Same team, just a different day. Your Houston Rockets lost another relatively close game to the Los Angeles Clippers tonight, but at the very least they didn’t roll over after a shaky start.
LA got out to a quick 20-5 lead and built it to as much as 18 points before the Rockets bench quelled the onslaught. It’s not as if the Clippers were a juggernaut at the beginning of the game either. Houston suffered from some poor shot selection, including too many airballs.
There was a noticeable shift once the bench unit came in, and while there wasn’t a lot of firepower coming from the second unit as far as scoring goes, the aggression definitely went up a notch once Tari Eason Jr.