Houston Rockets 2011-2012 Schedule Released

by ak2themax on Dec 6, 2011 7:05 PM CST in News

Just some basic superficial facts about the 2011-2012 Houston Rockets schedule. Link here.

The first thing you notice is that the schedule is composed of several long road trips followed by long homestands. Makes sense.

The Rockets only have one back-to-back-to-back, and they get it out of the way early (12/29 vs. SA, 12/30 @ Mem, 12/31 vs. ATL).

The NBA lied to us: we don't have to play each Southwest team four times. We play San Antonio and Memphis four times, but we only get New Orleans and Dallas thrice each.

Total number of back-to-backs: 21 (counting the b2b2b: 23)

Western Conference teams the Rockets play three times with two games on the road: Dallas, LA Lakers, LA Clippers, and Portland.

Western Conference teams the Rockets play three times with two games at home: New Orleans, Sacramento, Utah (HA!), and Golden State.

Western Conference teams the Rockets play four times: San Antonio, Memphis, Phoenix, Denver, Oklahoma City, and Minnesota. Coincidentally, Rick Adelman returns to the Toyota Center on January 30, 2012.

Eastern Conference teams the Rockets play twice: Charlotte, Washington, Toronto.

Eastern Conference teams that will travel to Houston: Atlanta, Detroit, Milwaukee, New York, Philadelphia, and Indiana.

Eastern Conference teams that will NOT travel to Houston: Orlando, Boston, New Jersey, Cleveland, Chicago, Miami. So, no LeBron, Wade, Bosh, KG, Pierce, Allen, D-Will, D-Rose, or Dwight Howard for Houston residents. Assuming they don't get traded, of course.

So, for the east, it's mostly winnable games at home, and tough games on the road. Interesting.

What do you think?

Update From Tom: Number of times Houston will play an opponent who is finishing its back-to-back: 27. That makes that 23 number a little easier to swallow.

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have no idea why we play

Phoenix, OKC, Denver, and Minnesota 4 times and Dallas and NO 3 times, but I guess it’s whatever. I’m pleased with the only one back to back to back, and gald we get it out of the way early. The early part is brutal, I think 8 of the first 10 are vs playoff teams, but there’s a stretch of favorable games in January. Also, play Charlotte, Washington, and Toronto twice of the EC teams, why thank you very much.

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by jake_471 on Dec 6, 2011 7:36 PM CST reply actions

Yeah

Thought we got a good break with the EC. Would we beat Orlando, Chicago, Miami, Boston at home? We might beat one, but not two of those four. So only playing them once is great. The home games are all winnable, and it’s nice to get our kryptonite (Philly) in Houston.

Only playing the Lakers and Mavs three times is nice, too.

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by ak2themax on Dec 6, 2011 8:13 PM CST up reply actions

without those teams

on the schedule it makes it easier to not give any national tv time.

by jbars on Dec 6, 2011 7:47 PM CST reply actions

Oh man.

This schedule looks rough seeing as we don’t really have a top notch home court advantage

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by .Bonzo on Dec 6, 2011 8:08 PM CST reply actions

It's tough

but everyone in the West has the same problem. Tough start to the season though, not far fetched to think they’ll be 0-5.

by twinkilling0303 on Dec 6, 2011 8:36 PM CST reply actions

Update!

See above.

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by Tom Martin on Dec 6, 2011 9:27 PM CST reply actions

Thanks

Where did you find that Tom? Or did you do grunt work like I did?

by ak2themax on Dec 6, 2011 11:26 PM CST up reply actions

Feigen's Twitter

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by Tom Martin on Dec 7, 2011 11:13 AM CST up reply actions

Honestly, we have a pretty good schedule IMO

by VBG on Dec 6, 2011 9:46 PM CST reply actions

Yes.

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by Tom Martin on Dec 6, 2011 10:37 PM CST up reply actions

I concur

Could have been a LOT worse.

by ak2themax on Dec 6, 2011 11:25 PM CST up reply actions

I'm coming home, i'm coming home, tell the world that I'm coming home...

duh duh duh Duh!!
Sorry, had to. I like this schedule. And seeing it..it’s so beautiful. It’s like I finally have physical evidence there will be a season now…I can start believing!

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by TheChuckwagonisrolling on Dec 6, 2011 10:48 PM CST reply actions

I feel like smacking the guys about the face and getting them pumped ...................and then running away.

I want them to “~~that word that cannot be mentioned because of you know who~~” so we get pick one, but I would also like a couple of playoff rounds to watch who stands up.

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by craigj007 on Dec 7, 2011 2:02 AM CST reply actions

With this schedule

I’m pretty optimistic we can go to the playoffs.
If we’re going to the playoffs, even if we loose in the first round, we get media attention (“Hey, this young team in Texas is pretty interesting after all, they were in PO and put up a decent fight”), and getting media attention is the easiest way to get superstars attention.

by RiiseRockets on Dec 7, 2011 7:39 AM CST up reply actions

Exactly, lets face it

most of these guys we are talking about never get past the sports section anyway.

by makinmajik on Dec 7, 2011 11:33 AM CST up reply actions

At least we have a younger team, and

Dragic,Lee,Patterson coming off the bench, could all start on other teams. Bud is not bad either, but with a back to back to back if we still have Twill and his game is on point then he has to get minutes during this brutal stretch.

by since86rocketsfan on Dec 7, 2011 10:42 AM CST reply actions

Initially, of all the talks about

playing 3.9(this short season) games per week as opposed to 3.4(regular 82 game sched), I didn’t think much of it. I figured these are world class ahtletes and it’s not going to have that big of an impact. But take Houston for example, there are 4 games per week for the first 6 weeks of the season!!! That is nuts. Sure, youth is on our side. But, what about guys like Duncan and Garnett and hell even Kobe… Popovich has always been great and has proven model for resting his players. But this is unprecedented. My guess too, much like this season in the NFL, we will see more and more nagging injuries. And coaches will really be able to distinguish who has kept themselves in great playing shape more so than in a regular offseason. Also, and this sort of off subject, why the hell are opening training camp AND free agency/transactions the same day?

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by jake_471 on Dec 7, 2011 12:10 PM CST reply actions

January is going to be brutal

7 games in 10 days (10th to 19th). OKC on back to back nights (6th and 7th). Atleast we get 9 of 11 at TC to close out the month.

I’m actually really surprised the Rockets didnt get dicked over by the schedule as usual. I think we got a pretty favorable deal especially by on having 1 B2B2B and getting it done in the first week. I was sure the Rockets would be one of the teams delt more than one triple stretch but I was happily wrong. The road swings get balanced out by equal home stands to rejuvenate. And lucky for us the benefit of our roster is that we are stacked with players at alot of positions allowing for reduced minutes during swings and back to backs.

Lets just get this season going already!

by Camouflage14 on Dec 8, 2011 8:39 AM CST reply actions

posted about this on my blog a couple of days ago

http://blog.sohummm.com/sports/basketball/breaking-down-the-rockets-schedule/

We certainly dodged a bullet by being an “unattractive” team. The Heat, for example, have to play all the big names in the East 4 times and all the big names in the West twice.

Looking at last year’s opponent records (not a really good metric), our opponents’ combined record this season is:

vs. East: 0.446 (~37 games won in an 82-game season)
vs. West: 0.532 (~44 games won in an 82-game season)
Overall: 0.508 (~42 games won in an 82-game season)

So our schedule is not tough. If we suck this year it’s going to be because of coaching/personnel issues.

by sohum on Dec 8, 2011 12:58 PM CST reply actions