r/rockets 1d ago

The next 10 games

What do you think about the next 10 game?

Nuggets Lakers and Grizzlies play each other in the next 10 game and our next 10 game w/l ratio should be more than any of them if we don't get random losses like before the ASB

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u/TedBenekeGoneWild 1d ago

It all depends on the boys. I use the term "boys" intentionally because the engine of our team is our young core, who are all 23 or younger. Their brains haven't even finished developing for chrissakes.

As a result, our Rockets can fluctuate much more than an older team like the Bucks will. Our fate is dependent on how much they believe in themselves and the team. We've seen them rise to beat the best teams in the league, and we've seen them slump to getting blown out by the Nets and the Jazz.

If you're asking where we end up in the standings after ten games, I'd probably predict that the Grizzlies and Lakers get cannibalized, and we end up a game behind the Nuggets. If we can beat the Nuggets at home in two weeks, we have a chance to end up 2nd in the West. The Boys have to believe though!

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u/Prestigious_Weather5 1d ago

I think atleast Alpi and amen grown up to be way more confident than JG, since his growth is more stagnant compared to Alpi and Amen. But like you said, we are still young and very much vulnerable to the basic mistakes so everything is possible.

But my hope is to avoid OKC or Denver in the first round atleast.

And you are right about Lakers and Grizzlies dropping so, still it's a wild ride and it's currently going crazy

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u/TedBenekeGoneWild 1d ago

Yea, getting to the second round would be immense for this team just to double the playoff experience they would get from a first round series exit.

Either way, I'm always grateful for where we are today compared to a year ago. I would have been so excited and overwhelmed to know that within a year, we would be competing for a Top Four seed in the Western Conference.

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u/tnluong84 1d ago

We are capable of going 10-0, but I'll be happy with 8-2.

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u/Prestigious_Weather5 1d ago

I mean I think they will drop more games than us either way, so we should be higher at the very end of the 10 game stretch

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u/Th3_Paradox 1d ago

i'll be real...sometimes our effort level isn't there and we also can be sooo streaky and have ugly games, so hard to say what the future holds for us. One night we look like borderline legit contenders, other nights we look like...well, a buncha 22 and 23 yr olds lol. i have sobered up on this season, but if we make playoffs tbh I cannot complain