No one said it was going to be easy. The Rockets have been playing great basketball all season, and the Sacramento Kings were going to have a tough fight. But a nearly 30 point blowout remains unacceptable, particularly when it was the starters who came up short in a big way.
If we're being completely honest, the first half of the game wasn't that bad. By the end of the second quarter, the score was 52 to 51 in favor of the Kings. Being this is the NBA, a one point lead is utterly meaningless if the game isn't over.