The Houston Rockets have now played 10 games in the 2025-26 NBA season, and we’re starting to get a clearer picture of what to expect from this team over the next seven-ish months.

The season got off to a less-than-optimal start, as the team dropped a 125–124 double-overtime thriller against the defending champion Oklahoma City Thunder. Then in Game No. 2, they went cold late and lost to the Detroit Pistons, 115–111. That left them 0–2 with a point differential of only -5.

Fast-forward three weeks, and the Rockets now sit at 7–3, good for the No. 4 seed in a Western Conference that looks as loaded as ever.

Here are some of my takeaways:

Threes are falling for almost everyone!

If you had to point to the most surprising contribution to Houston’s early-season success, it would have

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