Houston was able to nab a much-needed win over Memphis on Thursday night.
On Thursday night, the white-hot Houston Rockets took on the Memphis Grizzlies in one of its more crucial games of the entire season.
Perhaps the biggest surprise of the 2024-25 season, the Rockets currently stand as the league’s outright No. 2 seed in the West, which the team earned with a 25-12 start. Against Memphis, it needed to defend that very standing. Luckily for the away team, a few of its stars found an efficient streak, coming away with a 119-115 win behind nice offensive outings from Alperen Sengun, Fred VanVleet and Jalen Green.
The Turkish center was the top scorer in the game, scoring 32 points on 12-for-20 shooting, nabbing 14 rebounds, five assists and a block, too. Green followed closely behind with 27 points on over 50% shooting overall and from three, and VanVleet add 22 with eight makes and five misses.After three losses in a four-game stretch last week, Houston has now course-corrected to three-straight wins, with the Memphis victory both defending it’s No. 2 standing and coming with an added bonus.
While the Rockets now hold a 1.5-game lead over the Grizzlies, it certainly hasn’t fended its Western Conference foe off for the last time. And Thursday’s win helped Houston grab a 2-0 head-to-head lead, which will undoubtedly come into play as the postseason nears.Derek is the Publisher for InsideTheThunder.com and Draft Digest for Fan Nation, powered by Sports Illustrated.
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