The Houston Rockets have been in the midst of a stretch of games against some very good teams. They’ve responded well, even without Chris Paul and partially without Eric Gordon, winning six of seven games since December 22 against the Spurs.
There are many factors to the success recently, but the main reason behind the streak has been the MVP-quality play from James Harden. He’s brought his game to a whole other level and has been incredible, leading to the Player of the Month award for December. In our definitely non-biased opinion (right?