#Charlotte Hornets at Houston Rockets
Toyota Center- Houston, TX
[ESPN](https://www.espn.com/nba/game/_/gameId/401584750)
[TV/Radio](/r/CharlotteHornets/comments/17l8oea/game_thread_charlotte_hornets_12_at_houston/k7cgi0g/)
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|Time Clock|
|:–:|
|Final|
||Q1|Q2|Q3|Q4|Total|
|:–|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|
|CHA |27|31|20|41|119|
|HOU |39|22|25|42|128|
###Player Stats
**Charlotte Hornets**
|Player|MINS|PTS|FGM-A|3PM-A|FTM-A|ORB|DRB|REB|AST|STL|BLK|TO|PF|+/-|
|:–|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|
|G. Hayward|30:52|17|6-11|0-1|5-7|2|5|7|5|1|1|1|1|-3
|P. Washington|35:01|23|8-13|5-6|2-2|1|2|3|0|0|0|1|2|0
|M. Williams|25:17|9|3-4|0-0|3-6|3|3|6|1|2|2|1|0|-1
|T. Rozier|38:29|21|10-21|1-6|0-0|2|1|3|6|1|0|4|0|-1
|L. Ball|33:25|19|7-15|2-6|3-4|1|0|1|5|1|0|3|4|-14
|J. Thor|13:24|5|2-4|1-3|0-0|0|5|5|0|3|1|1|2|-15
|B. Miller|23:56|10|4-9|1-3|1-2|1|4|5|2|0|0|1|5|-6
|N. Richards|18:43|10|3-6|0-0|4-4|4|4|8|0|0|4|1|3|-9
|T. Maledon|20:53|5|2-7|1-2|0-0|1|5|6|2|1|0|3|2|4
**Houston Rockets**
|Player|MINS|PTS|FGM-A|3PM-A|FTM-A|ORB|DRB|REB|AST|STL|BLK|TO|PF|+/-|
|:–|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|
|D. Brooks|38:29|20|7-9|3-3|3-4|1|2|3|5|5|0|7|4|-3
|J. Smith Jr.|30:06|17|7-10|3-5|0-0|0|6|6|4|0|1|2|3|-1
|A. Sengun|27:09|19|9-12|1-1|0-1|1|6|7|4|1|0|1|1|9
|J. Green|30:53|23|6-16|4-8|7-7|1|3|4|3|2|0|1|3|-4
|F. VanVleet|38:58|22|8-17|5-10|1-1|0|3|3|11|0|0|2|1|14
|A. Thompson|13:13|4|1-3|0-1|2-2|0|1|1|1|1|0|1|3|10
|J. Tate|18:55|4|1-5|1-2|1-2|1|5|6|5|0|0|0|4|17
|J. Landale|19:06|4|1-7|0-3|2-2|3|2|5|1|1|1|1|1|2
|J. Green|12:18|9|2-3|2-2|3-4|0|2|2|0|0|0|1|1|2
|A. Holiday|10:51|6|2-2|2-2|0-0|0|1|1|1|0|0|1|1|-1
###Team Stats
|Team|FGM-A|3PM-A|FTM-A|AST|PF|STL|TO|BLK|OREB|DREB|REB|
|:–|:–|:–|:–|:–|:–|:–|:–|:–|:–|:–|:–|
|CHA|45-90|11-27|18-25|21|19|9|16|8|15|29|53|
|HOU|44-84|21-37|19-23|35|22|10|17|2|7|31|43|
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The Rockets shot 57% from 3. That’s all you need to know.
Can we fire Clifford now?
Brutal loss. When do we ask the hard questions?
Worst shooting team in the NBA had a 3 pt contest against us. Whatever the coaching staff is doing on defense ain’t working obviously
*Very* reminiscent of that [weirdo game from a few years ago](https://www.basketball-reference.com/boxscores/202111270HOU.html ) where everyone on a tanking Rockets team turned into prime Steph.
I doubt anything happens, but it feels like we need to do something … anything … to change the vibes of the starting lineup. We’re constantly getting battered at the start of every game.
Fire Steve Clifford yesterday
When are Mitch and Cliff getting fired?
Worst part for me is having to wait till Saturday to see if this team is finally gonna wake the fuck up. Only time they’ve seemed to care is against Atlanta and in the last 30 seconds of the last two games getting blown out. Pray to the basketball gods LaMelo got his shit right again the last couple minutes.
Okay my expectations for the season are back to reality
Would welcome a soft reset. Melo, Miller, Mark, PJ need real pieces around them. Rozier and Hayward are not it. Especially Rozier. Would love to see what some of our rooks other than Miller got too. Nick Smith can score man give him some opportunity off the bench.
The entire idea around hiring a defensive minded coach on an offensive minded team is absolutely ridiculous. Borrego was able to use a team extremely similar like this one (although with Bridges) and lead them to 43 wins.
If the new ownership doesn’t fire Mitch Kupchak and Steve Clifford then they’re unserious about turning this team around and we shouldn’t take them seriously.
James borrego taking a worse version of this squad to the play-in was insane in hindsight
I wouldn’t be sticking around after the buzzer to be congratulating the rockets players after they just handed you a beat down
Theo was a massive disappointment in this game.
Rozier is a black hole. Why does he think he is prime Kobe Bryant
Either way I hope the end of this game has put lamelo into rhythm and he can at least return to what he was the end of last season
Remember when Kenny Atkinson was about to be our head coach and then changed his mind at the last second so we had to scramble and hire Cliff? Good times
If we’re gonna have that terrible of playmaking and defense we might as well give NSJ some minutes.
This is literally the 2019-20 hornets
We all got fooled game 1, eh?
Cliff’s throat sounds quite sore in this post game interview.
> [“We just shot 50% from the field, 41% from three on the road and lost, that’s crazy. Our defense was awful, from pick and roll coverages to stuff we worked on for two days, they made us pay.”](https://twitter.com/HornetsOnBally/status/1719905939787055517)
I’m not sure what the point was for playing small if everyone was going to collapse for the double team for Sengun. Might as well leave Mark Williams in the game and have the peace of mind to stay and guard the perimeter. So many open threes were given up… This roster is too good to be performing so poorly.
I think we have some personnel to at least give a better defensive effort than tonight. When Bridges comes back that will help. But that’s a rough position to rely on a guy who hasn’t played in a year
Lock these dudes in the film room and throw away the key
Let’s talk about Terry Rozier for a little bit. It can be very deceiving if you box score scout but watching the game, he LOVES to put the blinders on and just keep the ball when he gets it and take a high degree of difficulty shot. It cripples the offense. I’d rather play Bouk at PG than watch more of that.
We’re the only franchise who can fire a coach for shit performance, watch him go to another bottom feeder with terrible performance, and hire him back to repeat the cycle. I love it here. As a panther and hornet fan together…this sucks 😅
It’s time for these new owners to end the honeymoon period and make some changes while the season is still young. Do we have an assistant that’s worth a damn to be the interim coach for the rest of this season? Get Terry the hell outta here too. We need a dog on this team, someone with an infectious attitude. We do not have that.