With three straight home wins and four wins in seven games, the Rockets are looking much better. The narrow victory against the Suns felt good, as did the one against James Harden and the Sixers.
It took 58 minutes to win against Philadelphia, but the Rockets had the last laugh after the second overtime. The very difficult start to the season (only one victory in ten matches) is slowly starting to become a bad memory for this young group, which is showing its collective progress.
“A month ago, we probably wouldn’t have won this game. We stayed in the game, we gained confidence as we went along,” believes Stephen Silas for the Houston Chronicle. “Earlier in the season, a match like this, we might not have won”adds Tari Eason, who agrees with her coach.
“When you start to see the results, the atmosphere starts to change”
With 52 points scored in the racket (an area where the troops of Stephen Silas insist lately) and 51 rebounds taken, the Texans won important battles to dominate Joel Embiid and his gang.
“We have the experience now and we have corrected certain things”, advances Tari Eason to explain these best-dealed hot moments. “Our offensive execution at the end of the game is much better. We are fighters too, we never give up. This is our message: we are young but we are already here. And we can only progress. »
An attitude that now turns into victory. ” It feels good “, slips Kevin Porter Jr. “We work again and again and when we start to see the results, the atmosphere starts to change. »
The Rockets can continue from the next game, Thursday night in San Antonio, since the Spurs are currently at the bottom of the hole, with 11 straight losses. Then, you will have to climb much steeper passes: Milwaukee, Phoenix, Miami and Portland. But they have just demonstrated that they can do it.
“It’s huge for our confidence,” says the coach. “When you spend so much time learning, developing ideas, you want it to bear fruit. Thus, not only the confidence of the players increases, but also that of our culture. When we fight in these matches, when we dominate good teams, we say to ourselves that we are going in the right direction. »
| Shots | Bounces | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Players | GM | Minimum | Shots | 3 points | LF | Off | Def | Early | pd | bp | Int | CT | party | Points |
| Jalen Green | 23 | 34.2 | 41.3 | 33.1 | 78.7 | 0.6 | 3.4 | 4.0 | 3.8 | 3.2 | 0.8 | 0.2 | 1.7 | 21.3 |
| Kevin Porter, Jr. | 22 | 34.3 | 41.4 | 34.1 | 76.3 | 1.5 | 4.2 | 5.7 | 6.0 | 3.9 | 1.3 | 0.4 | 2.9 | 18.8 |
| Alperen Sengun | 20 | 26.4 | 56.0 | 19.0 | 79.1 | 3.3 | 5.3 | 8.6 | 2.3 | 2.3 | 0.8 | 1.0 | 3.4 | 15.2 |
| Eric Gordon | 19 | 29.5 | 43.8 | 35.0 | 87.2 | 0.3 | 1.6 | 1.9 | 2.5 | 1.9 | 0.7 | 0.4 | 0.7 | 12.2 |
| Jabari Smith, Jr. | 22 | 29.8 | 36.7 | 34.8 | 85.7 | 1.3 | 5.5 | 6.9 | 0.8 | 1.1 | 0.4 | 1.0 | 3.2 | 11.6 |
| Kj Martin | 23 | 24.7 | 53.6 | 31.3 | 68.5 | 1.5 | 3.7 | 5.2 | 1.4 | 1.2 | 0.4 | 0.4 | 1.7 | 10.9 |
| Tari Eason | 23 | 18.6 | 41.8 | 34.1 | 83.3 | 2.2 | 3.2 | 5.4 | 0.9 | 0.8 | 1.3 | 0.4 | 2.2 | 8.4 |
| Jae’sean Tate | 3 | 22.7 | 50.0 | 40.0 | 75.0 | 2.7 | 1.7 | 4.3 | 3.3 | 1.7 | 1.0 | 0.0 | 5.0 | 8.3 |
| Bruno Fernando | 7 | 13.2 | 75.0 | 0.0 | 66.7 | 1.6 | 2.3 | 3.9 | 1.4 | 0.7 | 0.6 | 0.9 | 1.9 | 5.7 |
| Garrison Mathews | 20 | 13.8 | 38.6 | 38.8 | 95.7 | 0.1 | 1.1 | 1.2 | 0.5 | 0.4 | 0.5 | 0.1 | 1.5 | 5.1 |
| Usman Garuba | 21 | 15.8 | 58.2 | 63.6 | 58.3 | 1.9 | 3.2 | 5.1 | 1.1 | 0.9 | 0.9 | 0.8 | 2.0 | 4.0 |
| Daishen Nix | 21 | 15.1 | 34.8 | 34.8 | 69.2 | 0.4 | 1.4 | 1.8 | 2.4 | 1.4 | 0.7 | 0.1 | 0.9 | 3.5 |
| Trevor Hudgins | 1 | 3.8 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 3.0 |
| Josh Christopher | 17 | 7.2 | 43.8 | 21.4 | 83.3 | 0.3 | 0.8 | 1.1 | 0.6 | 0.7 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.7 | 2.9 |
| Boban Marjanovic | 7 | 3.6 | 42.9 | 0.0 | 66.7 | 0.1 | 0.9 | 1.0 | 0.1 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 1.4 |
| Tyty Washington, Jr. | 1 | 4.3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 50.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1.0 |
