To beat the Warriors, Rockets need to get their house in order

HOUSTON — This is what we have all be waiting for. It was exciting. It was entertaining. It was true playoff basketball. And, in the end, it was another Golden State Warrior clinic. The defending NBA champion came into the Rockets' house Monday night — a playoff-ready and unusually loud house — and barely blinked. The Rockets not only blinked, they flinched. And stumbled. And fumbled. And bumbled. It was the Warriors who looked like the best team in the NBA. Perhaps the Rockets took away the lesson that what they have done in the playoffs thus far isn't going to be good enough.