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DENVER -- The Houston Rockets sure didnt look -- or play -- like a tired team.James Harden scored 20 points and the Rockets led from start to finish in beating the Denver Nuggets 128-110 on Friday night.Eric Gordon and Ryan Anderson had 18 points each and Sam Dekker added 17 for Houston, which completed an impressive back-to-back road sweep that began with a 132-127 win over Golden State in double overtime Thursday.The latest victory came despite the Rockets 5 a.m. Friday arrival in Denver. Most of the players and coaches got little sleep before playing the Nuggets.Its a good win for us, Harden said. Last night, double-overtime game, getting in at 5 a.m. and not really sleeping. ... We got off to a really good start, guys knocked down shots and just rode that wave the entire game.Rockets coach Mike DAntoni said the win was especially gratifying because of the circumstances and the way his team played.A lot of positives, he said. They found the energy to go ahead and finish up the game. It wasnt always pretty. Its a special group that can conjure that kind of energy in altitude after getting in at 5 oclock in the morning.Wilson Chandler had 24 points to lead the Nuggets, who had won three straight against the Rockets. The Nuggets have lost four of five overall and fell to 3-7 this season at home, the high-altitude venue where they once routinely dominated.Moreover, coach Michael Malone lit into his squad after the game over its lackluster performance.Its one thing to lose games but when youre outworked on your home floor -- Miami did it, Houston did it -- I have no explanation, Malone said. All I know is that it is unacceptable and thats why I do apologize to our fans because they deserve better.Were a bad team right now and I have to start doing a much better job because the direction were headed right now is in a bad, bad place.Up by 10 points at halftime, the Rockets took a 99-84 lead into the fourth quarter and kept the pressure on the rest of the way as part of a sharpshooting display that included converting 17 of 37 3-point attempts against a listless Nuggets defense. Denver went 9 of 30 from beyond the arc.The Rockets took a 73-63 halftime lead over the Nuggets, who allowed a season high in points by an opponent over the first two quarters.Houston led by as many as 15 in the first half, hitting nine 3-pointers, including four by Anderson, to gain early separation with its highest-scoring output over the first two quarters this season.The lack of defensive urgency by Denver was epitomized by Gordons fast-break layup at the halftime buzzer as he drove the length of the court virtually uncontested in the final 3 seconds of the period.TIP-INSRockets: F Trevor Ariza left the game in the final minutes with back spasms, DAntoni said, apparently after coming down awkwardly while going for a rebound. ... Houston has made at least 10 3-pointers in 19 consecutive games, the longest streak of its kind in NBA history. ... Houstons previous high for first-half points was 71 against the Los Angeles Lakers on Oct. 26. ... The Rockets are 7-2 on the road since beginning the season 2-3.Nuggets: C Nikola Jokic missed the game because of a sore left wrist. ... G Gary Harris remains sidelined with a right foot injury. ... G Will Barton returned from an ankle injury that sidelined him for the previous two games.QUOTABLEThey played harder than us. They wanted the game more than us. It was a bad loss on our home court. They came back very, very late (to Denver). We should have jumped on them since the beginning and it was the opposite. -- Nuggets forward Danilo Gallinari.UP NEXTRockets: Completed a five-game trip and return home to host the Boston Celtics on Monday night.Nuggets: Play at Utah on Saturday night in the first stop of a six-game trip.Cheap Baseball Jerseys China .ca looks back at the stories and moments that made the year memorable. Wholesale Nike Baseball Jerseys . 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It worked.If youre still playing in your league, congratulations, because youve survived the bad beats, disappointing performances and general misfortune that doom fantasy owners year after year.Its always fun to see the list of most common players on the rosters of teams that reached the finals -- at least for those who got there -- because its often a sprinkling of players who helped you get to the playoffs and a larger dose of those who performed well in Weeks 14 and 15, the two-week semifinals in ESPNs standard play.Only 10 players are on the rosters of finalists in at least 30 percent of ESPN leagues, so without further ado, lets get to the list. Remember, this is only for ESPN standard 10-team leagues:You may be surprised to see that Tom Brady (7 points in Week 15), Aaron Rodgers (11 points in Week 15) and Drew Brees (4 points in Week 14) -- star quarterbacks who each put up one well-below-average game in the past two weeks -- still cracked the top 25. However, its not such an eye-opener when you consider that Matt Ryan is the only quarterback to score at least 35 points the past two weeks combined. Thats because most quarterbacks had at least one bad week, and many had two rough performances.Only six quarterbacks scored more than 30 points during Weeks 14 and 15: Ryan (40), Andrew Luck (34), Brady (33), Brees (33), Rodgers (32) and Cam Newton (31). As one final nail in the coffin, if you will, to illustrate quarterbackk struggles during the fantasy semis, Matt Moores 23 points in Week 15 alone were more than three top-10 fantasy quarterbacks for the season -- Marcus Mariota, Derek Carr and Ben Roethlisberger -- compiled in the past two weeks individually.ddddddddddddIf youre curious, here are some of the most notable widely owned fantasy stars whose poor two-week stretches have them way down the list: Antonio Brown (17.9 percent), Dez Bryant (15.5), Mark Ingram (15.1) and Russell Wilson (14.7)Julio Jones finds himself on the roster of 16.1 percent of finalists despite missing the past two games due to injury. What a boost he could provide, if hes able to return and play well in Weeks 16 and 17. Meanwhile, Ty Montgomery was owned in just 58 percent of leagues through Week 15 but still is on the roster of 13.1 percent of fantasy finalists. Could he wind up as this years Tim Hightower, or is his ownership simply too low to make that kind of a jump, even if he continues his strong play in the final two weeks?Once Week 17 is complete and your league has crowned its champion, well revisit this topic to see who were the most common players to lead their teams to fantasy glory in ESPN leagues. Until then, heres hoping you make the best decisions in your fantasy finals, if youre fortunate enough to be in them. ' ' '