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Mar 26, 2024
Rockets Win To The Nines - Beat Blazers 110-92

Rockets Win To The Nines - Beat Blazers 110-92

So Many Randos... | Erik Williams-USA TODAY Sports Rockets Repel Rambunctious Randos The red hot Rockets purple patch continues to grow. That’s now nine wins in a row. Frankly, this wasn’t expected, but it’s very welcome. The Rockets are now a half game behind Golden State for the 10th play-in spot. While, again, the play-in is not some sort of long term aspiration for these Rockets, it’s a great short term goal for Phase II, something they can put next to the wave pool. This short term, Phase II, goal is now quite possible to achieve, as well. Standing in...
Mar 23, 2024
Rocket Duo Rocks Jazz 147-119

Rocket Duo Rocks Jazz 147-119

Breakin’ Out | Erik Williams-USA TODAY Sports Le Jazz Froid It might be NCAA Tournament time (go Cougars!) but the Rockets made their own Elite Eight tonight, with their eighth straight win. This win came against Le Jazz Cold, aka the Desert Tankers. Utah, despite a pretty good first half of the season has changed tack, and is now trying to dive to the bottom of the tank (good luck, with Detroit and Washington feeding off the bottom already). Fortunately for them, they were in absolutely no danger of winning this one, as it was essentially over after the first...
Mar 23, 2024
Rockets Look For Their Own Elite Eight (Consecutive Wins) Against Utah

Rockets Look For Their Own Elite Eight (Consecutive Wins) Against Utah

Efficient! | Erik Williams-USA TODAY Sports Eight Would Be Great Houston Rockets vs Utah’s Version of Jazz Saturday, March 23, 2024 @ 7:00pm CST Location: Toyota Center, Houston, TX TV: Space City Home Network Radio: SportsTalk790 Online: Rockets App Probable Starting Lineups Rockets: Fred VanVleet, Jalen Green, Amen Thompson, Dillon Brooks, Jabari Smith Jr. Jass: Injuries: Houston: Alperen Sengun (OUT), Cam Whitmore (OUT), Steven Adams (OUT) Utah: Omer Yurtseven (GTD), John Tom Collins (GTD), Lauri Markannen (Finished, For Now), Jordan Clarkson (OUT) It’s...
Mar 15, 2024
Know Direction?

Know Direction?

But of All The Thompson Gunners, Amen Was The Best | Troy Taormina-USA TODAY Sports Not Playing The Odds There’s something I’d like to get clear. The Rockets aren’t tanking. At all. That’s over. This is, after all, Phase Two. Phase Two has some lovely scenery, but is still definitely under construction. What is not in the plan for the build out of Phase Two is a tank. Military, water, gas, fish, air, or otherwise, no tanks are currently in the Rockets plans. On the ESPN podcast “The Hoop Collective” earlier this week Brian Windhorst suggested, at windy...
Mar 13, 2024
Rockets Trot Ahead Of Spurs 103-101

Rockets Trot Ahead Of Spurs 103-101

Going Nowhere, Victor. | Scott Wachter-USA TODAY Sports Maximum Mullet of Might! The Rockets have now won four games in a row, with three of those victories coming on their three game road trip. They’ve also won 5 of their past 6 games. Unfortunately the Rockets remain 5 games under .500, but every win brings them closer. Long win streaks have a way of catapulting teams back into the conversation for things like the play-in. That goal is nearly, but not quite, out of reach for these Rockets. They are playing their best basketball of the season right now. Sure,...
Mar 8, 2024
Rockets Roll Into River City Requiring Revenge Regarding Rampaging Randos

Rockets Roll Into River City Requiring Revenge Regarding Rampaging Randos

Just Gimme 25 Shots... | Troy Taormina-USA TODAY Sports Or, The Rockets Play The Trailblazers In Portland Houston Rockets vs Portland Trailblazers Friday, March 8, 2024 @ 9:00pm CST Location: Moo-da Center, PDX TV: Space City Home Network Radio: SportsTalk790 Online: Rockets App Probable Starting Lineups Rockets: Fred VanVleet, Jalen Green, Dillon Brooks, Jabari Smith Jr., Alperen Sengun Trailblazers: Who Knows? It could be anyone. It could be Clyde Drexler’s triumphant return on a 10 day. At 61. Oh, you think I’m kidding? Fine. Anfernee “HoF vs Houston”...
Mar 1, 2024
Rockets Questions For The Final Quarter

Rockets Questions For The Final Quarter

Joe Camporeale-USA TODAY Sports Let’s Crowdsource It! As the Rockets head into the final quarter of the 2023-24 season, it seems unlikely that they will be playing post-season basketball, barring some sort of almost miraculous finishing kick. Therefore it would be good to figure out what questions we’d like the Rockets to answer for us, if they can, in the final quarter or so of this season. I plan to write about these, and try to figure out what’s going on, what’s going right, or wrong. I’d welcome your questions as well, and will try to incorporate...
Mar 1, 2024
Rockets Stumble To 110-105 Loss Vs Suns

Rockets Stumble To 110-105 Loss Vs Suns

Two Bad Calls and Hypersensitive Referee Feelings | Joe Camporeale-USA TODAY Sports Should Have Been 108? Rockets Should Have Played The First Quarter? It’s tough to find positives in the Rockets 9th straight road loss. The started out abysmally, scoring a putrid 17 points in the first quarter, while giving up 33. So it seemed the rout might be on. It wasn’t. The Rockets second quarter featured an awakened Rockets team and a 21 point first half from Jalen Green, who was shooting the three ball well. Unfortunately, despite winning the second quarter 36-31. the...
Feb 29, 2024
Wretched Road Rockets Hope Avoid Rising Suns

Wretched Road Rockets Hope Avoid Rising Suns

Save Us Alpie Wan, You’re Our Only Hope! | Alonzo Adams-USA TODAY Sports Rockets Hope To Stop The Road Woes At Eight Straight Houston Rocketz vs Phoenix Sunz Tuesday, February 29, 2024 @ 8:00pm CST Location: Pawprint Arena, Phoenix Arizona TV: Space City Home Network Radio: SportsTalk790 Online: Rockets App Probable Starting Lineups Rockets: Fred VanVleet, Cam Whitmore(?), Dillon Brooks, Jabari Smith Jr., Alperen Sengun Suns: Devin “Neymar” Booker, Josh Okogie?, Grayscum Allen, Kevin Durant, Drew “ Brawlin’ ” Eubanks Injuries: Suns: Bradley Beal...
Feb 28, 2024
Thunder Beat Rockets 112-95

Thunder Beat Rockets 112-95

A Message To You, Ime. | Alonzo Adams-USA TODAY Sports Below Average Opponent Scoring, 17pt Margin of Defeat A second matchup with OKC in three days. Same result. Rockets hang tough for part of the game, and then utterly fall apart as their offense fails to keep pace. It’s not the defense. OKC averages almost 121 points scored per game. NBA team scoring average is nearly 115 points per game, at present. Tonight, in a game they lost by 17 the Rockets held the Oklahoma City Thunder to nearly 10 points below their season scoring average, and three points below NBA...

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