speaking with Brandon “Scoop B” Robinson<\/a> and shared his thoughts.\u00a0<\/p>\n“We have a chance to do better. I mean, every season is different. The road is different and the style of play is different\u2026 I mean, before the swagger was different for sure. We felt like that we were\u2026 I don\u2019t want to say Hollywood but it was a lot of guys with that swagger thing that we had that felt pretty special.”<\/p>\n
Capela is supposed to say this. Players should have confidence in their respective ball clubs.<\/p>\n
This Rockets team would get beat in a postseason series by the 2017-18 iteration of the ball club. This year’s team is relatively top-heavy.<\/p>\n
Granted, that team was relatively top-heavy also. Both teams have three players capable of scoring 20+ points on any given night.<\/p>\n
This year’s team has Alperen Sengun, Kevin Durant and Amen Thompson. That iteration of the Rockets had James Harden, Chris Paul and Eric Gordon.<\/p>\n
However, the skillsets are different. For example, that Rockets team led the league in 3-point attempts and makes. They also ranked second in free throw makes and ranked third in free throw attempts.<\/p>\n
This year’s team ranks 28th in three-point attempts and ranks 25th in 3-point makes. The Rockets also rank 17th in free throw attempts and rank 20th in free throw makes this season.<\/p>\n
Again, there’s not anything wrong with Capela having confidence in this year’s Rockets team. We want that.<\/p>\n
But we can also note that this team isn’t quite as good as that 2017-18 team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 2025-26 Houston Rockets are on a near identical pace as last season’s team. Last year, the Rockets…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":599880,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":["post-599879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=599879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599879\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/599880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=599879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=599879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=599879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}