Both the Rockets and Cavaliers lugged long losing streaks into the final week of February. Since then, one team has turned it around. The other has not.
Before dropping Houston last Wednesday night, the Wine & Gold snapped their 10-game skein the night before against Atlanta – then proceeded to make it three straight on Saturday, jumping on the Sixers before halftime, holding them off in the fourth quarter and simply outplaying them in overtime to notch their third three-game run of the season.
The Rockets have somehow fallen farther then they were when Cleveland beat them in a one-sided affair last week – suffering a blowout of epic proportions, with Memphis blowing them out by 49 points to extend the losing streak to 11 games.