It wasn’t just the poor free-throw shooting, the turnovers, or the scoring woes - but they each played a part in the (1-4) Houston Rockets’ Halloween night thumping from the hands of the (4-3) Los Angeles Lakers.
Houston turned the ball over 25 times, shot 15-29 from the charity stripe, and only knocked down 6-27 of their shots from beyond the arc and the Lakers were able to feast off that despite not seeing any huge performances from any of their starters - not that they needed it.
Carmelo Anthony led the game in scoring with 23 points while the highest-scoring Rocket was Eric Gordon who pitched in 17 points on 4-10 shooting, with all of those makes coming from three-point range.