Beijing time on February 7, today, the Houston Rockets at home to meet the New Orleans Pelicans, this is a contest between the first to last in the West and the eleventh in the West, from the ranking point of view, the Pelicans obviously have a great advantage. Sure enough, in the first quarter, the Pelicans were mainly counter-guests, and under Ingram's leadership, the Pelicans led the Rockets by 5 points. However, the Rockets did not intend to tie their hands, and in the second quarter, Wood and Matthews scored successively, and the Rockets achieved a rebound, with a score of 54-49.
In the third quarter, Hayes and Ingram led the team to a counterattack, and the Pelicans established a double-digit advantage, with a score of 87-77. In the final quarter, the two sides came and went, Martin's three-point knife fell, Shen Jing broke through the backhand dunk, but Hart did not want to show weakness, quickly cut into the two-handed dunk response, but the Rockets played momentum, Tate bottom corner three points again, the point difference narrowed to single digits. At this point, Varan stepped forward, and after facing Wood a false swing to make a 2+1, he caused the opponent to foul and go to the free throw line to score points
With more than three minutes left in the game, Ingram assisted Varan to score 2 points, Porter scored 3 points in a three-point walk through Yang, the Pelicans, Ingram scored 4 more points in a row, and Jaylen Green also scored 4 consecutive points to return the favor, but back, Varan scored 2 points under the basket, and Wood then caused Varan to leave the field with six fouls. In the decisive moment, Tate hit another three-pointer, but Ingram was in control, he assisted Graham's three-pointer, and Jaylen Green staged a flying dunk to score 2 points, but the game time quickly ran out, and in the end, the Pelicans won 120-107 against the Rockets.
After this game, the Pelicans won three consecutive games with a record of 21 wins and 32 losses, rising to tenth in the West, and the Rockets suffered two consecutive losses with a record of 15 wins and 38 losses, continuing to rank first in the West. In this game, Ingram is in hot form, he played 36 minutes, 12 of 21, 5 of three points, 3 of 33 points, 3 rebounds, 12 assists, 3 steals and 1 block of the comprehensive data, plus or minus +15 second in the whole game, the fly in the ointment is that he had the highest 4 mistakes in the game, but flaws are not hidden, Ingram's performance today is close to perfect, let people see the familiar Ingram again.
Ingram has been in great shape lately, with 23 points, 4 rebounds, 12 assists and 26 points, 3 rebounds and 4 assists in the past two games, and today is a double-double stat, and if Zion can return in time, the Pelicans still have a chance to enter the playoffs. In addition, Hayes had 21 points and 7 rebounds, Hart 13 points, 7 rebounds and 4 assists, Jones 9 points and 3 assists, Valanciunas 18 points, 5 rebounds and 3 assists, Alvarado 9 points, 2 rebounds and 4 assists, and Walker had 9 points and 2 rebounds.
On the Rockets side, Wood had 21 points, 8 rebounds and 3 assists, Green 18 points, 3 rebounds and 4 assists, Christopher 12 points and 2 assists, Matthews 18 points and 4 assists, Tate 15 points, 3 rebounds and 2 blocks, Porter had 8 points, 4 rebounds and 8 assists, and Martin had 9 points and 3 rebounds.