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With 52.4 seconds left, K.J. Martin took off for a dunk only to slam into the Kings’ Keegan Murray for an offensive foul. The Rockets challenged the call, but it was unsuccessful. Fox needed less than 10 seconds to sink a floater to pull the Kings to within one with 42.9 seconds left.
Murray tied up Martin on the rebound, but with five seconds left, Martin won the jump ball when it was ruled out of bounds off Fox. The Rockets took possession with the lead and just 2.4 seconds left to make it stand. “I didn’t find anyone. I didn’t know they had timeouts,” said Sengun, who had a career-high 11 assists and came within one rebound of his third triple-double. “That’s why I threw the ball with time left.”in their sights.
“We played the game that we were supposed to play,” Gordon said. “We stayed in it and we were up the majority of the game. That’s how we should play. We’ve got to understand that’s how we should play moving forward and that’s the only way our guys are going to get better.”
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