The story of Icarus is a parable about both hubris and glory. As Icarus flew too close to the sun, the wings on his back fell apart, sending him spiraling into the ocean below. Even in this failure, Icarus touched the sky.
The Houston Rockets are something of a modern Icarus.
The age of Moreyball was a glorious one, a grand experiment looking to drag the league into the future by example. The Rockets shot themselves into the great unknown of basketball analytics, making acquisitions and lineup choices that might have looked more like witchcraft than mathematics to the untrained eye.