This season has been absolutely terrible for the Houston Rockets. There are no ifs, ands, or buts about it. It is simply unfathomable that a team that won a franchise record 63 games last year and was largely unchanged could be sitting under .500 25 games into the season and in 14th place in the Western Conference.
The team really lost only Trevor Ariza and Luc Mbah a Moute from last year’s squad as people who regularly contributed. They added James Ennis and Carmelo Anthony to replace them.