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The Houston Rockets entered Wednesday’s game against the Oklahoma City Thunder riding high on a six-game winning streak, including a 30-point win over the Thunder just two nights before. Unfortunately for the Rockets, their winning streak came to a screeching halt thanks to an ugly shooting performance in a 104-87 defeat in OKC.
Houston shot just 38.4% from the field and 12-of-46 from 3-point range in the loss. Rockets star Victor Oladipo had an especially rough game, making just eight of his 24 shot attempts while shooting 1-of-8 from beyond the arc. Oladipo missed his first seven 3-point attempts before making his last one.
Oladipo hasn’t exactly been shooting the ball all that well since joining the Rockets in the James Harden trade, but this was one of his worst showings of the season. The shooting guard is down to 39.5% overall and 31.1% from 3 since the trade.
Rockets without Christian Wood: 3-1
“Christian Wood is an emerging star, right now,” Silas said before Saturday’s game in New Orleans. “He’s playing at a really high level.”
In Saturday’s interview, Silas elaborated on Wood’s growth, and he says it goes beyond traditional numbers. For instance, Houston entered with one of the NBA’s top-rated defenses over its last eight games, and Silas says Wood has improved significantly there. His comments:
He’s grown a lot since training camp. He’s found where he can be successful on the floor, where it’s at the top of the floor, or he’s finding some areas in the paint where he can shoot his little floater. He has such a soft touch. We’re going to expand that to getting him to the corners, some, and making the decisions harder for his man, and whether he’s going to help. Are they going to help on our drives, or stay home on our shooters? He’s one of those shooters.
But the biggest jump for him, I would say, is on the defensive end. We’ve gotten a little more aggressive with our coverages when he’s in, and he’s done a really good job. The last couple games that he’s played in, he’s done a good job with his pick-and-roll defense on the ball, and then recovering back to his man, or helping somebody else. I would say the biggest jump that he’s made so far, and you don’t really see it in the points and the rebounds, but it’s on the defensive end.
