Clippers vs Rockets

The Los Angeles Clippers and Houston Rockets are both struggling teams right now, and they should play a low-scoring matchup on Sunday.

Los Angeles (22nd in pace) also slows the game down, another good sign for the UNDER. 8 seed in the Western Conference. Rockets vs.

The LA Clippers continue their home stand against the visiting Houston Rockets. Game Information Where: Crypto.com Arena, Los Angeles, CAWhen: 12 PM PTHow.

This is as close to a gimmie game as you can get for the Clippers. The Rockets come to town with the worst record in the Western Conference. They are near the bottom of the NBA in both offensive and defensive rating. It might be a good time for some of these end of the bench guys to get playing time against a Rockets team that may or nay not depleted. The team is already without Paul George and Luke Kennard, two players critical to their offense, and they will also be without Moses Brown, who is [nearing the maximum number of games](https://213hoops.com/clippers-must-decide-moses-browns-future/) he is allowed on a two-way contract. Despite some changing lineups, some of the same issues, such as offensive inconsistency and turnovers, continued to plague the Clips.

Kawhi Leonard scores 30 points on 50% shooting as the Clippers defeat the Rockets on Sunday. ByAP.

[Norman Powell](http://www.espn.com/nba/player/_/id/2595516/norman-powell) led the bench with 18 points. [Jalen Green](http://www.espn.com/nba/player/_/id/4437244/jalen-green) and Jae’Sean Tate served one-game suspensions for leaving the bench area during an on-court altercation in Friday’s loss at Sacramento. Everybody was moving slow and that might have been because it was an early game,” Mann said. He scored 13 points, including nine straight, in 11 minutes of the opening quarter. The Clippers were missing starters [Paul George](http://www.espn.com/nba/player/_/id/4251/paul-george) (right hamstring soreness) and Marcus Morris (left knee contusion). [Kawhi Leonard](http://www.espn.com/nba/player/_/id/6450/kawhi-leonard) added 30 for the Clippers, who had dropped eight of nine.

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Kawhi Leonard and Terance Mann combine for 61 points and the shorthanded Clippers play tough defense in fourth quarter to beat the Houston Rockets.

The Rockets also didn’t have Kevin Porter, their second-leading scorer (19.2), because of a left foot injury. But we still can have our core principles on both sides of the basketball, and that’s the most important.” And then we got an MRI and then they called me at 6 o'clock and told me what it was.” “Our principles can stay the same, no matter who’s on the floor,” Lue said before the game. They held the Rockets to 10 points, on 25% shooting, in the final 12 minutes. He also had six rebounds, four assists and drilled a three-pointer from half court to beat the halftime buzzer.

Behind 61 combined points from Terance Mann and Kawhi Leonard, the Los Angeles Clippers took down the Houston Rockets 121-100.

Truth be told, Reggie Jackson is not looking himself right now and it is tough to watch. You can’t help but feel that if it weren’t for all the injury issues that we’re still seeing, it would translate to more winning basketball, but we have to take what we can get right now. Tonight, Tyronn Lue chose to start Amir Coffey instead of Robert Covington and it cost them some of their defensive solidity – although the lineups are trending in the right direction now. After the game, Ivica Zubac said that starting slow had been the Clippers problem for a few years, and he’s right. And what we’re getting is huge performances from Mann. However, it was the home side who tightened things up in the second, as the wheels fell off for Stephen Silas’s lean, mean rebuilding machine.