The ghosts of last season popped up in last night’s 117-107 Houston Rockets loss to the Minnesota Timberwolves. Up until last night, Houston seemed to have largely fixed many of the problems they had last season. Had they been right all along about what Fred VanVleet would mean to this team?
Well, last night, even with VanVleet, the Rockets suffered through some poor fourth quarter offensive execution, which was a hallmark of last year’s team (blowing leads), and gave up a 10-2 run midway through the fourth after leading by a couple and finished in a 10-point defeat.