Houston Rockets - 11W in Last 12. They are legit.

[reamily]

No one will believe me saying that tari eason injury is much more impactful than senguns..houston does have more movement and shots without him and having a defensive minded center landale can be better in certain situations but amen thompson is the x factor on this wins..

[K_chile22]

No one will believe me saying that tari eason injury is much more impactful than senguns..houston does have more movement and shots without him and having a defensive minded center landale can be better in certain situations but amen thompson is the x factor on this wins..

Think the real difference is Jalen being good when he was a disaster most of the year. Amen has been fantastic as well though and Jock is also having a late season surge after being unplayable all year (think that was his off-season injury lingering). Disagree with your first point but if Tari played even 45 games they'd probably be at least tied with LAL

[reamily]

I also think cam whitmore can play the position amen plays if they decide to have a traditional 5

[Castle Black]

I’ve seen enough. They’re clearly much better without Sengun. They should trade him to another team like the Spurs (off the top of my head) so they can continue to flourish without him.

[Shock Defeat]

They are a team on the rise. Next year I expect him to take another leap

[Scalabrine]

6 of their last 9 wins have been against the Spurs, Wizards, Blazers and Bulls. Consistency is impressive, and they play hard every night, but those are all games that they should win. It'd be more alarming if they didn.t

[reamily]

They were consistent at home.. and they lose some winnable games at the road early season..

[reamily]

Glad to see Jalen Green turn it around efficiency wise. He's looked better since Sengun went down, maybe more space to work with? Or maybe just more confident now that it's on him to be their best scorer? Either way, very encouraging and gotta be nice for him to prove the people who were insistent they sell-low on him wrong.

Rockets getting this experience playing meaningful end of season games is good for their young core, regardless of whether they make the play-in this year or not.

Yeah, the competition has been weak, but I've been watching the games, and Green has been great. I think he changed his approach in the last month or so. He started by going to the hole more and locking in more on defense. Then he caught a rhythm from the outside, and the numbers speak for themselves. You have to do it against the weaker competition before you can do it against the best, so I like the progress.

EDIT: There is the possibility that Sengun being out has opened up the floor more for Green's drives, but Green being more aggressive is also a factor. They can definitely play together if they both develop in the right direction (Sengun needs to learn to shoot; Green should learn to run a pick and roll with Sengun), especially with all of the other defenders on the roster.

All the time udoka goes pnr with fred and sengun as fred being the veteran..they were only few instances where sengun and jalen play pick and roll and majority of the time it is when jalen struggles offensively..

And you are corrwct sengun shoot one handers in the shded lane.. jalen needs a clear shaden lane for his offense..so as amen. Fred shoots mid range efficiently to work the pocket game with sengun

[AussieCeltic]

Jock looking good again today. He was an MVP over here in Australia, so no surprise he can atleast hold the fort until Sengun returns.

[durden_tyler]

Legit playin team? Could be. But depends if Warriors/Lakers and some continue to struggle.

[mako]

The conspiracy theory in me tells me that the rockets won't make the play-in.. not because they don't have the ability to, but because the league won't allow it. A lakers vs Warriors play-in game would be record breaking.

[baldur]

It's funny they almost spared sengun after winning two times against each of San Antonio and Washington.

[baldur]

The conspiracy theory in me tells me that the rockets won't make the play-in.. not because they don't have the ability to, but because the league won't allow it. A lakers vs Warriors play-in game would be record breaking.

Lakers and Warriors have been sharing those seeds for months. It's conspiracy if it is not changed in the remaining 2 weeks?

[pr0wler]

I’ve seen enough. They’re clearly much better without Sengun. They should trade him to another team like the Spurs (off the top of my head) so they can continue to flourish without him.

lol.

Yeah sick 4 game sample size, 3 of which were against scrub teams, to make drastic, franchise altering decisions about a center who was averaging 21 PPG in only his 3rd season.

[Raps in 4]

So they're 8-2 in a stretch where they played 3 bottom feeder teams 5 times?

[Harry Palmer]

So they're 8-2 in a stretch where they played 3 bottom feeder teams 5 times?

9-1.

[QPR]

Jock looking good again today. He was an MVP over here in Australia, so no surprise he can atleast hold the fort until Sengun returns.

Sengun's injury is great news for the Boomers and Paris.

[Frankie]

Just take it one game at a time and hope Warriors and/or Lakers lose their next game.

[Sane]

There are at least half a dozen playoff teams who don't win 9 out of 10 games against bad teams. Some props are deserved at this point.

Rockets are 1 game away from .500 right now which is incredible considering who they were exactly 1 year ago (a 20-win directionless team terrible at defense and offense). Our net rating is better than our record and better than a few top 10 western teams. We're a top 10 defensive team (top 5 when healthy). Rockets are legit but we're in a conference where the 7-10 seeds contain Luka Doncic, Kyrie Irving, Anthony Davis, Lebron James and Steph Curry. That's amazing for a team that plays 6 under 22 players in their core rotation (Sengun, Jabari, Tari, Amen, Green, Cam).

Honestly with better health this team would have made the playins already. We couldn't absorb losing Sengun, Tari, Cam. Those might be our 3 steadiest producers on a nightly basis. It's a testament to the squad's spirit and discipline that guys are stepping up and we're putting in such a strong run. Most teams - even good teams - would fold in such a situation.

[bstein14]

Are Sengun and Green both getting huge max or near max extensions this summer? If not, that becomes an interesting dynamic for next season for sure. Both are going to want to get PAID and both could possibly get near max deals or maybe even max deals on the open market the following summer.