I’ll credit longtime TDS poster NVP with sparking this (hopefully useful) insight.
This won’t be much of a game recap, I’m afraid, because it’s pretty much like the other two games against Sacramento. Read those if you want to know how it went. Sacramento is a candidate for most efficient scoring team in the NBA this season. They know they can win any scoring contest with the Rockets, simply because they execute far better, and make open shots. It’s really that simple.
Most Rockets games feel pretty much the same as this, too. Like the cliche of “Doing the same failed thing again and again, and expecting it to work.