[AOL Sports Blog] How Has Houston Done It? Killer Offense

Very interesting take. I like it. I just think, even without Yao, there's NO WAY this team is going to 0-5 in that stretch.

What do you guys think?

 

Rockets have caught playoff bound teams either without key players or in slumps.

Sweep the Lakers, Boston, Hornets (West back, Birdman back, away game), Warriors, and Suns in that stretch then there's genuine hope of contending for the championship.

It'll be hard. The Rockets are the hottest team in the league. The above teams might use the encounters as mock playoff games.

 

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If everybody is healthy, I don't think so (knock on wood). We do have some tough games coming but not 5 in a row and that's assuming Denver could win at least 5 in a row.

 

Lakers
Celtics
Hornets (away)
Warriors (away)
Suns (away)

That's 5. In a row.

So you're saying that in order to create genuine hope for a championship, they have to SWEEP four West playoff teams and an East team which happens to have the best record in the league. Five games in seven nights, no less. Likely on their way to 26 straight wins in a row.

I would say you might want to lower your standards just a bit. NOBODY in the NBA would sweep that 5 game stretch, even the Lakers or the Celtics (if you replaced them in their own schedule with the next best team, of course).

 

Sig material, right there.

 

If you play a team twice during their 18 game win streak.........you might be in a slump!!!! Jeff Foxworthy

 

EEEEK!

Lakers are beatable too. They proved they don't have the defense to stop a team like the Kings. Lets hope that the Rockets can maintain their hot offense by Lakers time.

We were close in Boston when we weren't playing that well. This could be a battle of two big streaks!

Hornets will be pissed from the smack talk & they've shown they can compete. With a home crowd behind them, they might be scary.

Warriors are iffy & could respond to a challenge of trying to "bring down" a hot team.

Suns have shown they are beatable as they're still getting acclimated to Shaq, but he is coming on strong.

 

alot of you are either not watching all rockets games or just looking at the final score.

If my memory serve me correctly Rockets has been in the pass couple of years being playing great and winning huge games and beating teams.

The only probelm which we had was that we have problems closing them. remember how we away lead by double digit in half time, 3rd quarter, and all of sudden endup losing?

JVG taught us the D, but he fails to addr the O. RA came in and teaches O to us. now not only we were able to lead in double figure we can close them with our O.

I think our biggest challenge is the mid-march playing lakers, boston, spurs...

 

I posted in some thread a month or so ago that that five game stretch would be the test to see if we were any good, when we still had Yao.

Now I feel even more confident that we will come out of those five games with a winning record. The first two are really the only two I am worried about. Wee've proved we can beat the likes of PHX, GS, and NO.

 

I think we've solved this problem. Since Yao was out and BJ signed, Rockets did not have any 4th quater collapse. They were blowing out people in the 4th. If Landry comes back, we will be even better.