The Rockets had a hard time taking advantage of the Pistons and Magic to win, through a wave of consecutive defeats to sit in the league's penultimate position, opening up the gap with the penultimate and penultimate, but after playing back-to-back games against the Blazers, the Rockets improved the record to the same as the Pistons Magic, 20 wins and 55 losses, although the three teams have the same record, but this season the Rockets have a record advantage over the Pistons and Magic, so the Rockets directly rose from the penultimate to the third to the bottom.
To know that the Rockets this season is to sign the champion, although the bottom three teams are the same probability of winning the lottery is the same 14%, but the bottom of the player can win the fifth place, the penultimate second and third is not, so as long as it is a rotten team, as far as possible hope to end the journey with the league's penultimate record. The Rockets have 7 games left this season, the opponents are Spurs, Kings, Kings, Timberwolves, Nets, Eagles, Raptors, overall the schedule is still relatively easy, while the Pistons and Magic schedule is relatively difficult, so in order to ensure the league's penultimate position, the Rockets can not win the rest of the game, and even pray that the Pistons and Magic can win more games.
Because in addition to the Pistons and Magic, the Rockets' biggest competitor in the West, the Thunder, are already unscrupulous for losing, so far the Thunder's record is 21 wins and 53 losses, only 1.5 wins ahead of the Rockets, you know that before the Thunder was enough to lead the Rockets at least 4 wins, but in the past 12 games, the Thunder only achieved 1 win and 11 losses, the record ranking is all the way down, and the remaining 8 games of the Thunder opponents are the Blazers, Eagles, Pistons, Suns, Blazers, Jazz, Lakers, Clippers, from the opponent's performance, the Thunder's schedule is even simpler than the Rockets, but recently the Thunder directly announced a message, the team's core guard Geddy because of the hip injury to determine the season reimbursement. It is worth mentioning that it is precisely because of Gidey's injury that the Thunder were able to play such a "spectacular" result in March, and now the face is not needed, and it is directly reimbursed for a season.
Therefore, the Rockets' competitors are not just pistons and Magic, and the next 3 games are against the Spurs and kings, respectively, because the current Spurs record of 30 wins and 44 losses is not much from the playoffs, so it can be concluded that the Spurs will fight hard. But the Kings are different, the trade day in exchange for Sabonis was originally going to attack the playoffs, but the team just can't win, so now it is also directly lying flat, ready to let Sabonis and Fox miss the rest of the game, and now the team level has a fight with the Blazers, and it will depend on whose acting skills are better. As for the remaining 4 games, naturally it is impossible to win, and it is estimated that it will not be won.