With just under eight minutes to play and already 16 points behind on the scoreboard, things were starting to feel seriously scorched for the Rockets. Jalen Green pulled up the leather and saw Kevin Porter Jr. cut by the Clippers defense. So the back played his one-on-one, without the ball changing hands on possession, and sent a very complicated “step-back” from a distance, head of the racket.
This action is undoubtedly symptomatic of the difficulties highlighted by Eric Gordon after the defeat. ” We didn’t play our game, we played without energy, without being together and here is the result. If you have a winning mentality, spinning the ball is something to do. Believing in your teammates and in what you have to do, that’s how it goes when you’re trying to win. We didn’t do it », sums up the 33-year-old.
The last veteran of the team has reason to be frustrated. On a personal level, he had to settle for four points scored last night, with four shots attempted (1/4). His 12 points average since the start of the season is also his lowest production in his career.
Above all, collectively, the Rockets are in very bad shape: two wins and twelve losses… “ It’s hard… It’s always the same thing, year after year, game after game. The season is long. When you get out of matches like this so early, it’s hard “, repeats the player. If he is not transferred during the exercise, he is “well” on his way to experiencing his third season in a row far from the balanced balance sheet, and therefore from the playoffs.
Frustration in the air
Last night, in addition to collective shortcomings, the Rockets showed signs of frustration. Like an Alperen Sengun who chained the fouls conceded in a last quarter much better negotiated by the Clippers. Is the sequence of defeats beginning to weigh?
” I don’t know exactly what the source was, whether it was the previous defeats or something. But there was frustration on the floor. I could feel it “confirms Stephen Silas.
Perhaps it was also the fact of seeing the Clippers find a permanent answer, including when Kenyon Martin Jr, well served below, chained two consecutive dunks to launch the Rockets well at the start of the last quarter. Or when these same Rockets have chained passages on the free throw line to convert only a little more than half (19/31…).
” Many things can be frustrating. But that cannot define us. When facing adversity, not letting frustration get to you is something young people need to work on “claims the coach. ” I hate to sound like a broken record when it comes to how young the team is and how these guys need experience. But yes, in the face of adversity, letting frustration get to you is something young players do. »
| Shots | Bounces | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Players | GM | Minimum | Shots | 3 points | LF | Off | Def | Early | pd | bp | Int | CT | party | Points |
| Jalen Green | 13 | 34.3 | 42.6 | 37.5 | 78.6 | 0.6 | 3.4 | 4.0 | 2.8 | 2.7 | 0.8 | 0.3 | 1.6 | 21.8 |
| Kevin Porter, Jr. | 13 | 35.0 | 41.5 | 34.2 | 77.6 | 1.5 | 4.2 | 5.7 | 5.8 | 4.1 | 1.2 | 0.3 | 2.9 | 19.2 |
| Alperen Sengun | 11 | 26.2 | 57.7 | 23.1 | 79.3 | 3.7 | 5.4 | 9.1 | 2.0 | 1.9 | 0.7 | 1.0 | 3.4 | 16.1 |
| Eric Gordon | 11 | 30.6 | 45.4 | 36.7 | 81.5 | 0.2 | 1.8 | 2.0 | 3.4 | 1.9 | 0.8 | 0.5 | 0.9 | 12.9 |
| Kj Martin | 13 | 25.5 | 51.4 | 34.0 | 66.7 | 1.3 | 3.7 | 5.0 | 1.6 | 1.2 | 0.5 | 0.6 | 2.2 | 11.2 |
| Jabari Smith, Jr. | 12 | 29.7 | 31.5 | 28.6 | 84.6 | 1.5 | 5.3 | 6.8 | 0.8 | 1.3 | 0.2 | 1.1 | 3.7 | 10.3 |
| 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 |
| Tari Eason | 13 | 18.4 | 42.7 | 44.0 | 78.9 | 2.2 | 2.8 | 4.9 | 1.2 | 0.8 | 1.5 | 0.5 | 2.4 | 8.3 |
| Bruno Fernando | 2 | 18.4 | 83.3 | 0.0 | 50.0 | 2.5 | 4.0 | 6.5 | 4.5 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 1.0 | 1.5 | 5.5 |
| Garrison Mathews | 12 | 12.5 | 34.1 | 35.0 | 100.0 | 0.1 | 0.8 | 0.8 | 0.4 | 0.4 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 1.3 | 4.2 |
| Usman Garuba | 11 | 15.0 | 55.2 | 80.0 | 45.5 | 2.3 | 3.3 | 5.5 | 1.1 | 1.3 | 0.9 | 0.5 | 1.7 | 3.7 |
| Daishen Nix | 11 | 13.8 | 38.2 | 45.5 | 75.0 | 0.3 | 1.0 | 1.3 | 2.2 | 1.5 | 0.8 | 0.1 | 0.8 | 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 | 9 | 8.4 | 36.7 | 8.3 | 50.0 | 0.3 | 1.2 | 1.6 | 0.6 | 0.7 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 0.6 | 2.7 |
| Boban Marjanovic | 5 | 3.3 | 50.0 | 0.0 | 60.0 | 0.2 | 1.0 | 1.2 | 0.2 | 0.4 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.2 | 1.4 |
