If you're talking about rating the Rockets' success, any of them would be a step-up for us, considering there's been no playoffs since 1999.
Other -- ourselves; we have the talent, no doubt. Hopefully the personalities will mesh (it seems like they are now) Ming will find a way to fit in, esp. if he keeps his personal expectations low for the first year.
Ordinarily, it is not considered a good thing to beat yourself. For some reason, that grammatical construction means you lost.
I think the real answer is: "All of the crap teams". Our achilles heel the last few years has been losing to teams that we should beat - the Heat, the Clippers, etc. I'd settle for beating the weak teams most of the time and actually being in a game with Sacramento for a change.
my vote is for the nuggets because if we cant beat them we are in some real trouble. jk, i went for the kings.