After last night’s underwhelming 100-91 loss to the Minnesota Timberwolves capped off a 1-3 week, the 13-11 Houston Rockets currently resemble anything but a playoff team. Kevin McHale’s crew sits at third place in the Southwest Division, butting heads with perpetual adversary Memphis for the eighth and final postseason slot, but Clutch City’s finest could not appear further away from NBA glory.
The painfully apparent truth of the matter is that Houston took advantage of an easy stretch of schedule, filled with Eastern Conference patsies, to ride a seven-game winning streak to its fullest potential. Since the streak fizzled at home versus Milwaukee, the Rockets have struggled with the uptick in difficulty. Saturday’s contest in the Minnesota tundra kicked off a murderer’s row of six road games in 11 days, and all of them against fiercer Western Conference opponents. A trip to Denver looms on Monday, Portland is on Wednesday at the fabled Rose Garden, an...
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PLAYERS:
Kevin Mchale,
Chandler Parsons,
Kyle Lowry,
Luis Scola,
Kevin Martin
TEAMS: Houston Rockets, Minnesota Timberwolves, Phoenix Suns, Golden State Warriors
TEAMS: Houston Rockets, Minnesota Timberwolves, Phoenix Suns, Golden State Warriors
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