How Have Rockets Kept Top-Flight Defense Without Dwight? — bleacherreport.com

The Houston Rockets should be vulnerable at the defensive end. Center Dwight Howard's absence should have made them that way. But they aren't, and it hasn't. Despite playing the last 13 games without the three-time Defensive Player of the Year, the Rockets remain as stingy as ever on that side of the floor. Houston warned the rest of the NBA this would happen. When word leaked that Howard would miss significant time with edema in his right knee—perhaps six to eight weeks, according to what he told Jenny Dial Creech of the Houston Chronicle—the Rockets promised they would proceed without missing a beat.

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