The Houston Rockets, winners of their last seven games, currently own the league's longest active winning streak. This would have made sense with the James Harden-led Hosutons teams of yesteryear but the team is now rebuilding from the ground up. They had a 1-16 record before their historic hot streak.
Christian Wood, the Rockets' leading scorer, admitted to ESPN's Tim MacMahon that he was surprised by the Rockets' streak and that the team's chemistry has allowed them to shock the basketball world.
“A little surprising, but we've always believed,” Wood told ESPN on Friday. “We've always stayed together and always had that team chemistry. We know that we're better than a 1-16 record and better than what we were showing. We never put our heads down. We just stayed together.
“I believe it's real. Especially with Jalen Green being out, which is a key piece, points that [would be] on the board that are not. We're still managing to win games. And with Kevin Porter Jr. out. I think we're even better than we're showing. We're just clicking.”
Jalen Green has missed all but the first half of the first game of Houston's streak while Kevin Porter Jr. has missed Houston's last two victories, the last of which was a spoiler victory over the Brooklyn Nets in Harden's return to Houston.
Adding Green and Porter Jr. back into the mix should only help Houston win more, even with Green's struggles. The second overall pick in last year's draft has been scoring at an inefficient rate but he has the potential to lead Houston's offense to new heights once he finds his footing.
The Rockets will try for their eighth straight win Friday against the Milwaukee Bucks.
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