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The Spurs, who had played an NBA record four-consecutive overtime games including the double-overtime win against the Rockets on Dec. Westbrook missed a turnaround jumper off the backboard. McLemore, who was 6 of 11 for 17 points, missed a 3-pointer. Tucker sank consecutive 3-pointers, Harden drew a charge but missed a 3. With the Rockets up three heading into the final two minutes after Ben McLemore and P.J. Early, they weren’t falling.”īond remains strong between Carlos Correa, Astros “I’m always shooting the basketball and being aggressive. “My confidence is never gone,” Harden said. But after that 2-of-15 start, Harden made 8 of 14 shots, including 4 of 7 3s. He still was not scoring quite at last week’s back-to-back 50-point-game pace. Harden ended the first half with a drive and a 3-pointer, buckets that seemed to have snapped him out of his funk as he got going in the second half. When Monday’s turnaround began, few seemed to notice. 22, 1977, when they rallied from 23 down to beat the Trail Blazers.
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The Rockets’ previous record for a comeback win came Jan. And it’s funny, they made mistakes and didn’t shoot quite as well when you get pressure on them, like anybody.” “The second half, weren’t any adjustments we just made a mental adjustment. They obviously hit everything, but we allowed them to hit everything. “They came out and slapped us pretty good. “We’ve been trending that way for about five or six games,” D’Antoni said. Though even when the Rockets cut that lead to 18 by halftime, they had not yet shown they were really still in it. With Harden getting off to a 2-of-15 start, it took Russell Westbrook’s most-prolific scoring half of the season (25 of his 31 points) to stay in the game. The Rockets seemed to know this, with their latest sluggish start, filled with the defensive lapses that have become a familiar recent problem helping Spurs torch them for 72 first-half points.Ī team that averages a league-low nine 3-pointers per game, the Spurs made 10 in the first half, with Bryn Forbes going 6 of 6. The way things were going, a loss Monday would have left a mark far more significant and difficult to remove. They might have even been good enough to remove the remainder of the pain still left from the loss in San Antonio, though D’Antoni said, “There is always a place in your heart for that one. “Maybe we’ll have that mentality where we start games this way,” D’Antoni said. They also hoped to take something from the game they could not when their protest of the previous game against the Spurs, a game they once led by 22, was quickly defeated. When they roared back, coach Mike D’Antoni got his challenge and won it, Harden’s dunk counted for two points and the Rockets rallied to the largest comeback win in franchise history, surging past the Spurs and holding on late for a 109-107 victory.