The Houston Rockets enter the All-Star break with a sub-.500 record following their 116-103 loss to the Portland Trail Blazers.

"We're broken," Bickerstaff said. "It's that simple. We're a broken team, and we all need to use this break to figure out how we're going to impact change. If we don't want to impact change, then we need to be made aware of that, too, and we'll go in a different direction.

"We can't continue to go out and play this way. It's easy to see it's a fragmented bunch. You can't win that way."

The Rockets won 56 games last season and reached the Western Conference Finals.

After a 4-7 start this season, the Rockets fired Kevin McHale.

The Rockets are 23-21 under Bickerstaff.

"If you look at it, the chemistry is not quite where you would like it, and hopefully the break can be what we need to get away from each other," Jason Terry said. "It's like a marriage. You might need time away to get back right. I've seen worse."

James Harden said Bickerstaff told the team it was broken after Wednesday's loss.