Dillon Brooks Leads With 27 As Houston Rockets Overcome Turnovers, Sloppy Defense Vs Toronto Raptors

Dillon Brooks Leads With 27 As Houston Rockets Overcome Turnovers, Sloppy Defense Vs Toronto Raptors

The Houston Rockets, helped by a pair of unexpected bench heroes, clinched an ugly win against the Toronto Raptors, overcoming turnover woes and defensive lapses.

Host Jackson Gatlin (@JTGatlin) discusses the Rockets escaping with a win against the Raptors 114-110 despite their unserious play to start and how Jae’Sean Tate’s defensive energy and Cam Whitmore’s scoring punch helped turn things around, Dillon Brook’s game-high 27 in his native Canada, Jalen Green getting downhill and finishing despite lack of calls, Alperen Sengun with another slow start and strong finish, Fred VanVleet’s struggles and more.

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22 comments

  2. Trade for Zion, assuming low price (fillers and picks or for jalen straight up). We need a top 10 player and have the depth to carry the team when he’s injured. Also we can rehab him best like we did for yao and Dwight

  6. "run something" ? over the top or swing the ball and change the angle. Part of it's on Alpi not digging deeper but part of it is preparation. Post play has been a fading art, so has executing on instinct.

  8. I truly believe that cam whitmore if giving time to develop and to truly grasp the play of the NBA with his size strength shooting ability quickness leaping ability and just dog mentality in about 3 years he will be a rising star in the NBA upside 23 24 points a game five rebounds 5 assist but I like how coach udoka is bringing him alone keep them fresh let me play in the D-League then bringing them back to the team to build his confidence back up he needs to just slow down and understand that he can't force a play when there is no play pass the ball around the ball can move faster than any player can play defense pass up good shots for great shots a lot of games to come to him cuz truly he is really one of the most athletic 67 230 lb forward slash guard in the league he just needs to slow down and make the correct plays

  10. Loved how Jalen was getting downhill and not settling for contested 3s, especially when the shots aren't falling. Hope he continues the aggressive playstyle

  11. Three observations:

    #1) Dillon brooks has evolved into his final form: Dillon Cooks

    #2) Cam is one of our dogs! Get him minutes with the HOUnds: Bari, Tari, & Amen!

    #3) FVV is shooting 29.5% from 3 on 7.7 attempts. Every shot after going 0/5 from now on will be counted as a turnover

  12. A lot of rockets fans give Tate some grief myself included because there are times he have been tunnel vision and other stuff.

    But if he plays within the offense and does the little things. He is actually a legit rotation player on other teams. We just super deep at the wing position so Tate isn’t getting minutes.

    But it’s a luxury to have him and Cam in standby if in case Tari Dillion or Amen gets injured.

    Him and Cam were the reason we got back in the game with their energy and hustle,

    Also Dillion Brooks had a monster game and Jabari Jalen Sengun were solid as well.

    Wasn’t a pretty game but I’ll take the W. Got to cut down on those turnovers though

  13. Maybe Alpi gets confused when trying to create open space for three-point shots, and the team struggles to convert those opportunities. The team often misses three-point attempts and sometimes even fails to make two-point shots. This might put pressure on him to work some magic and drive to the rim.

  16. i like to know when is Steven Adam is going to pay off for this team and
    see some real playing time, or is he the new Bo-bon? i think Alfe' is shouldering
    too much and can benefit from a big physical back up.

  18. Shengun is the reason Jalen G. Struggles. Because Ime tryna play through Shengun and that hurts the team and Jalen G. He slows the team and the game down and he is highly overrated

  22. Cam can play multiple positions try him at center away from the basket and use his alethiscm to break down centers he should be more involved in the rotation consider a bench rotation of cam , tari' reed, Amen, and holiday

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