Much like the previous games for the Philadelphia 76ers, this was a rough one to watch all the way through.
The Sixers held the NBA’s second-best offensive team, the Houston Rockets, to just 20 points in the first quarter, which showed a tremendous amount of hope for the rest of the game. That hope faded quickly.
Ben Simmons started off the game defending Russell Westbrook but ended up switching onto James Harden eventually. Simmons held his own for the most part, but Harden eventually figured out how to work the Sixers’ defense.