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17… 18… 19… ??

91-73 

Nets held to just 28 first half points and 47 by the end of the 3rd quarter.  Season lows.

7-0 sans Yao.  Who would have thunk it?  …and hot rook Carl Landry sat out his 2nd game in a row with a knee injury.

10 straight double-digit victories.  Longest in NBA history.

13 straight wins at on the home court.  Longest franchise home winning streak at Toyota Center since the 85-86 team won 20 in a row at the Summit

Nineteen straight wins.   Best in franchise history and fourth longest winning streak in NBA history.

One win away from the 2nd longest streak in NBA history held by the 70-71 Bucks.

One game behind the Lakers and Spurs for the number one seed in the Western Conference.

Rockets are now ranked number one in many major online Power Rankings.

Out of the last six teams to win 18 straight in a season, five won the whole thing and brought a championship to their city.

One Charles Barkley is getting drilled in post game interviews as he consistently bad-mouths the Rockets chances to do much of anything since Yao is out.  Is he?  The rest of the team doesn’t appear to believe in the hype that without Yao, they aren’t going to win.  Instead, it appears that they have forgotten how to LOSE.

The rookies are incredible.  Luis Scola just received the Western Conf’s Rookie of the Month award for February, finally knocking off Kevin Durant.  Not far behind him is fellow freshie Carl Landry.  Rockets GM was recently quoted as saying:

“He’s got no rookie in him right now. He’s playing like he’s been in the league for five years.  Anybody who tells you they knew he was going to be this good isn’t being straight with you. … We’re still waiting for him to play like a rookie.”

Atlanta and Charlotte are next.  Conventional wisdom would put a 21 up there before the big showdown on Sunday afternoon with the Lakers.  If this plays out as expected, Los Angeles would get first crack in helping keep Houston from challenging it’s ownership of the league’s present win-streak record of 33 held by the 1971-72 team. 

Jeff van Who?

Adelman’s improved offense certainly has risen to the equation as everyone kind of expected at the beginning of the season.  Took awhile for the players to adapt and take hold of it, but it’s there.  Look at Rafer Alston - are you kidding me?  Talk about your player that rose from the ashes and took advantage of a situation.  He was basically mince-meat after the summertime’s encounters with bad luck / decision making.   It’s the JVG defense that also found a way to stick around and keep foes at ridiculously low levels of output.   Can we just clone Shane Battier and put 3 of him on the floor at any given point in time?  That should hold the opponents to football scores on a nightly basis.  Mutombo has done so well, they’re practically begging him to come back for another year.  We’ll see.

The strategy for success?   One game at a time, right? 

Well, hell.  The Rockets have been saying that since January.

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