This was an odd game. It started much like the first game of this season, with the Timberwolves serving notice on the Rockets that they weren’t the same sick puppies anymore, that they had some real bite.
There wasn’t much defense played by the Rockets in the first half, with Minnesota scoring 42 and 38 points in the first two quarters, respectively. It’s a different world in the NBA, where 80 point halves are not only possible, but not that rare. I think when the Spurs played the Nets in the NBA Finals they scored a total of 80 points in one of the games (I kid, or Kidd, but that was a memorably brutal series to watch).