The beginning of the National Basketball Association‘s regular season is about a week away yawn, so Dave Berri provides this excellent statistically-based evaluation of the 2007-08 Houston Rockets. Despite the local mainstream media hype, Berri’s evaluation of this edition of the Rockets is the same as mine — probably quite good and better than last season’s good team, but likely still not good enough to beat any of the the top three teams in the Western Conference, Dallas, San Antonio and Phoenix.
For the record, it’s been over a decade since the Rockets won a playoff series.