Rockets beat Jazz

Rockets in 3 straight games have yet to play a full 48 minutes and so far that has not really mattered, tonight the Rockets defeat the Jazz 104 to 93. Rockets were blown out in the first half and where outscored 40 to 56 but in heckle and jackal style the Rockets outscored the Jazz 64 to 37.

In the first half the Jazz’s combo of Gordon Hayward, Enes Kanter and Richard Jefferson powered them to the lead with 36 points between the three. The Rockets if not for Chandler Parsons 17 points in the 1^st half would have been ran out the building.

When the teams came back to the court in the 2^nd half the Rockets outscored the Jazz 15 to 2 to pull the Rockets within 3 after trailing for so long. The Jazz seemed to crumple as the Rockets drew nearer, the Jazz loss and go 0-3 for the 1^st time since the late 70’s the Rockets start the season of 3-0 and will play the Clippers on Monday. 

Rockets vs Jazz preview

The Rockets head to Utah to take on the Jazz, last season the Rockets went in 4 tries with the Jazz the Rockets took 3 of 4 but lost the very 1st match up with the Jazz, tonight is the very 1st match up of the 2013-2014 season. The difference is this Jazz team is no where near the same Jazz team as it was last season. The Rockets and the Jazz will both go in to this game with changes from last years team but the Jazz have 4 new starters, Derrick Favors is the only carry over from last seasons team.


Rockets come in to the game following 2 wins at home over the Bobcats and the Mavericks. Rockets have gotta big contributions from All Stars James Harden and Dwight Howard. Harden in 1st 2 games has 55 points and Howard has 42 rebounds. The team has gotten good help off the bench both Francisco Garcia in the 1st night and Omri Casspi in the 2nd game. Rockets will still be with Patrick Beverley who was injured opening night Jeremy Lin will start with Aaron Brooks coming in the spell him.


Jazz opened at home with a loss to the Thunder 98 to 101 then at traveled and lost to the Suns 84 to 87, came with a 3 pointer of being 2-0 instead of 0-2. Gordon Hayward has filled up the stat sheet of late and is 5 for 5 on 3's this season and Enes Kanter has 2 double doubles in the 1st 2 games. Leading the Jazz in scoring is Alec Burks and he is doing his damage of the bench.