http://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/...ic-saturday-game-houston-rockets-ankle-injury With the recent celtics lost, we keep playing teams that arent fully healthy. Yes lets break our own previous 22 winning streak. Sad news gsw kept on winning without Stephanie.
With the recent Celtics loss*. Lose is a present-tense verb. Lost is a past-tense verb. Loss is a noun. This is the second most common mistake on Clutchfans, behind talking about Klay Thompson. Speaking of that - the Warriors had incredible injury luck in the playoffs for their first title. You take it when you can get it. It's just that as Rocket fans we're not used to being the team without the injuries.
Nothing wrong with that - the Warriors cake walked through numerous playoff series and at least one title facing teams with major pieces injured. If the Rockets got in the habit of letting the foot off the gas a bit, then I would be a little concerned but as long as they are practicing taking it to teams for the whole game, we should just take it as an opportunity to get some solid practice in - certainly that's what the Warios did.
Been checking other contenders schedules on a nightly basis and they've all playing teams with significant injured players. Pretty much evened out.
Injuries are a moot point. The real difference is East & West. Those teams out East should NEVER lose. Ridiculously easy schedules for the year. They basically get 2 week long breaks before they get to gear up to play a decent West opponent.
Yes and no. We have been getting lucky in facing opponents when they are hurt, but we also have been kickin ass in most games. Can't discredit us for beating bad teams
Can we just close the thread now? CP3 missed 14 straight games and we are talking about the Rockets "getting a break"? C'mon people. A legit discussion would be are the Rockets getting break (so far) by playing only 23 games when other teams have played up to 27. The mini-vacation in LA was a joke. Now they have 12 games in 22 days, which could be tough. They catch a break by having a rare 7-game homestand.
Rockets played the Jazz right before Gobert got hurt and then right after he came back. Rockets had to play a hot fully healthy Grizz team twice before they fell apart. Rockets will have to play the Spurs with a Kawhi whose coming back this week. Rockets didn't get to feast on a Davis-less Pelicans or a Wall-less Wizards like other teams in the West. Injuries happen and for the most part it evens out.
We are finally good enough like Golden State, Cleveland, and San Antonio to withstand a major injury to star player and still keep winning. We could not say that in any other year.
The Rockets have played 14 games without CP3. Several without Nene. And a few more without either Ariza, Gordon, Ryno, or Mbah a Moute. Let's not act like we've been the model of health this season.
Those are the teams we will beat with or without their injury. Trust me, when we get to play spurs or warriors, they will be at full strength. Heck, we even got the full strength grizzlys.
Is Portland your only example? What other noteworthy injuries against good teams have benefited us recently? Anyway, we've had our share of injury issues this year. Paul was gone for over half the season (and every single loss). Ryno and Gordon have missed time... Prob a couple other small ones I'm forgetting. It's part of the game... Not to mention that we have earned some injury credit after everything this team went through between 1995 and 2010... And 2015.
The other difference with Houston is that the media would point out those injuries as much as they can as the main reason we'd win anything. Another "asterisk"
