Let\u2019s get the negatives out of the way: Jalen Green is not playing tonight in his first return to Toyota Center as an opposing player. Devin Booker is also out.<\/p>\n
However, Dillon Brooks is available and is going to take 30 shots. It should be a fun time. He got off to a slow start against Houston in the first meeting between these teams, but found his footing in the second quarter and was pretty awesome. He finished with a game-high 29 points and led multiple charges from down double digits.<\/p>\n
That was really the story of the first game. Houston locked down Booker (18 points, 6 turnovers) and forced the other Suns to beat them. And every time Houston took a double digit lead and threatened to run away with the game, Phoenix answered with a run of their own. That was until the fourth quarter, when Houston finally put their foot down and won 114-92. Still, the final score didn\u2019t really tell the story.<\/p>\n
Tonight is the first night of a back-to-back for Houston. Tomorrow night they\u2019ll be in Dallas to take on the (suddenly surging?) Mavericks. Expect Steven Adams to sit one of these games, but as of this writing there has been no indication as to which game he will miss.<\/p>\n
Dorian Finney-Smith: OUT (ankle)<\/p>\n
The Line (as of this post)<\/p>\n
Looking ahead because we can<\/p>\n
Saturday night on the road against the Dallas Mavericks<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Let\u2019s get the negatives out of the way: Jalen Green is not playing tonight in his first return…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":78205,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57,6330],"class_list":["post-78204","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\/78204","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=78204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78204\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}