The Houston Rockets need to play defense.
Red94 has written about it. Everyone who covers the Rockets has written about it. The underlying narrative for this season has been the collapse of the Houston Rockets’ defense, epitomized by James Harden.It was not like that tonight. The Rockets and Harden played defense. But on the second game of a back to back, J.B. Bickerstaff decided to borrow from the Mike Brown offensive playbook and just dump the ball to James Harden over and over again down the stretch. The same James Harden who has a bum ankle and played 40 minutes last night.