Ah yes, the one who got away.
The last time these teams played, the Portland Trail Blazers used a prayerfully banked Jerami Grant to send the game into overtime. There is that they used an offensive blitz to put the game aside and let the Houston Rockets with an unexpected victory. For the Rockets, that’s probably when they realized they weren’t a playmaking team as currently constructed.
For fun: The Blazers scored on five straight possessions, starting with Malcolm Brogdon’s triple with three seconds remaining. Grant put one in at the buzzer, Brogdon hit another to start OT, Grant followed with a jumper and Brogdon banked in a jumper.
In just under two minutes, the Blazers went on a 13-4 lead. If you want someone else to do the math, I did it. That’s an offensive efficiency of 312. Basically, the Blazers have gone supernova. Houston was also blitzed in the third quarter when the Blazers scored 41 points behind a strong outing from Anfernee Simons, who was electric all night.
Brogdon has been out since early February, so the Rockets will have a break there. Tonight should be the opportunity to win their seventh away match.
Trick
9:00 p.m. CT
How to watch
Space City domestic network
Injury report
Rockets
Jeff Green-GTD (knee)
Jackets
Toumani Camara-GTD (illness)
Scoot Henderson-Douteux (thigh)
Deandre Ayton-Douteux (hand)
Malcolm Brogdon-OUT (elbow)
The line (from this article)
Looking to the future because we can
Sunday night in Sacramento against the Kings
