Houston Rockets Chuck Hayes (Photo by Rocky Widner/NBAE via Getty Images)
Houston Rockets general manager Daryl Morey recently spoke about the Rockets’ small ball experiment, including how Chuck Hayes was the early founder of the strategy.
Although it seems like a distant memory due to the length of inactivity in the NBA, the Houston Rockets employ a unique strategy, which became a national story line this season. The Rockets decided to adopt the small ball strategy, which was cemented when they traded Clint Capela for Robert Covington.
As soon as it happened, there were instant jokes from all of the national media outlets, including TNT and ESPN, which was further proof of how the Rockets were defying conventional logic.