Thank God preseason games don’t matter, otherwise Rockets fans would likely be in hysterics over the depressing aloofness displayed by Houston in each of the last preseason games’ endings. Except that these games sort of do matter, especially in building a level of confidence in role players needing just that before entering Kobe Bryant’s dojo [...]
Where Rockets fans see a real opportunity for the team’s best player to get healthy on his own terms, the rest of the NBA smells weakness. It’s the reason the 24-minute minute ceiling caused such hubbub; here appeared to be an NBA team admitting its supreme talent couldn’t hang all game, blood in the water [...]
Once, in a time that seems much longer ago than it actually is, the Houston Rockets could not pass the ball to Yao Ming when the defense wanted to deny this option; because of this stratagem, the offense tended to flail and invariably collapse into an array of contested jumpers and misguided drives that ended [...]
In China, games, even preseason ones, have to be played with a requisite level of respect for the NBA’s most important market outside of the United States. The two teams called upon as ambassadors, the Houston Rockets and New Jersey Nets, did not disappoint on that front. And for once, if even in the preseason, [...]
It seems the rest of the league has caught wind of the Houston Rockets’ dirty little secret: no one knows what the hell is going to happen this season. Yes, every NBA team will enter this new season, particularly after the seismic shifting of the plates beneath any NBA fan’s feet this summer, with a [...]
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