I would agree. Injuries have begun to pile up and the streak wouldn't have lasted anyway. First place in the West? I'll take that any day of the week.
I haven't seen too many games lately, but in the ones I did watch, the Rockets would always pour it on in the second half, especially in the 3rd quarter. Harden gets plenty of flack for his effort on defense, but the past couple of seasons he's at least tried. I've heard that scoring PGs hate defending because it takes something out of them when they go back on offense.
I doubt they (or anyone else in the West) will get past the Warriors, but I believe the Rockets can give GSW a run for their money. I wasn't born when the Rockets went back to back, but I was old enough to remember when they first brought Yao over. If only T-Mac and Yao stayed healthy.