Wrap-Up -- The Rockets might have taken the Wine & Gold lightly when they rolled into The Q back in late November. They didn’t make that same mistake on Friday night.
Houston came out swinging in the rematch – scoring 42 points on 61 percent shooting in the first quarter and barely looking back from there, riding another monster effort from James Harden and sending the Cavaliers to their 12th straight defeat with the 141-113 decision.
Unlike some of the competitive contests over the course of the Cavs’ recent skein, this one was never close.