After a tough loss to the San Antonio Spurs, the Houston Rockets stay on the road to take on the 6-3 Milwaukee Bucks in an early tip-off.<\/p>\n
Milwaukee\u2019s offseason has been discussed to death, but they have started out better than expected, mostly due to Giannis Antetokounmpo\u2019s play. He\u2019s averaging 32.3 points, 12.6 rebounds, 6.3 assists, and 1.9 stocks per game. If the season ended today (which would be weird), he\u2019d have a serious argument with Nikola Jokic, Victor Wembanyama, and Luka Doncic for MVP.<\/p>\n
Milwaukee\u2019s also been bolstered by a player who has played for a good team in the recent past. I\u2019m speaking, of course, of Ryan Rollins, who has been a revelation for the Bucks. After being a rotation player last season, he\u2019s earned his way into the starting lineup and is averaging 16 points per night with good shooting splits. The big question for Milwaukee was their guard play, and Rollins has been the answer. Will he keep it up? We\u2019ll see, but the early returns are great.<\/p>\n
The Bucks added Miles Turner in the offseason as well. He hasn\u2019t gotten off to the best start, but you know that means he\u2019s ripe for a get right game tonight. Milwaukee\u2019s other scorers come in the form of Kyle Kuzma, Gary Trent Jr., AJ Green, and Cole Anthony. Bobby Portis can bang down low and up high when he wants.<\/p>\n
The Rockets will want to get the bitter taste of the Spurs defeat out of their mouths. They were outworked and outplayed by San Antonio and couldn\u2019t keep the basketball or grab defensive rebounds. The turnovers are going to be a problem for much of the season, but Houston has now had a week to figure out how to handle defensive schemes that throw double teams at Kevin Durant every time he touches the ball. Have they done their homework? We\u2019ll find out.<\/p>\n
Dorian Finney-Smith: OUT (ankle)<\/p>\n
The Line (as of this post)<\/p>\n
Looking ahead because we can<\/p>\n
Wednesday night in Houston against the Washington Wizards<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After a tough loss to the San Antonio Spurs, the Houston Rockets stay on the road to take…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":41746,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57,6330],"class_list":["post-41745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-rockets-game-previews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41745","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=41745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41745\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}