“Dubs is done!” – ESPN reacts to Rockets are just 0.5 games away from the No. 10 seed Warrior

“Dubs is done!” – ESPN reacts to Rockets are just 0.5 games away from the No. 10 seed Warrior

It’s over 500 at 36 and 35 Rockets have now won nine in a row and 11 of their last 12 what a month of March it has been as the Rockets take care of business tonight a winning streak started with the Blazers and well continues on with the Portland

Trailblazers and a quick look at the standings the Rockets just a half game back of the Golden State Warriors right now for that chance for the play on the play in as far as that is concerned Warriors have lost two straight they’ve lost six of their last 10 and they play

Their next four on the road so Rockets hoping to take advantage of that they’ve got a tough one coming up as well Golden State’s next game is at Miami Rocket’s next game is at Oklahoma City back alongside Calvin Murphy Calin ashenfelder back with his Rockets get

The win here tonight uh murf did a lot of good things particularly in the second half we talked talked about it but uh second half they were really able to to limit what Portland was trying to do hold him to 41 points in a half of

Basketball it’s not easy to do in the NBA you know first of all Kevin the first thing they did was to recognize coming into the second half that Portland was a a team on a mission they wanted to be the spoiler and the Rocks didn’t have the luxury of losing this

Game tonight trying to get into the playoff game that’s the first thing secondly they knew how they had to do it they knew they had to collectively tune up their defense and keep them from getting into the paint where they were scoring most of their points in the

First half thirdly what they did extremely well was they became very efficient once they stopped him a rebound or made a steal getting out and getting opportunity baskets keeping uh Portland on their heels defensively for the most of the second half all right let’s get more on this one tonight the

Guys who called tonight’s game Craig akan and Ryan Holland guys nine straight wins now for the Houston Rockets as they took out the Portland Tre lasers that out of Toyota Center to cap off a perfect 3 and0 hom stand the Rockets now a game above 500 and above 500 for the

First time since January the 12th this game did not start off well at all for the Rockets they really struggled in the first half particularly in the first quarter we’ll get to Jack lel’s performance here in a moment but this game was similar to the one that kickstarted this winning streak up in

Portland earlier this month the Rockets did not have a very good first half and then got uh got a light lit underneath them after that dunk by Jaylen green on anfred Simon similar in this one the Rockets turned things around at both ends of the floor in the second half led

By jayen Green Ryan who ended up having 27 more points tonight he had eight points at halftime so he had a strong second half and the rockets ultimately pulled away and won this thing easily yeah Jaylen did get going but more impressively the defense was what led

Jaylen Green in the second half and then getting out in transition and hats out to Portland they got back in transition they crowded the paint and they attacked the rim of the rock cuz they felt like they had something in that matchup and they had a lot of success in the first

Half but Jaylen got going started to look like himself knocked down a couple three-pointers Fred got in he had foul trouble and knocked down some shots also but for the most part this looked like the rockets that we know in hat outa Portland a much tougher game than

Expected yeah I mean the Rockets outscored him uh 6341 in the second half of this one up in Portland they outscored him 6844 in the second half so again very similar feels tonight between the game that started off this winning streak and the one that currently right now is the

Ninth win in a row for the Rockets as they’re only half a game behind the Golden State Warriors for the final play in spot in the Western Conference but I mentioned Jo l and the rockets poor start and it was a poor start but it was

A great start for jock Landell he made all of his shots in the first quarter had 15 points the best quarter of his career ended up with a season ey tying 17 points officially nine rebounds he got the start tonight because Jabari Smith Jr was suspended after that Al

Altercation with Chris Dunn the other night and that win over the Utah Jazz but this guy we’ve talked about him a lot we talked about Ching green quite a bit during this run for the Rockets here in the month of March but where were the rocks be without jock landale especially

In Li of the AL shenon injury well that first quarter spurt you know probably saved this ball game ABS because the Rockets weren’t getting stops they could have been down by like 20 points early in this game and they weren’t hitting shots and landale got two big finishes inside hit back-to-back three-pointers

That we saw he’s just doing whatever is needed he’s playing winning basketball and then he brought some energy to the crowd so he’s a veteran and he understands what this team needs so nine straight wins for the rockets and now they’re scheduled the rest of the regular season turns considerably more

Difficult it will be a test and hopefully the Rockets will ultimately be game for it the upcoming schedule as you see here for the Rockets it starts off with a road game in Oklahoma City another one on Friday night in Salt Lake City and again the rest of the way the

Schedule is much more difficult than it’s currently been here to start the month but the Rockets are rolling they Remain the hottest team in the league and look forward to seeing what they can do against one of the best teams in the NBA in the Oklahoma City Thunder and OKC

Coming up in a few nights Craig Ryan thank you very much all right uh well rocket success down the stretch reg reason as big a reason as any for their success during this nine game winning streak is this guy right here last 13 games you’re talking about a guy

That’s giving you just about 30 points each and every night and he’s doing it in an efficient manner murf that’s the difference right now is that he is shooting 48% during that stretch and 41% from three-point range well the one thing we found out about him during this

Stretch is his game is when he’s able to use his speed his quickness and his athleticism which means that the Rockets changed their style somewhat when sagon went out and they start up temping the uh ball a little better and getting the ball out in in front of of the defense

You know he reminds me of L lordy player people might not remember him but he was a player that played for the rockets that when in the open court there was nobody to stop him and this is where jayen green right now is starting to become when they get the ball off the

Glass and get it up front where he’s able to use that athleticism and speed he’s not to be stopped he got better hair than Lou Lloyd any hair would have been better yeah Lou didn’t have any hair so that solves that problem see where I went with that right let’s hear from Jaylen

Green mentality to turn things around that rough start and then get going the way you did um I mean I feel like R are getting like good looks um I think it’s just the defensive side that we weren’t playing no hardest um we got good looks

There this is a lit on the rim tonight or something but um you that was just a defensive game so I think that was a mentality coming into half or the third quarter and I think we executed on that anything individually that led you to turn things around

Um no I mean I just just wanted to win we couldn’t couldn’t lose head we on a roll right now yeah how important how important is e and stilling confidence for you and making you feel like you can play through mistakes and kind of work for you have oh it’s super important I

Mean that that’s been the main thing that we’ve been focusing on all season um when sh not fining how am I going to be able to still stay on the floor and um affect the game in other ways other than you know scoring so um I took that

Pride on defense and that’s been like my main focus this whole stet Wednesday in Oklahoma City yeah do you feel like that’s going to be the biggest game of your career just where you guys are at right now uh I think it’s just another game you know we rolling right now we

Know what we need to do going into into that game so just got to you know be ourselves all day you kind of want to see how the way you guys are playing measures up to the team that’s in first place yeah I mean of course just to show

That you know we we a contined team we deserve to be in there um and that’s that’s going to be our test right there and anything you take away from the two games that against them right after the break that you can take into this one um I

Mean we playing a whole different style of basketball right now so uh like I said just just focus on doing what we doing and um you know putting defense first jayan is a non straight with this team or are you guys at the point where maybe other teams should be paying

Attention to yeah yeah for sure they need to start paying attention for sure were you worried where you took off on that Breakaway dunk in the third quarter uh I mean I realized I took three dribbles so I was just hoping yeah I was just hoping at that point but once I

Seen I was floa into the rim I was just like okay I could dunk this so you think you can like go further I don’t know L I have no clue I need to get some recovery TI I’m tired playing stand is that something you guys are talking about and aware of

This point for sure I’m I’m looking at it every day I was watching the warries last night um so yeah I mean you know we making a push we got to go like I said before and we executing so we just got to stay the course so you’ll be locked

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“Dubs is done!” – ESPN reacts to Rockets are just 0.5 games away from the No. 10 seed Warrior