Rockets 1st Consecutive Wins w/less than 10 turnovers in Harden Era

From Feigen's article, https://www.houstonchronicle.com/sp...y-to-minimize-turnovers-a-key-to-12583924.php

In the 11 games prior to Friday's against the Nuggets, the stretch since James Harden returned from his hamstring injury, the Rockets had averaged 11.5 turnovers per game, tied for the fewest in the NBA.

Prior to that stretch, the Rockets had been averaging 14.9 turnovers to rank 19th in the NBA.
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Rockets are averaging <10 for the past 5 games as well.

9, 8, 11, 9, 11

 

Might as well post the rest of article, as there are some nice quotes.

"I see the difference," Harden said. "Efficiency. We're not turning the basketball over, we're getting more shots. Obviously, we already can score the basketball at a high level, but you give us an extra five, six, seven possessions per game, there's trouble."​

The Rockets have had Harden and Chris Paul together for 10 of those 11 games. Although Harden has averaged 35 minutes, down one minute from his average this season, and Paul has played 32.6 minutes, just a half minute more than he averages, D'Antoni said their workload is lightened when playing together, allowing them to better care for the ball.

"I told them that was a key to our success lately," D'Antoni said. "If you give us ... an extra 10 shots, that's a lot of points. If we can do that, I think that's a key going forward. If we don't turn the ball over, we're a heck of a good team.​

"To me, we're having guys out there that aren't as tired as they could be. When you get tired, that's when mistakes happen. James had to do so much last year, he might have an eight-turnover game. Chris, I'm sure was the same way. Steve Nash was. When you're making every play, guys get tired and they get to hone in on you. Now, they're sharing responsibilities and turnovers go down."​

I'm going to say that their bad TOs are partly due to playing their "why-not" 11-12 man lineups, that they won't play in the playoffs.