The Rockets will look to end an 11-game losing streak when they travel to San Antonio to...
Rockets point guard Kevin Porter Jr. will play his second game after missing 20 with an injury when Houston visits the Spurs.SAN ANTONIO — The Rockets will go from consecutive games against the top two teams in the Western Conference to consecutive games against the team that joins them in the bottom two.
For the second consecutive season, the Rockets will bring an 11-game losing streak into the 63rd game of their season. A year ago, they lost one more on the road and then returned home to break the losing streak. The weekend back-to-back with the Spurs begins in San Antonio before the teams complete the season series Sunday at Toyota Center.
Games against the Spurs could offer a path for the Rockets to end the longest active losing streak in the NBA, but Houston has lost each of the first two meetings, including a 19-point loss in their most recent meeting. The Rockets have allowed 121 points per game on 55.4 percent shooting in their meetings with the Spurs this season.Though the Rockets and Spurs are close on the bottom of the standings, separated by 2 ½ games, they are trending in different directions, at least this week.
The Rockets have not had much success against the Spurs’ defense, averaging just 107 points on 43.8 percent shooting, 26.5 percent from the 3-point line. But if that were not enough for the Rockets to view the Spurs’ defense as a greater challenge than the stats would indicate, San Antonio’s two games this week have shown signs of significant improvement.
The Jazz and Pacers combined to average just 96.5 points on 40.6 percent shooting, 31.6 percent from the 3-point line. Both were shorthanded, the Jazz playing without Jordan Clarkson and Collin Sexton and the Pacers without Tyrese Haliburton. But the Rockets know well that just playing a team without a key scorer is not enough to solve defensive issues.
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