The Next Generation showed this team is still potent, when coached correctly.
This feels like vindication.
It was a victory for the stubborn Rockets fans among us — myself included — who have held out hope that J.B. Bickerstaff would finally turn the keys in the Rockets' hidden engine. Putting Clint Capela and K.J. McDaniels in for extended stretches over Dwight Howard and Corey Brewer.
And Bickerstaff finally did it against the Thunder, watching Capela help a Howard-less Rockets team come back from a 12-point deficit, then watching them fall behind again when Dwight returned.