The Rockets challenged the Bulls on the road, Dillon and Eason continued to miss due to injuries, and LaVine played on the Bulls' side. Rockets starting lineup: VanVleet, Jalen Green, Tate, Smith, Shin Kyung!Bulls starting lineup: White, LaVine, DeRozan, Caruso, Vucevic.
At the beginning of the first quarter, the Rockets were mainly anti-away, and Van Jordan was full of offense and defense, with mid-range shots, cut balls, and three-pointers. The Bulls made consecutive iron errors, and after Jalen Green made a steal, he scored a fast-break layup and scored again, playing a wave of 7-0 mini-climax, and the Bulls could only call a stop. After the timeout, DeRozan stopped the bleeding with three points, Tate made a foul free throw, Green hit a layup, Azan scored another three points and mid-range, and scored eight points in a row to help the team narrow the difference. The scores of the two teams alternated between the back and forth, and Vucevic also began to score inside, and after 14-17, the two sides made personnel adjustments, and Udoka replaced the White Devils. The Bulls' shooting rate was very high, and the Rockets couldn't match the firepower, so Zhuang Shen made a strong basket and scored 23-16 to lead by 7 points to stop the opponent. Back in the game, Jeff Green and Amen came up, and Holiday scored a rebound to stop the bleeding, but the Bulls immediately responded with three points, but the old brother-in-law and Xiaobao scored 4 points in a row to bite the difference. Jalen Green hit a last-ditch buzzer-shot to give the Bulls a four-point lead at 28-24 at the end of the first quarter.
In the second quarter, the two sides rotated the lineup stage, DeRozan first made Smith foul and made two free throws, the White Devils stepped forward and scored three points + free throws to score 5 points in a row, Amen counterattacked and pushed to the layup, and then assisted Smith to hit a three-point shot, the Rockets blasted out a wave of 10-0 small climax directly overtook 4 points, Damsu stopped the bleeding, and the old Green hit Zhuang Shen 2+1, and then flew the opponent to break through the dunk Pawe! The Bulls stubbornly equalized with three points, and after the two sides hit the iron, the game went into a timeout. Back in the game, Jalen Green was fouled for three points, but the referee actually fouled him early and did not give three free throws. The Bulls seized the opportunity to play a wave of 5-0, the Rockets offense hit consecutive irons, White chased a three-pointer and hit again, the Bulls led by 8 points at 49-41, and Udoka called a timeout. Van Jordan made a difficult shot to stop the bleeding, Tate hit an inside shot, the Rockets returned a 4-0, Caruso and LaVine scored three points in a row, and the difference has reached double digits, and Smith and Jalen Green also returned two three-pointers. At halftime, the Bulls led by eight points, 62-54.
In the second half, Shen Jing and Jalen Green on the Rockets' side stepped up and scored consecutive points to narrow the gap. After Van Jordan made a steal, the Bulls called a timeout after a quick break to chase 7 points at 66-73. After the timeout, LaVine began to take over the offense, making mid-range shots and breaking through to stop the Rockets. The timeout came back with a small surge for the Rockets, and Jalen Green trailed by just three points after assisting Smith for a dunk. But after that, their offense suddenly lost power, and the Bulls seized the opportunity to counterattack with consecutive mistakes, and White chased down a three-pointer and hit again, and a wave of 10-1 small climax led to 12 points, and Udoka could only call a stop. Before the end of the third quarter, the White Devils scored five straight points to put the Rockets behind by 11 points at 83-94 heading into the fourth quarter.
At the beginning of the final quarter, Rocket Smith added 4 substitutes, and the offense was a mess, and the Bulls' three-point and mid-range difference had come to 16 points, and the game was basically reduced to garbage time. After the timeout came back, the Rockets replaced some of the main forces, and responded with a wave of 6-0 to chase 10 points in one minute, and the Bulls called a timeout. Back to the game, the two teams launched a battle of offense, Shen Jing scored inside, Smith and Van Jordan continued to fire on the outside, and the Rockets brought the suspense back. After 112-104 the Bulls requested a timeout. Shin Kyung and Jalen Green teamed up to close the gap to 3 points, DeRozan faked a fall and received a technical foul, Udoka failed the challenge but Van Jordan assisted Shin Kyung for a layup to tie the game. DeRozan and Smith didn't score, and the two teams went into overtime.
In overtime, the Rockets scored 4 points in a row, and then Shen Jing completely went crazy, and even beat Vucevic and roared passionately! LaVine faced the White Devils 2+1 to stop the bleeding, and then pulled out a three-point shot, and one person scored 6 points in a row to complete the overtake, the Rockets missed in a row, and White scored three points again to completely kill the game.
In the end, the Rockets lost to the Bulls 119-124 away and suffered two consecutive defeats. Let's take a look at the players' performances!
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Today Jalen Green didn't pull his hip and faced DeRozan on the offensive end. He scored eight points in the first quarter, including two points at the end of the whistle.
Green played 16 and a half points in the first half, shooting 5-of-10 from the field and 1-of-3 from three-point range, finishing with 11 points, 2 rebounds, 2 assists and 1 steal.
In the third quarter, he played well in the first half of the quarter, contributing 5 points and 2 assists, but he began to play iron and make mistakes, and the opponent seized the opportunity to blast out a wave of small climaxes to open the score.
After coming back in the fourth quarter, he didn't feel good, but he continued to send assists, and 2+0 for the team at the critical moment. It's a pity that Green didn't contribute in overtime. In the whole game, he played 40 minutes, shooting 8-of-19, 2-of-7 three-pointers, and 0-of-1 free throws, contributing 18 points, 6 rebounds and 8 assists.
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Since winning the best of the week, Shin Kyung's form has been really poor. Today was a crime, and he played the worst game of the season.
In the first half, he shot 0-of-5 from the field, 0-of-1 from three-point range, and 0-of-2 from the free-throw line, and did not score, scoring only 5 rebounds, 4 assists and 2 steals, with a plus/minus of -15.
In the second half, he finally found a little offensive feeling, scoring seven points in the third quarter. In the fourth quarter, he faced Vucevic and scored 12 points in a single quarter. He scored six more points in overtime.
Shen Jing played 41 minutes in the game, shooting 11 of 19, contributing 25 points, 9 rebounds, 5 assists and 2 steals.
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LaVine came back and teamed up with DeRozan and Vucevic, and the Big Three worked together to blow the Rockets out.
DeRozan had 12 points, 3 rebounds and 2 assists in the first half, Vucevic had 8 points, 9 rebounds and 2 assists, and LaVine had 9 points, 6 rebounds, 5 assists, 3 steals and 1 block.
In the third quarter, LaVine scored 8 points in a single quarter, DeRozan scored 7 points in a single quarter, and Vucevic scored 4 points to lead the team to open up the difference.
In overtime, when the Bulls trailed by 5 points, LaVine stood up with a 2+1 and a three-pointer to directly turn the situation around. In this game, he played 41 minutes, shooting 8-of-15, 4-of-8 three-pointers, 5-of-6 free throws, and scored 25 points, 13 rebounds, 7 assists and 3 steals.