At 9:00 a.m. Beijing time on January 11, 2022, the NBA regular season continued, the Rockets vs Philadelphia 76ers, the result, the Rockets lost 27-36, 23-26, 22-29, 19-20, the total score of 91-111. The Rockets' Christian Wood became the Rockets' most scoring player, while Philadelphia's 76ers' Joel Enderby scored the highest points of the game, with a total of 31 points and six rebounds.
Currently, the Rockets are 15th in the West, and the former King of the East has shown decadence this season. The City 76ers are currently ranked No. 5 in the East, and they have won six straight games before this game, and they will hit the regular season seven-game winning streak in this round.
Let's take a look at the starting lineups of the two teams, the 76ers start: Sable, Harris, Embiid, Green, Cockmaz, and the Rockets starters: Tate, Wood, Theis, Porter, Green.
In the first quarter, 76ers center Embiid and Rockets forward Wood jumped the ball, and the 76ers took the lead in getting the ball. The Rockets made a lot of mistakes in the opening stage, and Wood only hit 1 of his 3 shots. The 76ers developed at multiple points, with Andre Drummond playing well and Aisizul also playing a strong running interspersed role on the outside. At the end of the first quarter, the Rockets trailed the 76ers by nine points, 27-36;
In the second quarter, the Rockets strengthened their defense and running on the outside, the 76ers played quite hard in the first five points of the opening game, the Rockets once brought the score closer to 7 points under the premise of Wood's presence, but at the critical moment, the 76ers' Kevin Porter stabilized the situation, and with his one-point dunk success, it completely stimulated the 76ers' offensive enthusiasm. At the end of the second quarter, the Rockets trailed 23-26, trailing 12 on aggregate.
In the third quarter, although the Rockets still wanted to fight back in the opening stages, the 76ers blossomed across the board, Joel Embiid also shined, and the Rockets were likely to lose, and by the end of the third quarter, the Rockets were 22-29, 19 points behind on aggregate.
In the fourth quarter, the Rockets did not seem to give up, chasing the score to 19-20, but they had no choice but to owe too much before, and finally lost to the 76ers with a total score of 91-111.
The match also set 3 new records. First, the Rockets have lost all five games against the 76ers since losing to the 76ers on August 15, 2020; second, the Rockets have suffered 1 win and 5 losses since the new year, which is their worst record in 10 days in the new year in the past seven years; and third, the 76ers have maintained a 7-game winning streak in the regular season since losing to the Atlanta Hawks on Christmas Eve.