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| Team | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | Final |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Rockets | 31 | 31 | 22 | 40 | 124 |
 Trail Blazers | 37 | 25 | 36 | 19 | 117 |
HOUTeam statsPOR| Team | FG | 3PT | FT | REB | AST | TO |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HOU | 40-7553.3% | 10-2540.0% | 34-4281.0% | 35 | 14 | 12 |
| POR | 45-8851.1% | 18-4143.9% | 9-1275.0% | 33 | 19 | 15 |
Point at or clickTap a player to see his shots, then his whole game from there. ClickTap a number under REB, AST, STL, BLK, TO or PF to see those plays.
Houston Rockets124| 37 | 48 | 16-29 | 4-7 | 12-14 | 0 | +9 | +18.3 | |||||||
| 35 | 26 | 8-14 | 1-4 | 9-10 | 0 | 0 | +14 | +8.1 | ||||||
| 34 | 13 | 4-7 | 3-4 | 0 | 0 | 2-2 | 0 | +19 | +4.5 | |||||
| 22 | 11 | 4-5 | 0-0 | 3-6 | 0 | −2 | +4.4 | |||||||
| 17 | 2 | 1-4 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | −7 | −6.8 | |||||
| Bench | ||||||||||||||
| 31 | 8 | 3-4 | 1-2 | 0 | 1-2 | 0 | 0 | +14 | −0.9 | |||||
| 30 | 12 | 2-6 | 1-5 | 7-8 | 0 | +3 | −1.8 | |||||||
| 24 | 0 | 0-2 | 0-1 | 0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | −5.0 | ||||||
| 10 | 4 | 2-4 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | −15 | −1.1 | ||||
| Team | 124 | 40-7553.3% | 10-2540.0% | 35 | 14 | 12 | 17 | 34-4281.0% | 7 | 13 | 2 | |||
Bench 24 points on 7 for 16 shooting
Did not play: Tarik Black, Bobby Brown and Demetrius Jackson (coach’s decision).
Portland Trail Blazers117| 39 | 28 | 11-21 | 2-8 | 4-5 | 0 | 0 | −16 | −1.3 | ||||||
| 38 | 35 | 11-23 | 9-16, NBA season high (the league's best before, 8). Season high (his best before, 6) | 4-4 | 0 | 0 | −2 | +6.9 | ||||||
| 32 | 15 | 5-10 | 5-8 | 0 | 0-0 | 0 | −12 | +3.0 | ||||||
| 27 | 4 | 2-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | −8 | −5.5 | ||||||
| 20 | 12 | 5-6 | 1-1 | 1-1 | 0 | 0 | +1 | +3.3 | ||||||
| Bench | ||||||||||||||
| 25 | 8 | 4-10 | 0-5 | 0 | 0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | −6 | −6.4 | |||
| 19 | 5 | 2-5 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 0 | +6 | −0.4 | |||||||
| 15 | 8 | 4-4 | 0-0 | 0 | 0-2 | +11 | +5.4 | |||||||
| 15 | 0 | 0-3 | 0-1 | 0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | −4 | −7.3 | ||||
| 12 | 2 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | −5 | +0.1 | ||
| Team | 117 | 45-8851.1% | 18-4143.9% | 33 | 19 | 15 | 28 | 9-1275.0% | 7 | 4 | 5 | |||
Bench 23 points on 11 for 23 shooting
Did not play: Caleb Swanigan and Shabazz Napier (coach’s decision).
Rockets124Trail Blazers117ClickTap a team’s number to see the plays behind it.
PS, Performance Score: points above what an average player adds in the same minutes. The game’s highs are in blue, hot shooting in gold, cold in gray. ClickTap a column’s heading to sort by it.
James Harden scored 48 points (7 during a 10-0 run in the second quarter), and the Houston Rockets beat the Portland Trail Blazers 124-117 for their ninth straight win.
Trevor Ariza’s 3-pointer put the Rockets ahead for good with 3:40 left in the fourth quarter.
The Trail Blazers got within 114-113 on CJ McCollum’s 15-foot pull-up jumper with 2:06 to play, but Harden answered with a three-point play, and the Trail Blazers got no closer than 117-115.
Harden’s free throw with 30.1 seconds left made it 120-115 and put it away.
During clutch time, the Rockets outscored the Trail Blazers 19-9. Harden scored 8 of the Rockets’ 19 on 3 for 3 shooting and 2 for 3 at the line. In the fourth quarter, Chris Paul had 2 steals, one of them leading to Ariza’s 3-pointer that put the Rockets ahead 110-109, and the Rockets scored 3 points off them.
Paul had 26 points and 7 assists. Harden scored 15 of his 48 points in the fourth quarter.
For the Trail Blazers, Damian Lillard had 35 points, 6 assists and 9 3-pointers, and McCollum added 28 points.
The Rockets went 34 for 42 at the line to the Trail Blazers’ 9 for 12 and outscored them 54-36 in the paint.
Houston RocketsPortland Trail BlazersPS, Performance Score: points above what an average player adds in the same minutes.
The five plays that moved the chance to win most, in order.
Each play from the side of the team that made it: its chance to win before and after, and the change in percentage points. On the court, each shot is the shooter’s face (gray when he missed), bigger the more it moved the chance. The Rockets’ chance bottomed out at 5% (4th quarter, 8:52 left). Chances from the site’s game model (the per-play numbers the Clutch and Performances tabs use aren’t built for this game).
90 points from the field on 75 shots: 5.3 more than the league scores from the same zones.
Point at a shooter to see his shots light up; click for his shots alone.
| Zone | FG | % | League |
|---|---|---|---|
| At the rim | 23-38 | 60.5% | 63% |
| In the paint | 4-8 | 50.0% | 40% |
| Mid-range | 3-4 | 75.0% | 40% |
| Corner 3 | 2-4 | 50.0% | 39% |
| Above-the-break 3 | 8-21 | 38.1% | 36% |
| Guarded by | Poss | Pts | FG | vs usual |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Evan Turner | 40 | 12 | 6-12 | −2 |
| Pat Connaughton | 10 | 2 | 1-3 | −1 |
| Damian Lillard | 6 | 8 | 3-4 | +6 |
| Al-Farouq Aminu | 5 | 5 | 2-2 | +3 |
| Everyone else | 14 | 17 | 8-14 | +12 |
The tracking credits him with 44 points on 74 possessions. He usually scores about 26 on that many.
| Guarded by | Poss | Pts | FG | vs usual |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CJ McCollum | 21 | 0 | 0-0 | −4 |
| Pat Connaughton | 16 | 6 | 3-3 | +3 |
| Damian Lillard | 13 | 2 | 1-3 | 0 |
| Al-Farouq Aminu | 3 | 0 | 0-1 | −1 |
| Everyone else | 17 | 9 | 4-7 | +6 |
The tracking credits him with 17 points on 70 possessions. He usually scores about 13 on that many.
| Guarded by | Poss | Pts | FG | vs usual |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Damian Lillard | 31 | 0 | 0-0 | −5 |
| CJ McCollum | 15 | 3 | 1-2 | +1 |
| Al-Farouq Aminu | 5 | 0 | 0-0 | −1 |
| Jake Layman | 4 | 0 | 0-0 | −1 |
| Everyone else | 12 | 10 | 4-6 | +8 |
The tracking credits him with 13 points on 67 possessions. He usually scores about 10 on that many.
What the players each one guarded scored, against what they usually score on as many possessions.
Possessions, and parts of possessions when defenders switched, from the NBA’s matchup tracking. The line under a defender’s name: his share of the scorer’s possessions. Usual: what the scorer averaged a possession against every defender in the regular season, eased toward the league’s rate when he has few possessions.
POR win probability — AI model powered by play-by-play data
HOU
50/50
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Highest Leverage Moments
Harden 25' 3PT Step Back Jump Shot (40 PTS)
Q4 6:07
19.2%
77→58
Lillard 27' 3PT Pullup Jump Shot (33 PTS)
Q4 4:36
19.1%
58→77
Tucker 1' Cutting Layup Shot (8 PTS) (Paul 7 AST)
Q4 2:17
19.0%
46→27
Tucker 1' Cutting Layup Shot (6 PTS) (Paul 6 AST)
Q4 3:12
16.5%
46→29
Vonleh 17' Jump Shot (2 PTS) (Aminu 2 AST)
Q4 2:46
16.5%
29→46
