Green 22+6 Wood 22+11 Wizards trio 20+ Rockets Wizards stop 8 consecutive losses

Live Bar January 6 news Wizards sat at home today to meet the Challenge of the Rockets, the Rockets recently declined in form to retrace the "old road", currently suffering 8 consecutive defeats to sit in the Western Vice President seat, but the last suspended Porter and Wood today came back and started the game. Perhaps it was the suspension that made Wood and Porter hold their breath, the first quarter of the battle between the two combined to win the first nine points of the opening, the Rockets led by them to play a 20-8 offensive attack to establish an early lead, but after this time the Rockets failed to control the game, Bill, Pop, Kuzma three-man half-time contribution of 42 points to support the Wizards offense, and they continued to eat into the point difference and in the second quarter to achieve and enter the second half with a 1-point advantage. In the second half, the Rockets regained the initiative and maintained the lead with an opening 13-5 offensive attack, and the final quarter extended the advantage to double digits, but the tenacious Wizards quickly found their form and erased the score at the end, and in the final decisive moment, The poorly performing Porter on the offensive end hit a fatal three-pointer to stage a deadly three-pointer. In the end, the Rockets ended an eight-game losing streak on the road.

Both sides of the data

Rockets (11-28): Green 22 points and 6 rebounds, Wood 22 points, 11 rebounds and 3 steals, Gordon 19 points and 3 assists, Porter 9 points, 7 rebounds, 8 assists and 4 steals, Tate 13 points and 10 rebounds, Martin 11 points and 4 rebounds, Christopher 8 points and 4 rebounds, Matthews 5 points and 2 rebounds.

Wizards (19-19): Beal 27 points, five rebounds and five assists, Pope 26 points, six rebounds and three steals, Kuzma 24 points, 9 rebounds and 2 assists, Avdia 8 points and 8 rebounds, Garford 5 points and 7 rebounds, Keyspert 7 points and 2 assists, Neto 14 points, 2 rebounds and 4 assists.

The first quarter began with the Rockets, who had a worse record and worse form, and wood and Porter, who returned from the ban, opened the team's top 9 points, plus the leader-eyed Green scored 6 consecutive free throws, and the Rockets could be described as a perfect start to 20-8. The Wizards, who played at home, played rather passively, scoring only two points on a jumper in the opening 3 minutes, who single-handedly carried the team forward with the first 6 points. However, after a bad start to the first half of the quarter, Kuzma and Pop opened fire in time to break the deadlock and chase points. All the Rockets can do is attack, and after the defensive end was broken, they failed to stop the opponent as they did in the first half of the quarter, and Bill and Gordon played three points in the end, the former hitting two yuan in a row to chase the point difference to 3 points to end the first quarter.

The two teams continued to alternate points at the beginning of the second quarter, Avdia and Tate attacked each other to get points, Garford's mid-range shot was a counter-attack dunk against Christopher, this wave of tug-of-war Rockets slightly prevailed, of which Christopher became a Miracle soldier to score 7 points, but in the next 2 minutes only relied on the free throw to get 1 point and gave up the initiative, the Wizards with rookie Kisspert scored 5 points in a row to achieve a rebound. In the final stage, the two teams returned to the right track, with Wood and Gordon both walking to the free throw line to score points, while the Wizards relied on Beal's mid-range shooting and Pope's three-pointer to hold the advantage. At halftime, the Wizards beat the Rockets by one point 55-54.

Returning from the break, the Rockets once again grabbed the opening, Green and Wood doubled to 2+1, plus veteran Gordon hit a three-pointer from the outside, and the Rockets opened with a 13-5 offensive wave to regain the lead. The Wizards' offensive end is relatively single, several waves of goals led by Beal are achieved alone, and Garford's dunks also come from his enthusiasm, while the Rockets continue to play a conduction offense, and Wood is a 3+1 on the outside. Most of the teams' points came from free throws in the final period, the Rockets constantly rushed to the basket to take points to hold the position, the Wizards relied on Bill, Kuzma and Pope to grab the score to chase the score, and at the end of the third quarter, the Rockets countered by 3 points.

The rocket offensive was still the same at the beginning of the final quarter, Gordon as the core of the five consecutive points, the Rockets a wave of 8-0 offensive start to take a double-digit lead. The key moment was the three saviors of Bill, Kuzma and Pop, who scored 12 of the team's first 13 points, of which Pope scored 3+1 to narrow the point difference to 2 points. The Rockets were small but Nwaba and Tate's two key shots were quite hemostatic, and when Neto scored the equalizer, Green quickly hit a three-pointer in response. In the final final moment, the two teams of offense once totaled 6 rounds of each to score 3 goals, and Pop's three-pointer and Neto's goal in the reading second stage once again erased the score, but Porter Jr., who had not performed much on the offensive end before, hit a fatal three-pointer, and the Rockets staged a deadly kill with this goal. In the end, the Rockets ended an eight-game losing streak on the road.

Both sides started

Rockets: Potter Jr., Green, Tate, Gordon, Wood

Wizards: Bill, Pope, Kuzma, Avdia, Garford

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