Earlier in the season, the Rockets played games with only seven or eight available players. The injuries seemed to be piling up and the coaching staff had to carefully manage the workload of the available players to make sure that they too didn’t suffer any injuries.
Those days are in the rear-view mirror.
Against Minnesota, Trevor Ariza will make his return after being out for about three weeks due to a hamstring injury. With the additions of Joe Johnson and Brandan Wright from the buyout market, the Rockets will face a new kind of problem.