About this episode
Joseph George (Silver Bulletin) and host Thomas Emerick drop in on Harris County May 2018, for this Game 7 showdown between the Golden State Warriors and Houston Rockets for a trip to the NBA Finals. If Houston advances, it would be their first escape from the Western Conference bracket since the days of Olajuwon and Drexler.
Joseph George is a sports analyst for Silver Bulletin and basketball analytics consultant for the NBA G League’s Mexico City Capitanes. This episode of Remember That Game made for a really fun chat about analytics in politics and basketball, particularly that revolution in the 2012-2020 period. What better game as a jumping off point than an interesting night for the three-point discourse, as two catalysts of this movement take the stage and one of them goes historically cold.
Also check out:
Joseph George's work on the Silver Bulletin 2026 March Madness predictions
COOPER mens’ NCAA basketball ratings
COOPER women’s NCAA basketball ratings
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More episode threads:
Perception of analytics in politics and basketball after Trump’s upset win and while the NBA transformed into a league more reliant on the 3
How the Rockets and Warriors of the 2010s ushered in the current era
Evolution of the American public’s relationship with analytics in both politics and basketball this decade, now seven NBA titles and two presidential elections in
Whether these the two best teams of the 2010s
How Daryl Morey’s obsession with spacing started way before James Harden
Is compiling stats and wins December-February less instructive than it used to be for identifying the best teams and players, in the era of tanking and load management.
With various popped Achilles in the 2025 postseason, what to do about regular season length
