Winning was enough. The way the season started for the Rockets, it was plenty.
It was not everything.
The Rockets' turnaround had brought signs of a revival. It had even delivered a blowout of the Golden State Warriors. It had not yet allowed them to declare that they were back.
They might have announced that with a Saturday night romp, with the of-fense that had been shaky flying through its best night of the season, completing a four-game, four-rout week with a 132-112 romp past the Sacra-mento Kings in their top-scoring game of the season.
After beginning the week coming off consecutive losses in which they scored 80 and 85 points and with one win against a team with a winning record, the Rockets beat a fourth-consecutive team with a record better than the .