It's hard to be humble when you have won not one, but two consecutive games.

But in an often-frustrating, frequently maddening and usually disappointing Rockets season, consecutive wins have been as cherished as a miracle cure, so rare they inspired the Rockets to do the unthinkable: They found a new way to lose Tuesday night.

The Rockets blew off all that hustling, rebounding, defending, dirty-work stuff that had forged their brief turnaround. They let the road-weary and short-handed Los Angeles Clippers beat them 94-84 just the way they had won lately, and before just 10,293 at Compaq Center, the Rockets' smallest home crowd since Dec. 11.

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