Dirty Dozen: Rockets Fall Short Against Cavs, 101-90, as Skid Hits 12 Games
Stuck in Spain. Hospital Rockets. The Baker’s Comin’.
Despite a better effort than their embarrassing Saturday showing, the Rockets lost their 12th straight game, falling to the Cavs 101-90, as Houston digs deeper and deeper into the hole of obscurity. John Wall scored a season-high 32 points, and Victor Oladipo had 20 points, but it didn’t matter. Collin Sexton looked like a superstar-in-the-making, scoring a season-high 39 points to lead the Cavs in Houston. As the Rockets mentioned on twitter, they’re in Spain, but without the S. And unfortunately, if you’ve been following this season, that’s right where this team is at the moment.
Oladipo limped off the floor with a leg injury, hopefully it’s nothing serious, but the injury bug continues to hamper the squad. The Rockets are running out of capable bodies. Besides the failed-comeback against Philly, every loss in Houston’s current skid has been by double-figures. Basically, the Rockets have had their rear kicked every night. And if they don’t figure out some way to change this. Expect Houston to finish near the end of the standings, with at least a chance to get a top-4 draft pick. Who knows, after everything this city’s been through concerning their professional teams, a #1 pick to the Rockets only seems fair in my opinion. Call me biased, and I won’t touch on it in detail. But the last year in Houston professional sports has been the worst I can think of. Not just in Houston. In any city in the country. H-Town’s been through a lot with the Rockets, Astros, and Texans, pretty much since the ‘Stros won the World Series in 2017.
Some ideas you can’t imagine in life. Well up next for the Rockets, as they try to avoid their 13th consecutive loss, some guy named James Harden who wears number 13 for the Brooklyn Nets come to town. And Brooklyn’s red-hot, winners of nine of their last ten games. Their’s nothing more Chef Harden wants to do than return to Houston and torch the Rockets, baking up another victory for his Nets. Forget about effort… in their next game, the Rockets are gonna need luck.