On February 18, Beijing time, the Clippers played at home against the Rockets, and the Clippers successfully defeated the Rockets 142-111 at the end of the game. Although the Clippers have suffered injuries this season, they have played very tough this season, especially against some strong teams, the Clippers can have unexpected performances, and now against a fish-belly team like the Rockets, the Clippers undoubtedly have a greater chance of winning. And this game is also not too much suspense, the Clippers established a big lead early, and the Rockets were even more powerless in the following game, and finally the Rockets suffered a 31-point defeat.
Shortly after the start of the first quarter, the Clippers found offensive status, and as the game progressed, the Clippers slowly pulled away the score, although Tate helped the team score points to stop the bleeding, but relying on Reggie and Mann to play the Clippers was to continue to extend the lead, and the Clippers led by 9 points at the end of the first quarter. The second quarter of the game relying on Green, Mark Rockets can also bite the score, but after the Rockets offense downturn, this time Kennard's outbreak directly helped the team to open the score, and then Wood and others helped the team score, and then Kennard was unstoppable to help the team score, and the Clippers led by 12 points at the end of the half game. In the third quarter, Wood and Green helped the team chase the score, but soon the Clippers played a wave of 11-0 to open the score, and in the following game, the Rockets failed to catch up with the score, but let the Clippers play an offensive climax to continue to extend the lead, and the Clippers led by 28 points at the end of the third quarter. The fourth quarter quickly went into garbage time, and the Clippers won a big win.
This game the Clippers really played a good offensive state, and in the end the Clippers had 3 people scoring 20+, of which Kennard was more full of firepower, the outside three-point state was unstoppable, and Kennard got 25 points and 3 assists at the end of the game, including 8 of 9 three-pointers. And when Kennard played such an offensive state, it already made the Rockets uncomfortable, not to mention that Morris and Mann also had excellent performances in the game, so the Rockets could only watch the Clippers continue to expand the lead, and Morris got 27 points, 5 rebounds and 3 assists at the end of the game, and Mann got 20 points, 8 rebounds and 1 assist.
As for Reggie's average performance in this game, after all, there are other players' outbreaks, Reggie's performance here does not matter, in the end Reggie got 12 points, 3 rebounds and 14 assists, Batum got 3 points, 4 rebounds and 3 assists, and Zubac got 13 points, 10 rebounds and 1 assist. The Rockets really played badly in this game, did not put pressure on the opponent on the defensive end, and Schroeder's performance in the game was also sluggish, and At the end of the game, Schroeder had 9 points, 3 rebounds and 9 assists on 3 of 11.
Although Tough Tate played an efficient and explosive performance in the game, it was a pity that this was a limited help for the Rockets, and Tate had 19 points, 3 rebounds and 4 assists on 7-of-10 shooting at the end of the game. At the same time, in the rocket's fiasco, Green's performance in the game became a fig leaf for the team, in this game Green's offensive state is not bad, and Green got 21 points and 2 assists at the end of the game. As for the other Rockets players, Matthews had 8 points, 4 rebounds and 3 assists, Wood had 13 points, 7 rebounds and 1 assist, and Martin had 12 points, 2 rebounds and 1 assist.