Rockets Survive Portland Rally

I've seen a game or two like this in this building. I'm trying to figure out if this was different, or just more of the same. If this was a confidence builder for Portland, or just a run-of-the-mill NBA game- you know, where one team grabs a big lead, the other makes a comeback, and the team that was supposed to win, wins. I'm hoping it's the former.In the second meeting between these two teams this season, also in Houston, the game went very much the same way. The Blazers got off to a decent start, the Rockets then built a big lead, and were able to finally put Portland to bed late in the game. After that game we were thinking that if the Blazers were just able to sustain momentum, get a big shot to get them over the top, and get a few big defensive stops down the stretch, things could have turned out differently. There were positives that came out of that earlier game, just as there were positives that came from this game. As dominant as the Blazers are at the Rose...