Rockets are struggling this season

The Houston Rockets are just 27-28 this season and don’t look anything like a serious contender. There is reason for alarm. Here’s the Houston Chronicle reporting:

The Rockets could no longer deny the reality. They had lost interest in the season-long exercise of fooling themselves.

The Rockets took another bad loss into the break. They were smacked around by the Trail Blazers with all the familiar shortcomings through their stunning fall this season glaringly evident on the way to a 116-103 loss that did not seem nearly that close.

They fell to 27-28 and to ninth in the Western Conference, closer to the bottom four teams than the top four that they had once assumed would include them. Save a few misleading stretches on Wednesday, they had spent the night bouncing from disinterested to disillusioned, playing like strangers or worse.

When they were through, the Rockets could no longer cling to the memory of what they once were or expected to be. They faced what they had become with center Dwight Howard and guard James Harden meeting with Rockets interim coach J.B. Bickerstaff and general manager Daryl Morey long into the night.

Author: Inside Hoops

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