Coming off its worst loss of the season, Houston gets two cracks at Sacramento, which...
Center Alperen Sengun , forward Kenyon Martin Jr. and the rest of the Rockets have done little to stop Kings forward Domantas Sabonis , who in two games against them this season is averaging a triple-double of 22 points, 14.5 rebounds and 12.5 assists.Before the Rockets’ flop in Oklahoma City on Saturday, their most lopsided loss of the season came three weeks earlier at Sacramento.They expect to be better equipped for their latest pursuit of a bounce-back performance.
The Rockets have lost six of their past seven meetings, including four of five home games, against the Kings.The Rockets have not done well when playing the same opponent in consecutive games. “I like it,” Rockets coach Stephen Silas said of playing the same team in consecutive games as the Rockets and Kings will again this week, citing"the familiarity of playing a team a second time, especially for our group, because we are so young and inexperienced and don’t know the tendencies as well as a team that’s playing in the league five, six years.
The Kings have their own uncertainty. De’Aaron Fox, a candidate to be added to the All-Star roster with Stephen Curry out, has missed the past two games, He and his wife, Recee Caldwell, are expecting their first child, but the Kings have said only that he is out for personal reasons. It is unclear if he will return to play in his hometown.
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