Rockets Lose Usefully to Kings 121-118

Hello, Future.Tonight the Rockets fell 121-118 to the similarly sad, but differently aspected, Sacramento Kings. The Rockets are, despite appearances, probably on the rise. The Kings are mired in nearly two decades of whatever this is. It’s hard to feel anything but bad for Kings fan, stuck in this fetid swamp of drowned hopes and expectations.

Tonight they won a game they’d just as soon lost. The Rockets won a game they quite possibly could have won, with slightly more effort, or organization.

It’s hard to say there was any coherent defense played (especially with the Rockets surrendering a 44pt 2nd quarter to the Kings) and there wasn’t much in the way of slick, or ever slightly slippery,…