i think the question is why did every FA target that the lakers and houston have in common spurn both? if it's about "analytics", then houston should have gotten someone. i do think it's funny that the media has said nothing about their strikeouts in FA as they dogpile on the lakers. i mean, dwight left la to join a team he thought was more ready to compete. and they've competed since he got there (not a real contender, imo, though), but nobody else has jumped to join up, despite the same level of effort in wooing FAs.
I think Houston is not really comparable to the Lakers. I think at the end of the day, nobody cares about Houston and their 17 fans. So they will focus on the Lakers...drama and stuff, you know. The Lakers are more than a basketball franchise...they are supposed to be entertaining beyond basketball....so they will "omg...hell breaks loosem...the Lakers don't embrace analytics" LOL. I promise you none of the guys that is saying that, has ever seen behind the curtain to know whats going on... sadly this is the new blogging mentality on the web these days. Somebody writes something...everybody picks it up and re-publishes without any research and its always "accoring to sources"...without even giving credit to the original source (which BTW is probably not a source to begin with). I hate how the blogging world has developed in the last few years. Even most papers have become awful. People get their dose of information online, not buying "yesterdays news" in a news paper the next day. This has led to less research and worse articles. They really have to re-invent news in this day and age... back to the original story: Lakers are kind of a big deal, Houston isn't.
Was referring to how they have struck out in free agency two straight years with the best analytics in basketball.
^lol, burn. not to derail this into a Houston hate thread (though I'm game...), but when they dramatically outperformed their point differential last year....where were all the smug e-wins bastards?
