Rivers Rises Up, Sweeps Away Sacramento

Photo by Bill Baptist/NBAE via Getty Images Yes, that’s an Austin Rivers two hand yam.The scoreline looks predictable at 129-112, in favor of Houston. The Rockets, now 4-1 in the restart bubble, easily defeating the Sacramento Kings, now 1-5 in the seeding round. Expect the expected.

This is, as they say, why you watch the games, though. The Rockets started out possibly asleep, or deeply uninterested. They sportingly spotted Sacramento a quarter of just not caring, jacking bad shots, and turning the ball over, while also not playing much defense. Sacramento responded with their three point shooting specialists, Buddy Hield and Bogdan, Son of Bogdan launching 3pt attempts that barely seemed…