It’s amazing what a couple wins can do to the national perception.
In an 82-game season, there’s plenty of ups and downs, even for the good teams, so it always strikes me as knee-jerk when you hear the talking heads making demonstrative declarations using just a few games, a nationally televised contest, or a few clips from a game or games out of literally hundreds of clippable moments as evidence.
But that’s the hot take culture we have these days, and the constant need to feed the content beast in the 24/7/365 news cycle we live in creates a situation like the one we’re seeing now with the Houston Rockets.