Another game, another loss, and the Rockets are off to an extremely bad 0-3 start in the season. To make matters worse, this was our home opener and the Nuggets team was very beatable.
Our defense finally stepped up to the challenge, holding the Nuggets to just 38 percent from the field but our poor three-point shooting coupled with our recurring problems with turnovers and second-chance points once again meant that the Rockets came up short against a Western Conference rival.
As witnessed in Game 1, the Houston backcourt is pretty explosive and we will be extremely reliant on them to score points, especially with Yao's limited minutes. What we saw today is what happens when our backcourt is having a bad shooting night—apart from a valiant effort from Luis Scola, no one really got going.
Aaron Brooks and Kevin Martin combined for 10 of 27 shooting and hit only two shots from downtown in 11 attempts. The rest of the team wasn't that good from three-point range, either, with the Rockets shooting an abysmal 16 percent from downtown.
The Nuggets, though, shooting a low percentage from the field, ended up outscoring us ...
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