MEMPHIS – Sam Dekker tried to make his way to the Rockets locker room, but teammates would not let him.
They circled him and smacked him in the head, needing only a shaving cream pie to do the full walkoff home run treatment to complete a career night in a first start he will never forget.
The Rockets will want to keep their 119-95 surge past the Memphis Grizzlies in mind for a while.
They rolled through the fourth quarter, completing their most impressive, most satisfying rout of the season. But as well as they scored, taking a 26-point lead to dominate a team that had beaten them twice, under the circumstances they might have won the most appropriate way.