I\u2019m going to write this preview with the same effort that the Houston Rockets show most nights. Think of the next four paragraphs as the quarters in a game.<\/p>\n
Oh, there\u2019s a game tomorrow? I guess I can think about writing one. Who are we playing? The Portland Trail Blazers? Meh there\u2019s not good so no need to talk about them much.<\/p>\n
Okay wow I\u2019m probably losing people to anger or boredom, so I\u2019ll actually take a look at Portland. They\u2019re 21st in offensive efficiency and 20th in defensive rating. They take the third most three pointers in the league but are below average in efficiency on the offensive end. They\u2019re dead last in turnover rate, but they grab offensive rebounds at the second-best rate in the league, which is probably the best now that Steven Adams is out. Defensively, they create turnovers at a high level but aren\u2019t necessarily great on that end otherwise.<\/p>\n
Obviously, the Rockets players last night and the Blazers didn\u2019t. So it makes sense that the Blazers will be well-rested, especially after the Rockets played an overtime game. Reed Sheppard was awesome once again and actually got to play 37 minutes (out of 53, but still!). The only Rockets starter that finished with a positive +\/- was Amen Thompson.<\/p>\n
And for my last paragraph,<\/p>\n
The Line (as of this post)<\/p>\n
Looking ahead because we can<\/p>\n
Sunday night on the road against the San Antonio Spurs<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I\u2019m going to write this preview with the same effort that the Houston Rockets show most nights. Think…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":193290,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57,6330],"class_list":{"0":"post-193289","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-houston","9":"tag-houston-headlines","10":"tag-houston-news","11":"tag-rockets-game-previews"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193289\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}