I saw on Sportscenter the other day that the Rockets have had the toughest, strength of schedule to date in the NBA. If you had told me before the season that we had to play Mia, SA, Det, Indy, Dallas, Phx, and a HOTTT Memphis team twice, w/o T-Mac, I probably would have bet that we lost those games also. We have 65 games to go... If we can get through this soft 6 game west coast trip, with only 1 loss, we'll be at least 15-15 at the 30 game mark... The ROX will make the playoffs.......
on the excellent lowpost.net NBA blog, the author does a statistical analysis of schedules to date: lowpost.net/blog
Yeah, when you think about it, the Rockets are only one game worse than they were at this point last year, AND the schedule up to this point has been much tougher. Sure, there are questions about Tmac's health and our ability to somehow regain the magic of last year, but we can still easily get the 7th seed, maybe 6th if we can just up the intensity.
