The Spurs used last season to show us how motivating a sour defeat may be; they plowed throughout the group to win their fifth ring, avenging the devastating loss to the Heat at 2013.
On a smaller scale, possibly that same narrative will perform for the Houston Rockets, who bowed out of the postseason from a Blazers club couple expected would offer immunity.
The Rockets will hope to do more this year. Unfortunately, they’ll have less to work with than they did. Omer Asik and jeremy Lin are everywhere, thinning a spinning which didn’t have much thickness to shed. And, of course, his Texas address has been shifted by Parsons.
Dwight Howard and james Harden remain, and they will be tested more rigorously than ever before.
If Trevor Ariza averts the post-contract letdown so many anticipate and if Terrence Jones takes another step ahead, Houston could be more dangerous than it had been a year ago.
But when measured against Dallas and Golden State, whose name chances are exactly the like Houston’s–and whose rosters improved after more impressive playoff runs last season –the Rockets look like the group likely to deliver those 20-1 odds.

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