Houston is looking good against Miami in preseason and it looks like it’s the starters playing. I’m beating the drum for the Rockets. I think they are going to be much better than generally expected.

The Rockets also got humiliated by the Spurs several days ago. They will definately be a more deciplined team this season but I think it’s still a long way to go.

By the way, is anyone interested in a win prediction thread?

As Early Bird alluded to, we still have toooooooons of time before the actual season starts. We’ll definitely have a wins prediction thread before then.

I really don’t remember a preseason having less juice than this one.

It’s just the nature of this particular team. Unless they seriously just fall apart (which seems unlikely), this will be basically last year’s team, so it’s really just about waiting to see if they can play better in the playoffs. So there’s no real storyline about the team. Last offseason, they just added Brunson and iHart and a Donovon Mitchell trade seemed very possible (and then when it didn’t happen, we got to debate the lack of a trade), plus RJ got his extension. Just so many more stories last offseason. This one is just dull as fuck, and they didn’t even play interesting preseason games, so we didn’t even have that to enjoy. Plus the scheduling is terrible. Simply an awful preseason in terms of getting people interested in talking about stuff.

Every day you get one more yard
You take it on faith, you take it to the heart

🤘🤘

…any minute now…

…yup, the regular season is basically here…

…god this is a stupid schedule…