Why the Rockets are the Favorites to Win the NBA Championship

Hello everyone, and welcome back to the Super Sreepal Blog! This week I will be talking about how the Rockets have the best chance of winning the 2018 NBA playoffs.

Steph Curry is back and the Warriors are killing the Pelicans. But we can’t forget about the Rockets all too soon. They as a whole completely outperformed every other team on the sheer shot creating abilities of James Harden and Chris Paul. The duo has multiple shooters, defensive players, and an extremely underrated big man(Clint Capela) as their supporting cast.

The Rockets had a 65-17 record and are up 3-1 against the Jazz and still are not looked at as the favorites to winning the NBA Championship which I feel they should be.  Even with James Harden missing significant time due to injury the Rockets didn’t miss a beat and continued to be head and shoulders above the whole NBA. I truly believe the Rockets have hit gold with their mix of star players and supporting cast, which is extremely hard to do with star players in the NBA, which was shown by how the OKC Thunder’s big 3 blew up and lost in the first round of the NBA playoffs.

The main reason for the Rockets success is obviously Harden and Paul but supporting players like Eric Gordon and Clint Capela do not get nearly enough credit for the Rockets continued success throughout Harden’s absence. Capela averaged 13 points and 10 rebounds on 65% shooting and had multiple big games during the season. He is only 23 and looks to be a huge presence under the basket in the NBA for years to come. Eric Gordon has been the best sixth man in the league outside of Lou Williams throughout the whole season. He averaged an extremely quiet 18 points and served to stretch the floor for James Harden and Chris Paul to run pick and rolls and dribble-drive.

 

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Thank you for reading the Super Sreepal blog, I will be back soon with predictions for the rest of the playoffs and some more analysis on each of the teams that will make it to the conference finals.