Forget whistling while you work -- Palo Alto High grad Jeremy Lin was literally laughing out loud while he helped the Houston Rockets put the finishing touches on their most impressive win of the season so far, a 121-96 romp over the Memphis Grizzlies on Saturday night in NBA action.

Having picked apart the Grizzlies all night long, Lin could be seen positively beaming toward the end of the evening's surgical dissection. The same could certainly be said of his teammates as well, each of whom was only too happy to join in the holiday fun as the Rockets raced past Memphis before a raucous sellout crowd at Toyota Center.

Lin finished with 15 points (5-of-12 field goals, 4-4 free throws), season-high-tying 11 assists and six rebounds , which was his fourth double-double of the season.

It was the sort of show, by the Rockets plus Lin and James Harden, that fans and coaches dream of -- a thorough, start-to-finish, tour de force performance against an elite team that serves notice to the league at large of the damage this club can inflict when the chemistry clicks and the pieces seamlessly slide into place.

"I think tonight we showed how explosive we can be offensively because we put 120 points on a team that hasn't allowed over 100 points since the first game of the season," said Lin. "This is just a testament of people moving and passing the ball and we were also fortunate that we caught them on the back end of the back-to-back. They (Grizzlies) played last night as well so they were a little tired."

Better yet, it was the third such performance the Rockets have produced this week during a dominating six-day stretch that has seen them go 3-0 --with two of those games coming against teams ranking near the top of their respective conferences -- while racking up an average margin of victory of 20 points in that span.

— Rockets.com/Palo Alto Online Sports

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