There certainly is some truth to that — basketball teams have always liberally stolen from each other’s most-effective schemes, as organizations in all sports do. But if you actually look around the league,

The Rockets ranked last in ball movement, averaging just 294 passes per 24 minutes of possession, and they were 25th in player movement (10.7 miles per 24). While Golden State led the league by a wide margin in assist rate (recording assists on 71.4% of their field goals), Houston ranked last (54.9%) by an even wider margin.

I think what we do well favors us in the playoffs,” Rockets coach Ime Udoka says. “Being physical, being aggressive, we don't have to flip a switch.”