They've now experienced the first rigors of an NBA schedule, and it's time for the team to grind out some wins.
The Houston Rockets lost the second night of a back-to-back to the Utah Jazz, 125-133, getting out-rebounded and out-manned throughout essentially the entire course of the game. That, in and of itself, is certainly not the end of the world.
Yet, the Rockets have had one of the strangest schedules in the NBA so far this season, and, as this pair of games represented their first back-to-back, it also could come to represent the first real trial for this new iteration of the Rockets.