This dampens what was the kind of scoring night one hopes to see from Jalen Green, who scored 29pts in 28 minutes. Other players refused to comment on the exchange, with JaeSean Tate (paraphrasing) saying that teams and families sometimes have disputes and it’s best to keep those disputes and heated words private. The result of this was that Christian Wood refused to enter the game in the second half, and Kevin Porter Jr departed the arena.īoth of these events are unfortunate at best, and harbingers of the end of a Rockets career at worst. The scene was described by Sham Charania as a “heated exchange” between coaches and some players. Stephen Silas and Will Weaver couldn’t have been happy either. Jeff Hornacek, who has mostly appeared philosophical about this season in his interview snippets appeared angry at the Rockets effort. John Lucas, famous for tough love that by all accounts actually encompasses both words, (instead of just being an asshole, as is the customary practice of the phrase) turned “the hair dryer” on the Rockets at the half, along with the other coaches.
No one watching the game as a Rockets fan could be pleased with that effort, and it turns out the Rockets coaching staff wasn’t pleased either. This is four points below the NBA record 51pt quarter posted by a near-peak Warriors team against, slightly ironically, Denver. Now, Campazzo is a wonderful passer, and a first class irritant on the court, but possibly not even Mama Campazzo would peg him as the leader and inspiration of a 47pt NBA quarter. When Wood entered the game, his eight minutes were really the harbinger of disaster, as the Rockets gave up an astounding 47 points to a Denver Nuggets team lead by noted All NBA player Facundo Campazzo. The fuse for the devastating dynamite tonight was Christian Wood. What’s worse, Theis and the Rockets started the game well, with energy, and managed to get an 11 point lead on Denver, which they would relinquish and then some, in the second. In any event, Wood was benched to start the game. Silas in his press conference detailed Wood’s benching for “violating a team rule”, but declined to elaborate, the COVID test information is from other sources. We’ve gotten our answers, and as Rockets fans, they aren’t the one’s we’d like.Ĭhristian Wood wasn’t in the game to start reportedly because he missed a COVID testing window. The Rockets looked absolutely awful in 2nd quarter, and considerably better in the 2nd half, although the second half was largely garbage time. Why didn’t Kevin Porter Jr return? Was it an injury? Why didn’t Christian Wood start? Where was he after a terrible eight minutes in the second quarter? As Jeremy Brener details here it turns out there were reasons for some mysteries of tonight’s game. Something came up towards the end of this game, and I couldn’t get on the recap right away. Sometimes life intervenes in an interesting way.