THREE-POINTERS: Takeaways on the Rockets 128-110 win over the Nuggets
1. Valuable as the win to close the road trip and validate the victory against the Warriors was, it might also serve a greater purpose. There are times in every season in which teams have to fight human nature, to avoid traps built in whether they be mental or physical threats to success. This one was obvious, a game that screamed "schedule loss." Many of the traps are obvious, but teams fall into them anyway. The Rockets played with clear determination to avoid the tendency to rest on the success of their double overtime win and give in to the fatigue at the end of a five-game road trip with a 5 a.