{"id":13213,"date":"2022-01-26T01:26:56","date_gmt":"2022-01-26T01:26:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/2022\/01\/26\/rockets-notes-as-team-prepares-to-face-spurs-nba-blog\/"},"modified":"2022-01-26T01:26:56","modified_gmt":"2022-01-26T01:26:56","slug":"rockets-notes-as-team-prepares-to-face-spurs-nba-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/rockets-notes-as-team-prepares-to-face-spurs-nba-blog\/","title":{"rendered":"Rockets notes as team prepares to face Spurs \u2013 NBA Blog"},"content":{"rendered":"


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The Rockets have held opponents to 34.0% shooting from 3-point range over the past 11 games after the opposition shot 39.9% the 12 games prior\u2026 Houston ranks 14th in 3-point defense this season (opponents: 34.6%) after finishing 27th in 2020-21 (opponents: 38.2%).<\/p>\n

Houston has scored 20+ points off turnovers twice over the past four games, including a season-high 29 at Golden State on 1\/21, after not having more than 16 in any of the eight games prior.<\/p>\n

Christian Wood has hit 2+ 3-pointers in a career-high tying five straight games and is averaging 3.0 3FGM on 51.7% shooting over that span\u2026 he is tied for the third-most 3FGM (77) of any player listed 6\u201910\u201d or taller this season.<\/p>\n

Garrison Mathews is averaging 14.4 points while shooting 11-of-20 from 3-point range over the past three games after having a total of 5 points while shooting 1-of-11 from behind-the-arc the three games prior\u2026 Houston is 9-5 when he scores at least 13 points this season.<\/p>\n

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The Rockets have held opponents to 34.0% shooting from 3-point range over the past 11 games after the opposition shot 39.9% the 12 games prior\u2026 Houston ranks 14th in 3-point defense this season (opponents: 34.6%) after finishing 27th in 2020-21 (opponents: 38.2%). Houston has scored 20+ points off turnovers twice over the past four games,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[176],"tags":[1387,2359,332,267],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13213"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13213"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13214,"href":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13213\/revisions\/13214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}