How Alperen Sengun & The Houston Rockets Defense CLAMPED Giannis Antetokounmpo’s Milwaukee Bucks
How Alperen Sengun & The Houston Rockets Defense CLAMPED Giannis Antetokounmpo’s Milwaukee Bucks
Can the Houston Rockets defense be enough to overcome their other shortcomings? The Rockets stunned the Milwaukee Bucks with a defensive masterclass, holding them to just 97 points.
Host Jackson Gatlin (@JTGatlin) discusses the defensive strategies against both Giannis Antetokounmpo and Damian Lillard as well as holding the Bucks SCORELESS for nearly six minutes to start the fourth quarter, clutch moments late from Jalen Green and Alperen Sengun, overcoming self-inflicted turnovers and poor offensive execution in crunch time, Jabari Smith Jr. and Cam Whitmore’s roles in the Rockets rotation and more.
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32 Comments
GO ROCKETS! 🚀
Solid defense. Clutch city! Go Rockets! 💪
Last position is on Jabari, he should be ready, Alpi is faking the oppenents not teammates. Alpi did excellent job through the game including the last position. He even did perimeter moving defence preventing 3 pt shots which is unbelievable. Kudos Alpi.
Jalen lost His Joy while playing.and Swagg gone too.just Like. jimmy Butler.He might Need A New Teammates to Make Him feel Better.
Jalen is the most clutch free throw shooter of Houston in crucial seconds he made 2 /2 against warrior and now 2/2 again
SMH Jalen lost his swag ,and he was clutch in the end . He’s playing out his position. SMH
This is the 3th time Buck did under 100 in last 50 games. the other 2 games were against OKC.
Go Rockets!
Go Rockets!!
Great show and Go Rockets!!
One of the Best defensive performance so far from Alpi
I hope they could get max cheisti of the mavs the least. He is a playmaker and he can score
Alpi fight 🎉I love it
At some point this team got to stop making dumb mistakes geese they don’t ever make it easy
PLEASE ask IME about the lack of movement off ball in his offense and getting Jalen the ball off some actions instead of just pick n roll all the time. Mark Jackson Warriors vs Steve Kerr Warriors depicts how significantly this change in offense can impact a team
I'm a Rockets fan for 27 years now and…what Amen did was one of the most dirtiest moves I've seen in the NBA. You don't grab and yank someone's head and neck like that, he could've ended Giannis's career with a little more unluck.
Amen is not a dirty player, so hopefully this is a one time thing… and hopefully someone from the Houston Rockets are gonna reprimand him for this, at least verbally
As for the game itself, it was a good win, much needed win… however we are still in a slump of sorts… we are nowhere near the form we had in that amazing stretch vs Cavs x2, Celtics ans Hawks.
And hopefully casuals will finally stop crying about trading Fred and how he is unnecessary to this team. The worst slump of the season came when he went out.
Jalen is more clutch than we give credit for
Go Rockets!
Go HOUnds!
Y’all little boyed us on the glass good night and congrats 🎈
But the Rockets did all they could to give the game away. examples T/Os, Sengun senseless late T/O, Brooks unable to inbound the ball even when Jabari was open, Tari Eason, taller & bigger than Damian Lillard but unable to box him out on that last jump ball which would’ve resulted in O/T had Dame made the shot.
Great win, lets finish the season strong Go Rockets !!🚀🚀💪
This team is painful to watch. Happy for the win but the mistakes from pros.
Rockets better team than Bucks…Alpi, Amen, Jalen play perfectly…
They are playing well but the problem is alpi’s assists the players but they cant get the 3 pts..Need a punisher from 3 pt line weak 3 pters!! They need better 3 pointers!!
This is what growing pains and growing up looks like
We could have definitely use Kelly Olynyk this trade deadline to space the floor he us much better upgrade over landale plus a former rocket !! This grind grit defense is not sustainable without tiring the guys out.
I truly hope Luka dont resign with Laker an come back to Texas if we somehow manage to get him we would have Dallas fans base as well on top of having a superstar!!
The team of the future Jackson is Amen, Jalen, Tari, Jabari, and Sengun. If I’m being honest I wish Brooks was the one who was benched instead of Jabari
Those 3-pointers by Green looked so good, but dang… I just got back into basketball a few months ago & don't think I've seen so many turnovers in one game. I was gritting my teeth that 4th quarter just in the highlights… looked sloppy. Hope they get cleaned up before the Spurs game.
Can’t wait to get Fred back… the low IQ plays and unforced turnovers are driving me crazy.