Rockets vs Thunder

TV Channel: Bally Sports Oklahoma. Probable starting lineups. Oklahoma City Thunder. Shai Gilgeous-Alexander; Josh Giddey; Aaron Wiggins; Jalen ...

is out due to a foot contusion. Rockets: Jalen Green is out due to a calf contusion. Aleksej Pokusevski is out due to a tibial fracture.

Coach Stephen Silas credited Gordon for keeping this young team focused when the game was close down the stretch. ''Eric tonight was so steady and when we went ...

The Rockets outrebounded Oklahoma City 65-52 Wednesday. . Martin had 18 points and seven rebounds. . Sengun had 10 points and 12 rebounds. . Mann had 18 points off the bench. Gordon missed two free throws after that, and Gilgeous-Alexander made two for Oklahoma City, cutting the lead to 105-100. . Oklahoma City made 12 of 43 3-pointers. Eason got a steal a couple of minutes later and drove in for a layup, but missed. But Houston got consecutive 3s from Garrison Mathews and Eason after that to go on top 90-89. ''Eric tonight was so steady and when we went down five or six he was the one settling the guys down, and that's important,'' Silas said. ''It's a little bit of both,'' he said. The Rockets scored the last four points of the quarter to cut the lead to two entering the fourth. Houston was up by eight after baskets by Gordon and Martin early in the third quarter before the Thunder used a 9-0 run, with seven points from Jaylin Williams, to take a 72-71 lead.

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The Oklahoma City Thunder will travel to take on the Houston Rockets in a Wednesday night NBA matchup at the Toyota Center in Houston.

Houston has scored 109.6 points per game, 29th in the league. leads the team with 5.6 assists per game, also ranking second with 19.2 points per game. has put in a solid debut season, averaging 11.9 points and 7.0 rebounds per game, which ranks second The defense has been lacking, as opponents have averaged 115.9 points per game, which is 20th in the league. Alperen Sengun leads the team with 8.9 rebounds on average while also putting up 15.5 points per game. Jalen Green, who went second overall in 2021, leads the team with 21.7 points per game, which is a four-point increase from his rookie season. Giddey also ranks second on the Thunder with 16.1 points per game. Shai Gilgeous-Alexander has broken out in a big way, averaging 30.9 points, and 1.7 steals per game, both of which lead the team. Jalen Williams ranks fourth with 12.1 points and second with 1.1 steals per game. Oklahoma City has averaged 116.9 points per game, which ranks sixth in the league. The Thunder now find themselves in 11th place in the Western Conference. The Rockets are in dead last in the Western Conference.

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But Houston got consecutive 3s from [Garrison Mathews](http://www.espn.com/nba/player/_/id/3913180/garrison-mathews) and Eason after that to go on top 90-89. Eason got a steal a couple of minutes later and drove in for a layup, but missed. Gordon missed two free throws after that, and Gilgeous-Alexander made two for Oklahoma City, cutting the lead to 105-100. [Tre Mann](http://www.espn.com/nba/player/_/id/4432819/tre-mann) opened the fourth quarter with a 3-pointer to extend Oklahoma City’s lead to five points. [Josh Giddey](http://www.espn.com/nba/player/_/id/4871145/josh-giddey) scored 20 with eight rebounds and eight assists. [Josh Christopher](http://www.espn.com/nba/player/_/id/4432168/josh-christopher) before the Thunder got a free throw from [Darius Bazley](http://www.espn.com/nba/player/_/id/4423545/darius-bazley) and a jump shot from [Shai Gilgeous-Alexander](http://www.espn.com/nba/player/_/id/4278073/shai-gilgeous-alexander) to get within 100-98 with about four minutes left. was huge tonight.” [Daishen Nix](http://www.espn.com/nba/player/_/id/4432176/daishen-nix) made a layup before Martin had a two-handed dunk seconds later to extend Houston’s lead to 109-100 with less than a minute to go. [Kenyon Martin Jr](http://www.espn.com/nba/player/_/id/4431828/kenyon-martin-jr)., to push the lead to seven about a minute later. [Eric Gordon](http://www.espn.com/nba/player/_/id/3431/eric-gordon) had a season-high 25 points and rookie [Tari Eason](http://www.espn.com/nba/player/_/id/4433192/tari-eason) added career-high 20 to lead the [Houston Rockets](http://www.espn.com/nba/team/_/name/hou/houston-rockets) to a 112-106 win over the [Oklahoma City Thunder](http://www.espn.com/nba/team/_/name/okc/oklahoma-city-thunder) on Wednesday night. He made the free throw to put Houston up 93-89. [Jalen Green](http://www.espn.com/nba/player/_/id/4437244/jalen-green) sat out with an injury.

The Houston Rockets limited the offensive production of Shai Gilgeous-Alexander en route to a 112-106 victory over the Thunder.