charge.

 

looks like the lineups got smaller in playoffs than regular season.

 

"Is this year's Rockets team better than last year's?"
"This team goes 9/10 deep!"
"This bench is better than last year's!"

 

House looked like deer in headlights in the playoffs.

This is all on Morey imo, he didn't really bring is playoff ready players off the bench.

 

Nice analysis and no arguments - passes the eye test. But I would argue fatigue is not what doomed us. GS was even more short with the injuries. We simply didn’t box out and execute when it counted in games 5-6.

 

Maybe fatigue was part of the reason that box outs and execution were not as crisp.

There is a lot of blame to go around. And a lot of this stuff is cumulative and rolls up.

 

Do you guys not remember how bad Faried is on defense. Because as bad as our defense was, it could have gotten a lot worse. And hes not just bad on ball hes bad off ball as well.

 

I do remember. I'm not suggesting he would be good, but Capela had a -15.2 net rating. He tanked both our defense and our offense. All I'm saying is MAYBE if we tried Faried his net rating would be...-13? Maybe even -10? I don't think Faried is the savior that dominates the matchup. I do not think he would be a positive on the court. I'm suggesting that just MAYBE he is bad, but less bad than Capela. If we got Faried to play 15ish minutes a game (rather than Capela) at a -10 net rating, we may have won that series.

 

Alright, thats a fair point.

I'll just ask you in a series that close would you really have trusted Faried in this situation? Trust him to be better than Capela who has been our guy and better all season long, who at least knows the switching scheme properly? I dont think that I would. But I guess I can now see that playing Faried might not have been AS bad as I previously thought.