The Los Angeles Lakers and the Houston Rockets met up less than a week ago and it wasn’t pretty for the Lakers in any regard. In the final matchup of their eight-game road trip, they suffered a shellacking at the hands of the Rockets where only Kobe Bryant really showed much sign of life—and even that was too little too late.
However, the Lakers and Rockets will meet again on Thursday night and the tides have seemingly turned over such a short time. Not only will this contest be played in STAPLES Center—on Lakers turf—but the Lakers also seem to really be turning over a new leaf that hadn’t been fully realized in that matchup against Houston.