First, allow me to apologize for the string of losses I’ve recapped. Really, though, blame Pacific Standard Time, as I’m on it, and most of TDS writers aren’t, and so don’t want to recap late games.
Since 2017-18 I’ve known that the Rockets were on the wrong side of The NBA Narrative*. The Rockets were there for the NBA’s Golden Boys to win the boss fight, and then smirk for the camera.
I thought perhaps that changed when The Evil Pirate Black Beard, I mean James Harden, sailed away, and the SS Houston sunk into a three year abyss of terrible basketball and ostensible rebuilding.