Podcast: “Predictable” Rockets crush Mavericks, advance to West Semifinals

“There’s no more predictable team than the Rockets,” said Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban. “You know exactly what they’re gonna do.”

Predicting it is one thing. Stopping it is entirely another.

But after dropping 28 points in Game 5 and leading the Rockets to a 4-1 series win — the franchise’s first since 2009 — James Harden made it clear that making quick work of Cuban’s Mavericks wasn’t the end game for the Rockets.

MK Bower joins me on the podcast from the Toyota Center as we recap Game 5 and the series. We discuss how Harden is changing the script, Josh Smith’s huge impact, Dwight Howard putting the knee injury to bed, the possible end to Dirk’s Mavericks and the upcoming Western Conference Semifinals against the Spurs or Clippers.