Maybe if he’d shot his season average of 43% the Rockets wouldn’t have been in this position. But they were, and Durant cashed the shot for the win. This game wasn’t pretty. It showed those watching a number of things,

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The Rockets have dropped four of their last five contests and have lost to each of the bottom-four teams in the Western Conference this month. It gets worse. Houston was supposed to be a team that gets after it on