|
| View previous topic :: View next topic |
| Author |
Message |
Nobody
Star Player
Joined: 13 Sep 2008
Posts: 5733
Location: Ljubljana, Slovenia
|
 Posted: Thu Sep 17, 2015 2:30 pm Post subject: |
|
|
| Shlumpledink wrote: | Hakeem's Rockets were the first team to win the championship while having every team they beat win over 50 games in the regular season.
It has probably been matched since, but I saw the final game of the Rockets vs Magic series on espn classic over the weekend and they dropped that statistic. |
2001 Lakers: Portland (50 W), Sacramento (55 W), San Antonio (58 W), Philly (56 W).
2002 Lakers: Blazers were 1 win shy (49), San Antonio (58 W), Sacramento (61 W), New Jersey (52 W).
2009 Lakers: Utah was only 2 wins shy (48 W), Houston (53), Denver (54), Orlando (59).
2010 Lakers: OKC (50 W), Utah (53 W), Phoenix (54 W), Boston (50 W).
Some formidable opposition.
In 2005, San Antonio's only sub-50 win team was Denver with 49 wins. Same with 2014, one 49 W team, the rest over 50.
Notice a trend? No champs from the EC.  |
|
| Back to top |
|
 |
activeverb
Retired Number
Joined: 17 Jun 2006
Posts: 37470
|
| Posted: Thu Sep 17, 2015 5:04 pm Post subject: |
|
|
| Shlumpledink wrote: | Hakeem's Rockets were the first team to win the championship while having every team they beat win over 50 games in the regular season.
It has probably been matched since, but I saw the final game of the Rockets vs Magic series on espn classic over the weekend and they dropped that statistic. |
Ironically, that was largely a function of Houston not being that good in the regular season. After their first ring, they really dropped off the next year, winning 11 fewer games and decreasing from 2nd best defense to 12th best.
Normally, the ring team is better during the regular season, so they get an easy first round matchup. Houston, in contrast, was only the six seed in the west that year, so they were the under-50-win team.
In fact, I think they are one of only three sub-50-win teams (not counting shortened years) to win a ring. The other two were during the ultimate parity era, the 1970s. |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
Telleris
Star Player
Joined: 28 May 2013
Posts: 2371
|
| Posted: Thu Sep 17, 2015 5:42 pm Post subject: |
|
|
| activeverb wrote: | | Shlumpledink wrote: | Hakeem's Rockets were the first team to win the championship while having every team they beat win over 50 games in the regular season.
It has probably been matched since, but I saw the final game of the Rockets vs Magic series on espn classic over the weekend and they dropped that statistic. |
Ironically, that was largely a function of Houston not being that good in the regular season. After their first ring, they really dropped off the next year, winning 11 fewer games and decreasing from 2nd best defense to 12th best.
Normally, the ring team is better during the regular season, so they get an easy first round matchup. Houston, in contrast, was only the six seed in the west that year, so they were the under-50-win team.
In fact, I think they are one of only three sub-50-win teams (not counting shortened years) to win a ring. The other two were during the ultimate parity era, the 1970s. |
50 wins is a bit of an undersell though, the worst record they faced was 57-25
_________________
I believe everything the media tells me except for anything for which I have direct personal knowledge, which they always get wrong |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
activeverb
Retired Number
Joined: 17 Jun 2006
Posts: 37470
|
| Posted: Fri Sep 18, 2015 8:27 am Post subject: |
|
|
| Telleris wrote: | | activeverb wrote: | | Shlumpledink wrote: | Hakeem's Rockets were the first team to win the championship while having every team they beat win over 50 games in the regular season.
It has probably been matched since, but I saw the final game of the Rockets vs Magic series on espn classic over the weekend and they dropped that statistic. |
Ironically, that was largely a function of Houston not being that good in the regular season. After their first ring, they really dropped off the next year, winning 11 fewer games and decreasing from 2nd best defense to 12th best.
Normally, the ring team is better during the regular season, so they get an easy first round matchup. Houston, in contrast, was only the six seed in the west that year, so they were the under-50-win team.
In fact, I think they are one of only three sub-50-win teams (not counting shortened years) to win a ring. The other two were during the ultimate parity era, the 1970s. |
50 wins is a bit of an undersell though, the worst record they faced was 57-25 |
True. Because they started off as the sixth seed, they hit the three toughest teams in the West. So they set themselves up for a hard path because they failed to take care of business in the regular season. |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
|
|
You cannot post new topics in this forum
You cannot reply to topics in this forum
You cannot edit your posts in this forum
You cannot delete your posts in this forum
You cannot vote in polls in this forum
|
|
