Throwing kill! Rockets three consecutive victories! The Big Three combined to score 44+21+12

At 8:00 a.m. on October 15th, the Houston Rockets challenged the New Orleans Pelicans away in the NBA preseason game. The two teams currently have the same preseason record of 2 wins and 0 losses! In the Rockets' 140-127 victory over the Jazz, Durant, who made his Rockets career debut, scored 20 points, 2 rebounds, 1 assist and 1 steal on 7-for-10 shooting. Durant + Shen Jing + Amen combined to score 52+14+20+7. The three giants combined for the first time to show their power! Let's wait and see what kind of performance the Rockets' three giants will perform in this game!

The Rockets' starting five: Durant + Amen + Smith + Shen Jing + Adams

The Pelicans' starting five: Poole + Zion + Missy + Murphy + Jones

At the beginning of the game, the Rockets turned away and got off to a good 12-3 start! Missy scored with a hook, Murphy made a three-pointer, Amen and Smith scored four consecutive free throws, Poole scored with a throw, Murphy succeeded, Smith hit a two-pointer, Jones responded with a jumper, Ethan made a European step layup, Zion dunked under the basket, Okogie dunked to stop the Pelicans! Zion scored four points in a row, Sadiq Bey dunked, and Hawkins counterattacked and dunked. At the end of the first quarter, the Rockets trailed the Pelicans by 2 points, 26-28.

At the beginning of the second quarter, the Rockets' 12-2 attack wave stopped the Pelicans! Poole stopped the bleeding with a three-pointer, Missy dunked hard, Durant opened the scoring with a mid-range shot, and Alvarado scored four points in a row to stop the Rockets! Poole made two free throws, and then a conflict broke out on the court. Amen and Alvarado hugged each other and threw each other. Amen was called a first-level foul and Alvarado was called a technical foul! Durant 2+1, Amen 2+1 continued, Missy, Jones, Murphy scored six points in a row to stop the bleeding, Durant scored two points independently, Murphy responded with a throw, Shen Jing succeeded in a strong attack, Poole blocked Durant's three-pointer, and Murphy tied the score with a layup! Amen made two free throws, Matkovic scored a three-pointer, and Durant scored at the buzzer. At the end of the first half, the Rockets overtook the Pelicans by 1 point 60-59.

Change sides and fight again, the Rockets 10-2 attack wave stopped the Pelicans! Smith scored five points in a row with three-pointers and free throws, Missy stopped the bleeding with dunks, Zion counterattacked with one-stop dunks, Shen Jing and Amen scored four consecutive free throws, Poole responded with 2+1, Missy dunked hard, Shepard made two free throws, Sadiq Bey 2+1, Ethan pulled the bar in, Durant easily hit two points with a jumper, Ethan stole and counterattacked for a layup, Durant stopped the Pelicans with 2+1! Diggins stopped the bleeding with a layup, Sheppard made a three-pointer to reduce the dimension, Hawkins made three free throws, Sheppard scored a layup, Sadiq Bey beat Yang with a three-pointer, Ethan scored five points in a row with free throws and shots, and the point difference was widened to 17 points! Zion stopped the bleeding with 2+1, and Okogie missed a tip-in at the buzzer. After three quarters, the Rockets led the Pelicans 102-88 by 14 points.

In the fourth quarter, Capela scored the first two points with a tip-in, Saddiq Bey scored a layup, Holiday made a three-pointer, Alvarado made two free throws, Hawkins and Shepard soared for three-pointers, Okogie made a reverse layup, Peavy dunked an alley-oop, Diggins made a three-pointer, Holiday succeeded, and Okogie dunked to stop the Pelicans! McGoverns dunked, Davidson scored with a throw, and the two sides entered a tug-of-war! Okogie made a flying layup, Fells responded with a jumper, Davidson made one of two free throws, Fells forced a three-point extension, McGoverns made two free throws to tie the score, and Holiday's throw in the last 1.8 seconds was a sure win! Fiers missed a long-range three-pointer. At the end of the game, the Rockets narrowly defeated the Pelicans 130-128 and won three consecutive preseason games.

In this campaign, the big three of Durant + Amen + Shen Jing continued to deliver stable performances. The three of them combined to score 44+21+12, becoming the Rockets' biggest guarantee of winning! Jabari Smith exploded with 26+5+1+1+1, filling the data column and becoming the Rockets' scoring leader. In addition, Ethan and Shepard also performed eye-catchingly! Obviously, the chemistry of the Rockets team is gratifying, and as they get better, they are bound to make waves in the Wild West in the new season! From the appearance of the Pelicans, the two core players Zion and Poole both showed their hips. If it weren't for the crazy counterattack by a group of substitutes in the second half of the fourth quarter, they might have suffered a huge defeat.

Congratulations to the Rockets for winning three consecutive preseason games!

Full game statistics: Rockets Amen made 5 of 8, 2 of 3 three-pointers, 9 of 9 free throws and scored 21 points, 5 rebounds and 3 assists, Durant 15 points, 4 rebounds and 2 assists, Smith 26 points, 5 rebounds, 1 assist, 1 steal and 1 block, Shen Jing 8 points, 12 rebounds, 7 assists, 2 steals and 1 block, Ethan 20 points, Shepard 13 points, 3 rebounds, 2 assists, 1 steal and 1 block. Pelican Zion had 13 points, 3 rebounds, 4 assists and 4 steals, with a plus-minus of -22! Poole made 3 of 10, 10 points, 2 rebounds and 3 assists, with a plus-minus of -11! Jones had 10 points and Murphy had 11 points and 4 rebounds.