They chased the vaunted Golden State Warriors, a team that features not one but two MVP winners on its roster to seven games in the Western Conference Finals, and only lost that last Game 7 because of an injury to Chris Paul and remarkably missing 27 threes in a row at one point. They were a whisker away from a trip to the NBA Finals, and given how that series went for Golden State, imagining the Rockets as likely champions isn’t difficult.
And yet, there are those on the Rockets that say that they feel this year’s team is better.