Today the Rockets are at home to face the Thunder, both teams are playing back-to-back, and the Rockets' side Shenjing and Gordon also ushered in a comeback.
At the beginning of the first quarter, a wave of 14-4 forced the Thunder to call a timeout, and after the timeout, the Thunder responded with a wave of 9-0 to catch up with the score. After that, the two sides played inextricably, and the Rockets led by one point at the end of the first quarter.
In the second quarter, the Rockets opened up their three-point sense, and the outside arrows rained down 42 points in a single quarter, while the Thunder offense still did not improve, this quarter was a net minus of 20 points, and the Rockets had established a 22-point lead at halftime.
In the second half, the Rockets led by more than 25 points in the third quarter, and the Thunder team relied on Alexander alone to support them, and the game was completely reduced to garbage time at the end of the third quarter.
But after leading too much in the fourth quarter, the Rockets played casually again, and the Thunder seized the opportunity to narrow the point gap, Sellars couldn't stand it and shouted a timeout, and after the timeout came back, the Thunder did not reverse successfully.
In the end, the Rockets defeated the Thunder 118-105 at home, winning two straight for the first time in the season! Let's take a look at the specific performance of the players!
First consecutive win of the season! Rocket four less vigorous 80 + 37 + 22 burst the thunder
This game is the Rockets' fifth win of the season and their first winning streak of the season. After yesterday's big comeback against the Hawks, the confidence of the entire Rockets team today is very good, and Jaylen Green, Porter Jr., Jabari Smith and Shenjing all played well. In this game, the four of them combined 80 points, 37 rebounds and 22 assists to burst the Thunder.
Shen Jing played a dominant performance in the first game after his comeback, with offensive footsteps under the basket, fast attack passes to assist teammates, and rebounding protection was also quite good, playing 35 minutes, shooting 10 of 17, bursting 21 points, 19 rebounds (including 6 frontcourt rebounds), 7 assists, 3 steals and 2 blocks.
With 19 rebounds and six frontcourt rebounds per game, he set new career highs.
Jabari Smith is completely confident in shooting, dribbling the ball many times in the game and directly pulling out three-pointers, shooting 5 of 11, 3 of 8 three-pointers, back-to-back cut 15 points, 13 rebounds and 1 block double-double, it can be said that the better and better, the more and more prospecting strength.
Jaylen Green scored and assisted, scoring 15 points and eight assists in the first half, and made three more three-pointers in the third quarter to cut 13 points. Green played minutes in the game, shooting 11-of-19 from the field, 6-of-9 from three-point range, and slashed 28 points, 2 rebounds and 9 assists.
Nine assists is also Green's career high for assists in a single game, up from seven.
Porter Jr. didn't feel as good as Green, playing 29 minutes, shooting 6-of-13 from the field, cutting down 16 points, 3 rebounds and 5 assists.
Many teammates also helped
In addition to the Rockets 4 few, the other Rockets teammates are also very powerful. Veteran Gordon shot 4-of-6 from three-point range for 15 points, plus 2 assists and 1 steal; Matthews also shot 3 of 4 from the bench on the bench, and all of them were super long-range three-pointers, cutting 11 points and 2 rebounds; Ethan played only 16 minutes, had seven points and six rebounds, and five straight points in the second quarter were highlights, and Sellars should have given him more playing time.
Alexander empty chop 32 + 3 + 3 + 2
In the face of the bombardment of the Rockets' starting 5 people, Alexander on the Thunder's side seemed to be alone. In the first half, he scored 18 points alone, but the team trailed by 21 points.
When the Thunder trailed by 25 points in the third quarter, it was he who stepped up and scored consecutive points to stop the bleeding for the team.
In the whole game, Alexander played 27 and a half points, shot 12 of 21, made 7 of 7 free throws, and scored a maximum of 32 points, 3 rebounds, 3 assists and 2 steals.
After this game, the Rockets' record became 5-14, tying the Pistons for the bottom place in the West; The Thunder missed out on a two-game winning streak, turning their record to 8-12 and continuing to be twelfth in the West.