Kings and Rockets Collide on Sunday
The Sacramento Kings play host to the Houston Rockets in Orlando on Sunday.

The Rockets (43-25) have been one of the most impressive teams in the Orlando restart, winning three of their four games. That .750 win percentage is nice on its own but it's really amazing when you consider the competition. Those three victories came against the Los Angeles Lakers, Milwaukee Bucks and Dallas Mavericks. Those are three of the best teams in the NBA and it's proving that size doesn't matter. This is a team playing with nobody above 6'7", while regularly getting doubled up in rebounds. What they're doing is running around on defense like a bunch of mad men and firing up three's at will on the other end. Everybody talks about what a disadvantage Houston is at because of their size but is anyone considering how hard it is for the opponent to match up with all of these quick and athletic Rockets?

The Kings (29-40) just suffered a terrible loss on Friday, getting blown out by the Brooklyn Nets. The nature of that loss looks even worse when you consider the fact that Brooklyn is playing without Kevin Durant, Kyrie Irving, Spencer Dinwiddie and Taurean Prince. That obviously made that a must-win game but they continue to fall further down the standings. In fact, Sacramento now sits 13th in the west, the lowest seed of any of the Orlando teams. The good news is that they're only 3.5 games behind the eight-seed, keeping them alive for the time being. This happens to be a club that no one wants to face in the postseason either, throwing out young studs like Bogdan Bogdanovic and De'Aaron Fox.

These teams have split their two meetings this season, with the road team prevailing in both outings.
Posted on: 8/8/2020 1:05 AM
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