So far this season the (1-3) Houston Rockets have played four games that have each looked completely different than the others, and Tuesday night’s 116-106 loss against (2-1) Dallas was perhaps the strangest.
In the season-opening battle against the Minnesota Timberwolves, Houston got steamrolled. In their second game of the year, they battled an Oklahoma City Thunder team that is far more dedicated to the tank than they are, and the Rockets were able to have their way.
Then against the Boston Celtics, the Rockets came close at times and showed a lot of grit, but it never felt like they’d actually come away with the victory and were only really in the game because of Jalen Green’s barrage of buckets that left him with 30 points on 8-10 shooting from three.