The Houston Rockets have had a puzzling 2025-26 season, but Bleacher Report was right to give them an A in their report card. They just published an article grading every team's performance so far, and the Rockets brought home a great mark.
It's weird. It doesn't feel like an A season so far, does it? The Rockets have lost to (or narrowly beaten) far inferior teams. At 16-6, they're third in the Western Conference. That's wonderful, but it doesn't establish Houston as the second-best team in the NBA as they'd hoped.
So if they're short of expectations, how do they deserve an A?