Rockets can get to another level with one roster tweak

What playoff teams are we better than looking at 1-9. None of them imo. Maybe the Spurs but I wouldn’t bet against Pop in the playoffs.

 

Who cares? I was watching the Boston game yesterday and seeing Boston so happy and excited made me realize that was us at some point. Just happy and excited for nothing, come playoffs time they will get run over by Philly or Brooklyn... I mean even if they make the finals, have virtually no chance vs LA.... These next 3 years belong to LA, Brooklyn or any popular location everyone decides to team up in next... Our only hope is draft and develop or trade for a player right before he becomes an all time great....

 

With the fully healthy squad from the win streak, assuming no injuries, I think the rockets could potentially have a record that falls anywhere from 6 to 10. So Portland, GSW, Spurs, Mavs. I think Portland is worse than their record suggests, they have gotten lucky in a lot of games and have a negative point differential. We certainly aren't better than any of the top 5 but I think this roster, if fully healthy, could have ended the season with better records than all four of the teams I listed.

 

Well I think with this particular squad with injury prone guys(and that unfortunately includes Nwaba) having a fully available roster was never really going to be feasible. Portland is getting CJ and Nurkic back, would you still feel that way? Mavs now have one of the easiest schedules in the leauge with a top 10 player and KP looking healthy. Spurs may fall off, which would leave us with GSW in the play ins. Do we believe in beating Draymond and Steph in one game or twice in a row? The West is tough. And honestly....if you are depending on Woods between being a bottom tier team and a playoff team then Im sorry man, there is too much skepticism with me.

 

Your first point is well taken, it was optimistic homerism to expect this team to play without missing serious injury time. All of our main guys have been chronically injured their whole careers, so it should have come as no surprise. But yeah, in the fantasy world where all of our injury prone guys are magically healthy for a full year, I could see us with a better record than all those teams.