Kirk Goldsberry

This year's Houston Rockets team is on pace to set the record for offensive rebounding percentage by recovering over 40% of their own missed shots.

So yeah, they're not shooting threes, but when they miss, the defensive stop hasn't happened yet.

And a lot of those second chance points

you know, those second chances are among the most efficient options you can have as an offense.

And they just have more of them than anybody we've ever seen.

Credit to Steven Adams, but also Shingun.

And just one of the things when Van Fleet got hurt is, oh yeah, they put Amin Thompson in a point guard.

And by the way, I got in trouble by saying he's not a point guard.

He identifies as a point guard.

He has his whole life.

But the larger point is... Stop it.

I got corrected sitting next to some Rockets coach.

But don't say that about him.

Stop.

They can settle down.

But one of the things when Van Fleet went down is like, okay, now every dude in this lineup...

is a rebounder, right?

And so, Durant is one of the tallest threes when they're playing double bigs that you'll ever see in this league.

And then you have, you know, people like Tauris and guys like Jabari, Amon Thompson, who are incredible rebounders.

So,