In what might have been a basketball game scripted by the writers of Stranger Things, the Houston Rockets (28-20) outlasted the Toronto Raptors (36-15) in a game that maximized the limits of ebb and flow.
I guess we should start with the beginning: the Rockets we have grown accustomed to over the past few weeks, you know the ones that live and die on James Harden scoring 80 percent of the points (all numbers approximate), weren’t the ones that played most of the first half. No, instead we were greeted to the Bizarro Rockets, a team that could suddenly rebound, defend and swing the ball around in superb fashion.