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Taking their feet off the pedal?

Harden was one seven players in double-figures for the Rockets, who extended their home winning streak over the Grizzlies to 13 straight games.

“We just tried to bring the energy out from the first quarter on,” said Harden.

Marcus Morris scored 16 points on 6-of-8 shooting -- including 3-of-4 from beyond the arc -- and Omer Asik tallied a double-double with 14 points and 12 rebounds to give Houston its fourth consecutive home victory.

Houston also got a great game out of Jeremy Lin, who totaled 15 points, 11 assists and six boards.

Memphis came into the contest winners of four in a row, but the league’s top defense could not stymie the hot-shooting Rockets, who converted 53.7 percent of their field goals for the game.

“Up until the end of the third quarter I thought we still had a chance,” said Memphis forward Rudy Gay. “But they didn’t take their foot off the pedal.”

- Rockets tame Grizzlies, Sports Network, December 23, 2017.

3. The victory was as comfortable as the 4-0 shoreline suggests. It could easily have been five or six. Again. Worst of all, there can be few people who didn't see it coming. Even the Spurs players appeared as if they were staring at the certainty of defeat when they walked out onto the pitch before the kickoff; their body language suggested that each and every one of them would have rather been somewhere other than Anfield.