Houston Rockets: Week 15 NBA Power Rankings
By Yoni Pollak
After barely edging out a win against the Pelicans, the Rockets then lost three in a row to the Spurs, Thunder and Wizards. Where do they stand this week among the national media’s NBA power rankings? (Power Rankings done based on action from last Monday through this Sunday’s games.)
This week’s average power ranking: 16
Last week’s average power ranking: 10.67 (click here to view)
ESPN (Marc Stein)
Ranked – N/A | Last Week – 8
No current update
CBS Sports (Matt Moore)
Ranked – 16 | Last Week – 11
"The losses to San Antonio and OKC were totally understandable. That happens. Then there was a moment in the loss to the Wizards where they needed one stop inside of a minute with three seconds on the clock for Washington, and the Rockets gave up a layup. To Jared Dudley. I keep waiting for someone on the Rockets to just snap during one of these sequences and yell “What are we doing?!” and it never happens."
NBA.com (John Schuhmann)
Ranked – 16 | Last Week – 13
"Houston (25-25)Pace: 99.4 (8) OffRtg: 104.3 (7) DefRtg: 106.4 (28) NetRtg: -2.1 (19)James Harden is playing his most efficient basketball of the season, but the Rockets have the league’s worst defense over the last two weeks andthe league’s worst defense against East opponents after Saturday’s 123-122 loss to Washington. Dwight Howard got himself ejected from both of their weekend games and leads the league with 12 technical fouls. They have three important games against the eighth place Blazers this month.This week: vs. MIA, @ PHX, vs. POR"
USA Today
Ranked – 15 | Last Week – 11
"When did Dwight Howard turn into such a hot head?"
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ProBasketballTalk (Kurt Helin)
Ranked – 18 | Last Week – 11
"James Harden deserves to be an All-Star — he is the only Rocket consistently putting up points. And with the way their defense has fallen off it takes a lot of offensive firepower for them to win — they have the worst defense in the NBA in the last 10 games (111.8 points per 100 possessions). You know Darryl Morey will try to be active at the trade deadline, could he bring in a stretch four like Channing Frye?"
Sports Illustrated (Jeremy Woo)
Ranked – 15 | Last Week – 13
"Dwight Howard got tossed in back to back games, and the Rockets dropped three in a row to fall back to .500 for the ninth time this season. If they ever figure themselves out, it’ll now likely have to happen on the road: 12 of their next 16 come away from the Toyota Center."
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