Houston Rockets: 20-1
The Spurs used last season to reveal how motivating a bitter defeat could be; they plowed throughout the league to win their fifth ring, avenging the catastrophic loss to the Heat at 2013.
On a smaller scale, possibly that exact same storyline will play out for the Houston Rockets, who bowed out of the postseason against a Blazers club few expected would offer resistance.
The Rockets will expect to do more this season. Unfortunately, they’ll have less to use than they did. Jeremy Lin and Omer Asik are everywhere, thinning a spinning which didn’t have a lot of depth to shed. And, needless to say, Parsons has shifted his own Texas address.
James Harden and Dwight Howard stay, and they’ll be tested more rigorously than ever before.
If Trevor Ariza averts the post-contract letdown so many anticipate and when Terrence Jones takes yet another step forward, Houston could be more harmful than it was a year ago.
However, when measured against Dallas and Golden State, whose title chances are exactly the like Houston’s–and whose rosters improved after decidedly more impressive playoff runs last season –the Rockets seem like the group least likely to deliver on those 20-1 odds.
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