"The Rockets' 96-89 victory over the Phoenix Suns on Thursday came unlike any other this season.

For the first time this season, the Rockets came back from a fourth-quarter deficit, down 76-74 entering the period. They had been 0-9 when trailing after three quarters.

"There's a lot of ebbs and flows on the road," Rockets coach Kevin McHale said. "I told those guys, 'When you're playing teams on the road, they are not just going to roll over and play dead; they're going to come back and fight.'

"They made runs, we made runs. That's the whole ebb and flow of the NBA. Veteran teams understand that, and we're trying to get our guys to understand that a team making a run on you, the world doesn't end and doesn't crash in on you. You just keep playing a lot of time. We were just able to battle through it.""