Coming off a string of tough games against the NBA’s elite, it was fair to wonder whether the Houston Rockets might suffer a letdown tonight against the lowly Cavaliers, as they did in late November when they lost 117-108 as part of a four game losing streak. It would not happen again.
Cleveland came into today’s game with the NBA’s worst record at 8-33. Without LeBron James, who they lost over the summer in free agency, the Cavs are akin to a headless chicken, capable of uncoordinated stumbles and spasms and not much else. The Rockets treated them as such, moving around and through them as if they were incorporeal and letting entropy do the rest.