Houston Rockets: Their Bench Is the Hottest Team in the Western Conference
In my season preview for the Houston Rockets, I cited the current portion of the season as the "make or break stretch" for the team -- a six-game road trip against a bunch of pretty-good-but-not-great teams followed by a six-game homestand against mostly good teams.![]()
Let's hear it for the bench.
And once the season started, and the Rockets evolved into a fairly predictable group, essentially knocking off bad teams and struggling against good teams, this current road trip looked even a little more daunting.
But don't look now, after losing to Minnesota in the first game of the road swing (the infamous "Kevin Love Using Luis Scola's Face As Welcome Mat" game), the Rockets have won three in a row and the last two have been in a highly improbable fashion.
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