How This Unique Offense Became Historic And Then Failed

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Back in 2018, the Houston Rockets had the most historic offense up to date. It was a weird idea at that time especially when teams were emphasizing ball and player movement. Today we go over why this offense was historic and what happened against Golden State. If you enjoyed the video, like & sub :)
00:00 - Intro
1:22 - What was the Rockets offense?
3:02 - Rockets iso offense
5:42 - How the Rockets became historic
11:52 - Rockets find success against GSW
15:07 - What went wrong?
20:31 - Overall takeaways
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@paraminderdhanota9810 Год назад

Ik you were joking about wasting time on more videos like this, but seriously, I would love more videos like this. As a basketball nerd, this is the stuff I live for.

@ananthanair4746 Год назад

Ong banger vid this is what always wanted 😭❤️✊🏽 I thought 7 min+ generous for Daniel but he pulled through like the goat 😤

@supplyingthedemand187 Год назад

YES! MORE 10,20,30MIN+ VIDS BRO

@Vaedik43 Год назад

agreed

@Thugg12 10 месяцев назад

Fax

@samsatchwill8228 Год назад

The 2018 Rockets had a 44-5 record in the regular season games that Cp3 and Harden both played in. That says a lot. I know people hated them because their style was all about iso ball and mismatch hunting but you can't argue with results. #1 offense in the league and it took a stacked GS team 7 games and a Chris Paul injury to take them out.

@iamkailong Год назад

It is so sad that this team need to run against GSW, one of the greatest and probably most unfair team to play against. I would argue this rocket was one of the best team ever that build around 2 star, non superteam.

@Jay-qb9gi Год назад

@@iamkailong they were up 3-2 against GSW before CP got injured

@iamkailong Год назад

@@Jay-qb9gi They surely have a chance to win that series, and may even win it all. However 3-2 isn’t a sure win, being the most unfairly good team that GSW was, it is still a 50-50 series. And this already tell you how insanely good this Rocket was at the time.

@yormeaceko7101 Год назад

Been saying this ever since. The biggest threat to the Warriors wasn't even Lebron, it was the Harden led Rockets.

@normanwu3697 Год назад

how come people dont hate luka's iso ball then?

@wuzi7049 Год назад

"Morey ball" was originally more a term to describe the close relationship they had between basketball and analytics. It really started around 2006-09 with his Sloan conference. The first two teams to embrace analytics were the rockets and warriors. Primarily promoting the 3 pointer. The rockets and warriors build in opposite ways. In the rockets case being because of their owner at the time refused to allow Morey to lose while rebuilding. Which is insane but he did do it. And because of the personnel they leaned into their respective styles. Perhaps having the guy who really got the ball rolling in the analytics revolution. As well as the coach who directly inspired it in dantoni, who had his own history. AND a player that perfectly lined up with the results of their lives... They took it to extremes. The rockets and warriors were really a historic perfect storm, that has really impacted the NBA. That rockets group doesn't get the credit they deserve, but they were critical to the evolution of the game.

@chiggsytube Год назад

Subtle mistake was actually trading for CP3, not because he was wrong, but because they needed CP3 from 2 years prior. The increased iso responsibilities you mention are probably the thing that eroded CP3's hamstrings. Note that Harden later also developed nagging hamstring problems. Good work. More please.

@kama6592 Год назад

The most interesting part of Morreyball is that despite breaking down the most fundamental concepts in basketball the Rockets came extremely close time and time again to defeating the most incredible team in NBA history. Even with the problems with injuries and teams scheming against them properly, a Finals win would have been very likely if it were any other team. Honestly I’d love to see a documentary made about this era of the rockets more than any other team because of that

@BigA678 Год назад

Always came close but never got there. Which is why Kobe said Harden/Morrey’s style would never win a ring

@imsleep6706 Год назад

@@BigA678 it can in the right circumstances

@AB-sw4kb Год назад

It was their defense more than their offense that bothered the Warriors. They were tough, forced a lot of turnovers, and switched everything, which makes the Warriors' motion offense and off-ball screens less effective than they otherwise would be.

@goobles3991 Год назад

@@BigA678 Kobe also probably said this helicopter ride is safe

@cyberft Год назад

The A’s have been running this same thing in baseball going on 20+ years. It seems the sports goods don’t like GMs trying to cheat the game with nonsense like that.

@MarekPar743 Год назад

As a Houston fan this video reminded me of my favorite and saddest season at the same time. This team was special man, maybe because of the simplicity but it was because of Moreyball I started to learn more about strategy, not just mindlessly watching games and box scores. Great job on the video, havent seen a better breakdown of that Houston squad anywhere.

@winnumber101 Год назад

don't be sad about the team, still one of the greatest teams ever to play in the sport, just unlucky with injury timing

@jidowu6019 Год назад

Why aren't you on NBA TV, ESPN, and Inside the NBA on TNT? Your analysis is second to none. You even get down to the finest details. You understand what you're watching. You leave out sensationalism and add a little humor. You articulate very well.

@buzzerbeater3350 Год назад

20:36 Everybody always shows Steph making CP3 stumble but no one shows Steph "floating" on the floor from CP3's ankle breaker!

@pratikahir750 Год назад

i love that ur adding more of your personality into these videos with the jokes lmfao

@whatscookinggoodlookin Год назад

I was def a believer in this Rockets era. Literally took a top 2 team of all time to beat them in 7. If CP3 didn't get injured in game 6, and that historic meltdown (27 threes missed in a row lol) didn't happen, results may have been different. Rockets would have won the finals too, cp3 and harden would be hunting down & abusing anyone who wasn't named LeBron. Although things do happen and injuries are a part of the game, it makes me think if Harden, CP3, and the Rockets' legacy would have been different in a kinder world 😮‍💨

@tincanpower9065 Год назад

this rockets team had such a defined identity. I feel like it's rare in the modern nba where every team tries to do everything at least decently/well. It'd be fun to see other videos about teams with strong playstyle identities

@kylewinborn Год назад

go Grizzlies

@verward 6 месяцев назад

Super interesting break-down. I think an important note to add to the "what went wrong" section is that they were up against one of the greatest teams in history. Of course they had flaws in their system, but the fact they took a 3-2 lead over the KD warriors is a serious achievement.

@clipntn1092 Год назад

that into 😂😂👍

@lebumjames1373 Год назад

into

@Henry-kv7zl Год назад

@@lebumjames1373 LeBum James

@lifejusbe Год назад

into

@joshualee9540 Год назад

those '18 and '19 Warriors-Rockets series have done irreversible damage to my mental health.

@BigA678 Год назад

The night they missed 28-30 threes in a row cemented that entire style

@yuchiachen3075 Год назад

Great video! The Rockets were definitely an interesting experiment and team to watch. Would like to see more deep diving videos like this!

@ethanrichey Год назад

Great video man. Love seeing you put more of yourself into your work. Keep it up

@grapplerke Год назад

Great video. You’re getting better and better at this.

@nick-ky7ql Год назад

I like the different types of videos, short breakdowns from an in-game moment, or long form videos like this breaking down an entire topic. Keep it up !

@maharajahdann Год назад

Great work Daniel, thanks and keep it up please!!

@christiandaequan Год назад

Good vid, keep making more and I keep watching

@smoothjb2384 Год назад

Your the man Daniel! Keep em coming

@chiggsytube Год назад

I believe you missed one of the constraints Morey was operating under: Rockets did not want to pay the luxury tax. To contrast, the Warriors pay the most luxury tax in history. 170 million in tax last year, which is why I'm doubtful Kuminga or Weisman is getting traded. They need rookie scale players to lessen the bite.

@cesar_dmr Год назад

Great video man

@TheDzPlayer Год назад

Great video, a nuanced take on these Rockets teams. It's easy and cheap to just go off that missed 3's stat, so good job breaking it down. Also, don't think I missed you including AD in street clothes lmao. Keep up the good work!

@notsocooldude7720 Год назад

Love ur videos man

@KimWe-a-xler Год назад

I can remember requesting for this vid about 2 yrs ago in one of your Google forms! Those Rockets teams were trend-setters! Much love bro!

@thesmiter1084 Год назад

more like this bro i was sad to see u don’t have more in depth vids like this

@martinleung8805 Год назад

Another masterpiece thank you brother

@bigflyboy13 Год назад

Great video

@kareemelhakeem9328 Год назад

Ok bro i see you with long vids 😤 Keep it up bro

@notmytruthTHEtruth Год назад

Despite your joke on Booker a couple videos back I'm still glad you're now doing longer videos. I've been following you for two years now so your videos are always appreciated.

@xStokelyx Год назад

Very nice video

@Loris71734 Год назад

I know you were joking about waste of time thing but this is the best basketball video I've watched for a little while now. Great stuff!

@astromigui Год назад

Awesome video, I loved the jokes too ! Thank you :)

@vicedm1145 Год назад

The cutoff at the end haha. You’re great though, very thorough

@figsu5319 Год назад

please more long videos. love the content

@pokerkid69 7 месяцев назад

Nice vid

@genaroflores939 Год назад

Bro finally a long video , thank do more

@rinqzywarren7320 Год назад

Yesss long form content !!!

@bobbyzhou4875 Год назад

as a rockets fan this was a little painful ngl but great video man

@Schraiber Год назад

Great video! I do think that there's a lot of outcome bias here though. The 2018 WCF could have easily gone the Rockets way and I think it'd be just as easy to describe a story of how their offense was optimally designed to beat the Warriors. I do agree with your main assessment of the problem though: if one of your main guys goes down, you're toast, because your whole offense is designed to be run through those guys

@edclee1997 11 месяцев назад

The concept of Golden State offense is to leverage the shooting prowess of Steph Curry and Klay Thompson to enable high percentage scoring opportunities for otherwise average players. It requires players who cuts, screens, and passes, and when the machine is humming, it's beautiful basketball that pleases the eye. But the machine doesn't work as well due to failures of individual parts, or any various reasons, that's when Kevin Durant comes in, takes his iso post and gets a decent shot, or at least that was the intention. However, KD never really bought into that completely, or GSW would have won 70 games every season. Similarly for Houston, Harden and Paul were great iso players, but they could both save a lot of energies involving teammates to do some of the creative work. It's not a coincidence that Paul gets hurt the further he's into the playoffs, and Harden's production tapered down as well.

@shamsielshahar120 Год назад

I also think they needed a reliable 3rd option if CP3 and Harden aren't doing well, like a 6th man who has the same skillset of Paul or Harden or maybe a big that can work in the post and can also space the floor or can do lobs.

@jesser6423 Год назад

Fantastic video. I wonder what happens if you replace Harden with Lebron. Just a thought. You should consider doing a follow-up video on the Warriors and how their offense evolved to where it was

@larryzhang865 Год назад

babe wake up, daniel li posted

@winnumber101 Год назад

chris paul as an excellent post defender was also an underrated aspect in terms of their team's scalability into the playoffs warriors would try to isolate KD in the midpost against him thinking it was a positive matchup but it wasn't an assured 1.1+ PPP proposition, which you would need to beat a team as good as 2017-18 rockets

@versatillion15 Год назад

I just saw DeAaron Fox & Sabonis on ESPN explaining their offense I would love to see you break it down a little more

@superBboy619 Год назад

You forgot to mention that there was a lot of bad calls during that game 7, the commentators were even pointing it out during the game.

@markalcasid6030 Год назад

22 minute Daniel Li video?!?! fuck yea

@Lance24123 Год назад

Need a video to breakdown Luka-ball and what do the Mavs need for competiting❤

@Themrajester2 Год назад

This may not be your style bit could you compare how era dynasties would match up against each other, score, schemes and things like that?

@fivestarsingh Год назад

Bro actually funny as fuck lmaooo

@unfranchised Год назад

Minus the occasional date mistake this was a masterpiece

@RevoZtuns Год назад

7:22 i fuckin cracked up out loud lmaoooo

@DanielKu-iq2mq Год назад

Yo you gotta cover the donovan mitchell 71 points! Coming from a fellow Daniel here

@fantasticman374 Год назад

I love this

@BrutusJrThe3rd 8 месяцев назад

My favorite offense of all time. Those Houston teams were averaging 40-50 3’s a game!

@lorenzoghassab6855 Год назад

Just so you know, your video got cut off at the end, we can hear you say "please let me know, besides" and it gets cut

@gregzadikian8511 11 месяцев назад

2:08 You are not slick putting AD in street clothes 😭

@brock985 Год назад

1:06 the Barry McCockiner quote LMFAO

@LilShrooms Год назад

long video let's goooo!

@lifejusbe Год назад

i could be imagining it... but that sounds like pink guy in the background music Edit: That definitely is stfu. I love it lmao great song choice

@buzzerbeater3350 Год назад

Daniel, how is the Houston's offense different than Read and React?

@Henry-kv7zl Год назад

Manboob era rockets were elite people sleep

@jidowu6019 Год назад

"they couldn't guard a traffic cone" 😂

@CS-ho4gc Год назад

2:10 - nice touch having AD in street clothes

@jh134mvp8 Год назад

i just know all them legs were cooked by game 7 with that small bench they always used

@BigWillieDillie Год назад

Once them calls went down... his productivity went down... man will lead in All Time FT

@williamgee6654 Год назад

Bottom line Houston had a championship stolen from them in the game 7 where they were fouled on 27 straight 3's and had one taken away, that game was as fixed as any sporting game i have ever seen. Pretty much turned form being a dedicated fan.

@sunboyjim Год назад

7:17 relatable.

@hienvo217 Год назад

is that stfu by pink guy in the background?

@WHITEPERSUAS1ON Год назад

You cant talk about the 2017-2018 Warriors series without talking about the absolutely lopsided officiating. Moving screens, fouling 3 pointers, fouling lay ups and calling off made 3s. It was disgusting

@theonlygoodonehere2259 7 месяцев назад

I don't get how you guys finally notice warriors illegal screens, they've been doing that since David Stern stepped down, their whole "beautiful ball movement offense" involves illegal screens, watched it with my own 2 eyes in the 2022 finals, disgusting, if we eliminated illegal screens or called it more, I wonder what kind of teams would truly win championships

@tutingrubena1584 7 месяцев назад

Golden State and their style of play just sent a message to Rockets' "unique" style of play that Basketball should be played the right way by sharing the ball around teammates and not by an individual alone cause basketaball is a TEAM sport.

@Abulkhirat9 11 месяцев назад

I like that you put AD in street clothes for that graphic 😂😂😂

@R.Spectra Год назад

I didn't even realise that was 20mins

@derrickpatterson522 Год назад

LMFAOOO had ad in the street clothes

@phealixosrs1831 Год назад

A very good analysis, but just because Paul's "shot" was back by the playoffs does not mean Harden could responsibly abandon his ISO carry. I probably don't have to tell you after going through so much film, but any Rockets fan remembers Paul unable to beat even Looney off the dribble.

@Phonsuk 9 месяцев назад

Mike D'antoni greatness can maximize any offense .

@glb4mkho 8 месяцев назад

i see. thanks.

@cutc2k764 Год назад

Probably would have worked if it wasn’t for chemistry the best players for this system

@PygmaApril Год назад

losing to the most unfair team ever assembled is not failing.

@winnumber101 Год назад

exactly

@harvyarmada5466 Год назад

Great analysis! Rockets system back then was one of a kind and very interesting with but it didnt take long for GSW or teams in general to figure it out.

@theonlygoodonehere2259 7 месяцев назад

no one really figured it out in the cp3-harden era, they just kept missing their open 3s, but the system in the harden era was figured out in like 2020 by lakers

@illogicalballhog1182 10 месяцев назад

It's not the Rockets that could've beaten the Warriors. I do think the Spurs would've crushed them if not for that Zaza Pachulia stepping on Kawhi Leonard's ankle. Kawhi would've destroyed the Warriors like he did in Toronto

@mac9120 Год назад

2:08 street clothes Davis xD

@derptroll012 Год назад

streets will never forget the 2018 rockets

@leonhardable Год назад

Regarding the intro - just dont. you dont want to watch this team. they looked premising at the start of the season, but what Chauncey, nurk and ant are cooking up right now is even more unholy than what Terry stotts ever did.

@golden-sun Год назад

I'm still optimistic. The team is better than the record. I think part of it is not having gp2 until now, missing other guys (who aren't huge but still have value (Winslow, nassir)), most games this season being on the road, and also a personal view of mine is theirs been changes with coaching and style of play that the team is still adjusting to. It explains the turnovers too, they're moving to a pass heavy style which can be good but I don't think they've figured it out yet. I feel like they can bounce back and make a run for the playoffs

@gsayago14 Год назад

Pull a gurl HAHAHA

@solliskuxxswag Год назад

Hopefully the Mavs see this

@ThePartarar Год назад

You might as well hit the like and subscribe button.

@WillisZhang Год назад

man so many unfortunate Steph Curry defense clips in this compilation, poor guy 😂

@Slame333 Год назад

In a sea of trash ass RU-vid channels who don’t know ball, we were given them gem. I will now be checking out the rest of your video bc clearly you know ball. (And are hilarious as well.)

@jgray2718 Год назад

I'm so glad this offense doesn't work well any more. It was incredibly boring and frustrating to watch Harden jack a 3 or drive, flop, and get free throws.

@winnumber101 Год назад

one of the greatest teams ever

@staceypayton5159 Год назад

when you allowed to "step back" bout 4 or 5 steps...THAT what makes the system work...

@chasezt Год назад

where tf did you find game 7 2018 footage

@francnzameyo8069 Год назад

lma nah AD in street clothes is hilarious

@gangstaxu Год назад

Rockets iso ball could of been so cold had Melo was healthy, they would could of been a warriors big 3

@SonTran-hr3mg Год назад

what people never mention about the asthetic of the houston offense is diversity. I think the league as a whole would be more fun to watch if there are a lot of difference teams with extreme difference in playstyle. It is much more fun to watch difference playstyle clash with one another then having every team running similar styles.

@DrMuffin1080 9 месяцев назад

Kobe was just flat out wrong for saying this way of basketball couldn’t win a championship. It almost did; the rockets had to face the KD Steph warriors and still took it to 7. Many other years they would have won