There is a 0% chance that the Rockets win this game. In fact, I am so certain of this being an L for Houston, that I will promise to write a mailbag preview by the end of December. Those things are usually around 5000 words and an absolute pain in the ass to write, so you can tell that I’m pretty confident in this prediction.
It feels like the first matchup between these teams was ages ago, but it was about five weeks ago. The Rockets would drop their fourth straight game in a 104-85 blowout, but in reality the Blazers game was a harbinger of how teams would work over the Rockets.