Rockets Topple Jazz, Martin Drops 48 in Kings OT Win
Houston 113, Utah 96
After only leading by 1 going into the fourth quarter, the Houston Rockets caught fire.
Led by some impressive shooting out of rookie Chase Budinger, the Rockets outscored the Jazz 24-6 to start the 4th. Budinger finished with 17 points on 7-11 shooting.
The Jazz suffered due to poor three point shooting and 19 turnovers, including 5 from Mehmet Okur. Deron Williams had 18 points and 8 assists in defeat.
Stat #1 of the Night: Feels like yesterday…Rockets did something on Monday night they haven’t done in 2 years: Win on the road @ Utah.
Stat #2 of the Night: Sharing is caring…Rockets have 8 players in double digits (Brooks 19, Budinger 17, Ariza 15, Scola 14, Battier 13, Hayes 12, Landry 10, Lowry 10). I can’t remember a game where more than 8 players had double digit scoring…
Stat #3 of the Night: Call this stat overrated, but this is impressive. The Rockets outscored the Jazz by 36 points when Shane Battier was on the floor. Yikes.
Sacramento 127, Memphis 116 (OT)
The Kevin Martin show is now airing. It was almost an hour long special.
In 52 minutes of play, Martin scored 48 points to lead Sacramento to their first win of the season. Martin shot 14-27 from the floor, including a freakish 70 percent from 3 point range. Not a bad way to open the season at the sold out ARCO arena.
However, the unsung hero of the night was Beno Udrih, whose game tying layup in the final seconds forced overtime for the Kings. From there, the Kings took over overtime.
Rudy Gay, Zach Randolph, and Marc Gasol all chipped in double-doubles for the Grizzlies, who fell to 1-2 after committing 21 turnovers.
Stat of the night: Kings of the Bench – Sacramento’s bench totaled 61 points in the contest. After Kevin Martin’s 48, the King’s starting lineup scored a combined 12 points.
-Duts
I like this Rockets team. Ariza has been great so far.
They play so much better and gel better without Tmac.
I am afraid once he comes back it will be back to mediocrity.
He handles the ball far too much and can’t play D.
I watched the Kings game. Hawes was huge too and Omri Casspi is a nice find.
Kevin Martin reminds me of a better version of Kerry Kittles.
Same type of build. Scares me that he is gonna get hurt and have a shortened career ala Kerry Kittles or as Bill Raftery called him Curry Kittles.
Like the site.
Keep up the good work.
Thanks for checkin’ out the site. You bring up a great comparison in Kittles and Martin that never crossed my mind and it’s true. Martin is a 3 year player and has already missed his share of games.
I agree the Rockets are nice and T-Mac may screw things up but either way I don’t see them as a playoff team (you never know though) because Landry and Hayes just aren’t cutting it for me. They are solid backups but I don’t think they can put a team over the top…YET. Maybe another 2-3 years (for Landry at least).
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