NBA, Houston: 6 wins in a row after 15 consecutive losses, never before

The NBA slogan a few years ago was “Where Amazing Happens“, the place where wonderful things happen. And only in the NBA has that happened a team lost 15 consecutive games and then immediately afterwards had six wins in a row, a sudden change in performance that the Houston Rockets. According to Elias Sports Bureau, such a thing had never happened in the history of American professional sport, thus including the leagues of football (NFL), baseball (MLB) and ice hockey (NHL). The Texans have shifted gears in the last two weeks after they were the first rumors began to circulate on the bench of coach Stephen Silas in danger, striking in a surprising way Chicago e Charlotte to then defeat peers like Oklahoma City (twice), Orlando and New Orleans tonight.

The numbers behind Houston’s shifting gear

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Also thanks to the injury of rookie Jalen Green, Houston began to perform better on offense (fourth best in the entire NBA since streak started) and to be at least mediocre in defense (17th defensive rating), with the ninth best differential in the whole league and establishing itself as the only team undefeated in this time frame. The big secret is the three-point shot: Houston scored more than 17 triples on average in the last six games, touching 42% from three points with a sensational 49% from the corners, for an actual percentage of 59.2%. A completely different story compared to 52.3% of the first 16 games, even if the surge is easily explained: the Rockets’ shooting selection has always been excellent, stabilizing around an “expected” 55% based on the conclusions created. Except that before they never scored and now they always mark, rebalancing (as often happens with the passing of the seasons) their seasonal averages. Will it be sustainable? Meanwhile, they have abandoned the last place of the Western Conference and have climbed up to a respectable 13th: the goal of the season remains to earn the best possible choice in the next Draft (perhaps to get our hands on Paolo Banchero), but in the meantime also giving some satisfaction to your fans is not to be disdained.