Rockets Review: Keep on Rolling

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As a mea culpa for going on vacation right before the NBA season, DeQuiency will be writing weekly updates about the Rockets' season. Now we here at Two Eighty Eight aren't exactly sure how he's going to do this since he doesn't have CSN, but he is the boss so we're going to let him try.

So where are we now? 
So is it cheating to say that we are in the same place that we were last week? It is? Oh well; it's my column and I'll cheat if I want to. Last week,  the home team went 3-1 suffering the first loss of the season thanks to the Golden State Warriors. Let's break down the games and I swear to you, these games will get a lot more in depth when I am able to record and actually watch the games. Come on ROOT Sports! 

• Beat the Sixers who are on their way to 0-82.
• Beat the Heat who are when healthy are a 3/4/5 seed in the East this year but definitely not what they once were. 
• Beat the Spurs but since Pop sat Duncan, Ginobili (age) and Splitter (right calf injury), the Rockets basically blew out the B-squad.
• Lost to the high-scoring Warriors squad albeit without Howard (flu-like symptoms) and Jones (brusied right leg)

And that's why I said that nothing has changed  The Rockets won against a team that blatantly trying to lose and a team resting superstars for a play-off run in June apparently, but whatever. They lost to a very good Warriors team but with out 40% of their starting line-up. Their one "legitimate" win was over a Heat team that plays in the horrific Eastern division. One legit win out of six. I'm not saying that the Rockets are not a good team because they are. I'm just saying that the schedule has been a huge help.

@Rachel__Nichols it's early although the game that will magically determine if we are any good keeps getting moved back on us
— Daryl Morey (@dmorey) November 7, 2014

Story of the week:
We are taking a slight detour this week and talking about the Spurs and their habit of resting the older players.


Highlight of the week:

All together now............DAAAAAAAAAAAAMM!!

Last week: 3-1

For the season: 6-1