Houston Rockets vs New Orleans Pelicans Full Game 2nd-Qtr Oct 14, 2025 Preseason Today

Houston Rockets vs New Orleans Pelicans Full Game 2nd-Qtr Oct 14, 2025 Preseason Today

game. Network sideline reporter Andrew Lopez. Lopes, how about the ending of the first? All all Zion on both ends. You’d love to see him be active on that defensive end. Well, Jose Alvarado checks in for the first time in this ball game and promptly throws it away. That’s a turnover number five for New Orleans. Three ball read. Shepard knocks it down. So, you turn it over and they convert. What I’ve been watching down here is the fact that And we turn it over again. See, they’ll get another easy bucket. This time he Am I going to have to kick you off? I was going to I didn’t think I was going to be able to I I thought I could make a quarter. This is un I might not make two minutes. You might not. Murphy for three left wing. That’s no good. Off the front iron. Deflected rebound though to Makovich. His followup gets blocked by Jabari Smith Jr. It’s 3128 Houston. If Jabari Smith makes this three, which he did not, you were uh you were in trouble. I was just going to take the headset off. I was just going to go back to being quiet. All right, you got Jeremiah Fears, Carlo Makovich, Trey Murphy, Zion Williamson. Fears knocks down a mid-range left of the lane from about 10 ft. Love to see him having that confidence in that shot, especially after the way he shot in Australia. So Fears now with four points on his 19th birthday. Smith got a crosscourt pass from Reed Shepard and he’s just wide open and knocks it down. Jabari Smith Jr. Now with 14 points in this ball game, Rockets up 3430. Working on some different zone defenses. Got to get to where the guys are. Murphy touch pass to Alvarado. Left corner three. Back iron. No good. Tipped by Shenun. Taken by Reed Shepard who’s taken on four defenders. Stop. Pop three long. And the rebound comes out to Trey Murphy. That was a tough rebound for Carlo to get on the other end because he was being held by both Steven Adams and Alfie Shangu. Fears for three left wing. Nope. Again, we are online with these three ball attempts. They’re just not falling. New Orleans now two of 12 from beyond the arc. Felt like four or five of them just rimed up. Smith a three short from the right corner and the rebound Alvarado. Again, this is fast-paced. It’s exactly what Willie Green wants. Zion takes on Shenon. Shot blocked by Steve Steven Adams at the rim. They’ll go back the other way. Isa will get an easy layup after a Euro step. That was a good try by Alvarado to try and break that up knowing it was it was threeon-one. He didn’t have much of a chance there. He out rebounded 1815 right now by Houston. Alvarado for three. Another miss. Weak side rebound. Shenun. Pels are now two of 13 from beyond the arc. Going to let Shenon get all the way to the free throw line. That’s a layup for him. And Willie Green says enough is enough. Take a timeout. Andrew Lopez is doing it again. You had a lead right up until Lopez put the headset on. It’s 3830. Hugh. Ball moving right to left. Alvarado to Bay in the paint. Get it to Pool. Fly by Smith. Take a three. Splash for Jordan Pool. I need it desperately. So the Pels. So Pool’s got eight points. Three of four from the floor, two of three from distance at 3833. 850 to go first quarter. Shenon backing down. Mei in the paint. Nearly walked. Floated up to Jabari Smith Jr. right elbow back to the bucket up top. Shenon drives to the dotted line. Kick it out long. E straightaway three around and out. There’s Steven Adams. Puts it up. No. Rebound by or blocked by me. We’re going to have a tie up. Steven Adams is just an absolute monster. He’s got four offensive rebounds in this game. By the way, Adams a year ago finished the year with more offensive rebounds than defense. Hard that is to do. Absolute monster down there. And it’s very interesting what the Rockets are doing right now on offense. They don’t have Fred Van Fleet because of the injury that he suffered and they’re just kind of going point guard by committee. We’ve seen Jabari Smith initiate offense. We’ve seen Alfie Shenon initiate offense. Obviously, they have Reed Shepard in the game right now. He can do it as well. But they’re trying a lot of different things, including Amen Thompson. Well, we talked about it when we did the pregame with Willie Green. That was the stat that you have to watch tonight. Yeah, they are such a prolific rebounding team of the Rockets. And I mean, just honestly, you just you’re not as big as they are. So you got to do it with heart. And E on Q drives right by P on the right baseline. Jose out there. They’re going to try to hunt those matchups. E’s free throw is no good. So just to finish the story. So game, that was game number three. Yes. In San Francisco. First of two against the Warriors. And we get out to a 3515 lead in the second quarter. And uh then I joined the broadcast and then 3515 became a Warriors lead. And throw on top of that, Herb Jones got hurt as Trey Murphy airballs one from about 30 ft. Herb Jones got hurt, CJ McCullum got hurt and Lopez was asked to leave. Yeah, I was supposed to be there the entire second quarter and I think I got kicked out around the 4-minute mark. I’m surprised you last I mean when a 20point lead disappears that quickly. All right, 3933 Houston back to action here. 805 to go in the second. Hounded was Jabari Smith by Trey Murphy and then Trey did not give in at all. Smith got it back and then threw an elbow. That is the physicalness that we have been talking about. That’s the physicality that Willie Green. It’s good to see the guys responding to especially how the NBA has changed over the last year and a half and calling these plays. All right, Alvarado gets a pick from Eve Me. He drives to the rack, floats it up for Eve and a two head flush. Great job by Alvarado to find Eve. Eve knowing where to be. Great float. Great job to get there with the alley. 3935 Rockets. Ni with four points. Shepard, Adams, Durant, Thompson, and Smith on the floor for the Rockets. Shepard’s three left at the top. No good. Rebound. Eve Mey. Really, really good job in Australia in that department. Bay spins away from Reed Shepard, gets to the paint, misses the easy layup and it’s taken away by Reed Shepard. Shepard Chesset Durant pops a 10-footer right of the lane and he got the roll. That’s what he wants to get. Him and Jabari Smith want to live in that mid-range and he got there especially on the fast break. Got to get back defensively here. The Bells of course thought that bucket was going to go in. P got a feed from Ni. Pops a three that short. Ni tapped the rebound right to Smith. Rockets on the move again. Smith will go coast to coast and is fouled by Trey Murphy. They get into the front court so quickly. If you’re not back in transition, they’re getting a layup or they’re going to the free throw line. Everybody on the team five of nine from the floor. Two threes, four rebounds, couple of assists, and a block. Of course, I’ll take five of nine after he started four or five, though. His biggest shot early in his career was against the Pels. what I called the uh St. Patrick’s Day meltdown. Was that on the radio for that, too? You can’t blame that one. No. No. First free throw is good. Smith hit a bucket with two seconds left in the ball game to win that game for the Rockets. We played them two nights later in Houston and won that game. Rockets were not very good that year and that could have used that win in that 49 win season. Would have been nice. made them both 4335 Alvarado dotted line. There’s the floater and in Jose has nearly perfected that. It’s going to be there. I remember a couple of couple of summers ago he went to San Antonio with Tony Parker, the king of that to learn how to do it better and they worked out at Tony’s house for I think about two or three days just working on that move. Jose now in his fifth year out of Georgia Tech as Amed Thompson gets to the lane and he scoots one up off the top of the box and in and then Jose says get out of my way I’m going coast to coast and Eay Adulka is not pleased with that Thompson up front Shenon Bar Smith Jr. and Kevin Durant. Oh boy, it looked like Thompson carried the ball in the back court. They didn’t call it. They’ll find Smith in the left corner. His three ball is in and out. No good. Rebound Bay. Deep Bay has been playing very physical. Exactly what Willie Green wants to see. His second defensive board. Jordan P just across the timeline. Sideline right goes behind the back. Pops one up. Right hand floater. No from T, but he’ll go to the line. That’s usually a good thing. Walking to the plane last night. Poor Milwaukee. feel so sorry for him. Free throw good. Jordan Pool 88% from the free throw line. He is been an outstanding free this there’s three other forwards on the floor. I’m pretty sure that hasn’t happened many times in Kevin Durant’s career when he’s been the starting shooting guard. The rebounding differential right now is just minus three for the Pel. So not too bad. Smith for three. Front iron no good. Loose ball foul. We got to fight. Jos Alvarado Amed Thompson. Thompson just threw a right hand as Thompson and Alvarado got tangled up and now quickly they are separated but I saw a P. There you have it. I can do it too. Lopez, I can do it too. Look at you. Come on, baby. All right. Now Jordan Pool. I think Jose was just trying to walk a far as far away from the Yes. Well, now Jose is going to shoot it. Oh, all right. Jose, I guess he deserves it. He was in the freus. Rattles in. We’re going to get two here because of the flavor. Correct. Got them both. She actually ended up plus two out of all that. And because of the loose ball foul, it was going to be Get it to Jose. Left of the center circle to her. Back to Alvarado. Alvarado pick and roll with Mi. Jose drives in reverse. Lefty layup. Didn’t get the roll. That’s four or five times now Jose’s has been able to get get a paint touch here in this second quarter. Shen good the rebound. Now he’s got it in the lane and you can put that away. Oh, he missed the hook. Follow-up shot no good by Thompson. Rebound Misu throws it off of Thompson’s foot. Out of bounds. Heads up play by Eve. Oh, they’re going to reverse it. It he it hits it hits Amen’s leg and then hits as it’s going out of bounds. It hits uh Eve’s foot for the Rockets. 510 to go in an eventful second quarter here. Durant right by Bay and one. He is still one of the best scorers in the G. Just losing him when they did was just it it hurt so much. Especially when you lose a guy during these offseason activities where it’s not an official thing and it’s it it’s it’s it’s hard for him to see. I’m glad he was able to get that contract situation situated before. You don’t want to see guys like that just get hurt. All right, Durant makes the free throw. P gets his pocket picked after trying to dribble through three defenders. Taken by E. Get it down to Shenun. Shenon underneath the hoop. Bounce feed to the cutting Thompson and lays it in with a left hand foul by Eyes. So, so much for the two-point deficit. It’s a little Alpie Shenon chicken wing there. Can’t get sloppy with the basketball. I think for the most part, Tom, you turning it over. They’re scoring right now. It is a 17-10 difference. That’s seven points. It’s a seven-point game. And no good. Now it is eight. It’s an 18 to 10 difference. So they have doubled up turnovers to points. Nine turnovers, 18 points off the turnovers. Can’t do it. 5143. Her floats it in down deep and hot and ei. That was a pass over Shenon. Want to make sure they get that right on the stats book. 5145. Shenon pounded by Macy. Left of the lane. Threw it through the hands of Smith. If it goes out of bounds, did Pool touch it? It’s going to be Pelicans ball. Should be Pelicans. Yeah, there you go. Nice stretch at the end of the first quarter. Now he wants the ball right of the lane. Backing down Jabari Smith. Left hand tripped up by Smith. That’s what you want to see. Just nonchalantly tosses it up. Even that goes in. Just a third team foul for the Rockets. Pels are over the limit. So Rockets will shoot free throws for the final 406. We kind of hit a snag here in this game with a nice flow going that has dissipated since the altercation between Alvarado and Aman Thompson. See as that picks back up with Zion Williamson on the floor. Now Herb show and go. Lays it in with a right hand again. He just drove the lane and everybody backed off. Remember everybody was afraid. If you had Zion in one dunker spot, you had Eve on the other side. Everybody expected a lob to one of those guys and Herb just said, “I’ll do it myself.” Four for Herb. Back home in Alabama. Shenoon shovels it Durant around a Shangon pick. Deflected by Z. Fight for it. We get it with Murphy. Murphy will dunk. So Z again the deflection. I’m happy for Trey Murphy’s dunk, but I think there’s a couple of people who might be upset he didn’t try to hit it ahead to Z for a bigger dunk. Boy, Murphy wanted to get the inbound pass. Didn’t get it. Now Shenun is going to get an easy layup except he cleared space with his right fist and it’s going to be a foul offensively on Alpron Shenon. He had the other one down here. He had the chicken wing on uh on the on the one that ended up on the man Thompson layup. So glad they got that call there. I mean Trey wants to be in the dunk contest, too, but I know you’re exactly right. Z would have uh done the windmill 360. Z uh Z had a little laugh about that one as they were uh they were going back up the court. So Murphy now with seven points, but again we’re seeing the impact Williamson h is having defensively for this team. Three steals right now. Durant’s at the free throw line. Must have had a he knocks this free throw down. Technical on Herb. I think they were 39. Rockets up by three. Durant by the way six points. Herb out feed to me. Shovels to Pool. Pool drives in running floater. Back tap and it’s taken by Een. Een front court. Top of the key will back it out now beyond the arc. Still dribbling with a right hand. Leave it for Durant. Tough pass. Durant maintains control backing down Murray to the right lane line. Falls away. Can do it blindfolded from 10 ft. literally blindfolded. 5449. What more could Trey Murphy do except answer as he just did? So many paint touches and I know this is how Willie Green wants to play. Murphy floats one in. Right hand above the dotted line. Now Een weaves through traffic. Stops. Pops short. Might have been deflected by Got a piece of that taken by Murphy. Pels down three. 220 to go. Second quarter. Z chest it up top. Pool fly by Durant. spot a three. Nope. Just short. Jordan Pool now 205 from distance. Durant leaked out. Lost control but got it back in the left corner. Get it out long. Shenoon. Shenoon sizing up. Mei puts a right shoulder down and knocks the reverse layup down with a right hand. 5651 Rockets. Under two minutes left in the second quarter. Pool bump by Thompson. Shovels it to Herb. He’s wide open. One dribble and three. Good from the right wing. Herbert Kockets. Pel’s now four of 18 from distance. Thompson above the arc. Wants a pick from Adams instead. Euros in. Throw it out to Een. Extra pass deflected right to Durant. That got blocked by Pull. Attempted three. Taken by Murphy. Trey. Little hop. Skip and a jump into the front court. Crosses over Een. Drives. Euros in on Adams and lays it in with a left hand. Activity on defense leading the transition points on the other. And you’re still getting paint touches. Bells are getting to the paint whatever they want tonight. 36 points in the paint for New Orleans. We got a minute left in the second quarter. We’re all tied up at 56. Durant left of the center circle. Pick from Steven Adams. Puts the brakes on. Throws it crosscourt to E for a spot up three around and out. Tipped up. No. Shangon taken by Mei. Watch the outlet pass. We get it back with P. Pool goes behind the back. Bounce pass to Z. Takes on Shangon. Misses the scooping lefty layup. Now Thompson’s got the rebound. It’s threeon two. Thompson drives and he’s fouled hard. Adams. I think that was we know we know Steven Adams and that’s that wasn’t Steven Adams. That was that was an accident. Herb with the foul. Adams ran into the small of the back by or Adams ran into Herb Jones’s small of the back. Kind of knocked him forward. Stephen Adams also strong enough to catch Herb Jones from falling to the ground which might have helped there. might be the strongest guy in the NBA. Might be. Now in his 13th year out of pit. And your sister in his an Olympic shot putting gold medalist. Thompson’s free throw rattles in. Ahmed Thompson now 13 points. Three in double figures for the Rockets. Smith leads all scorers with 16. Thompson with 13. Tara E. No doubt they are going to be a problem this year in the string conference or the Rockets. We’ve seen multiple lineups where it’s been just Tari E in there with their starting group. Obviously he just checks out Ree Shepard comes in but both free throws good. 5856. Jordan Pool spot up deep. Deep three. No good. Long rebound. Carlo Makovich who just checked in. Shot clock now at eight. Pcourt over to Trey. Wide open right wing three. No good. Rebound Z back out long to P. Shot clock, game clock 8 seconds apart. I’ll take a couple of these offensive rebounds. Well, they need to go in. Pool bounce feed to Makovic. Takes the pass. One dribble. Take a left wing three. Why not, Carlo? Why not? Jordan’s looking at the assist for that from being on the ground. First points for Makovich. You got a one-point lead. 5 seconds to go. Durant left lane line. Pops one up from 10. Are you serious? That’s Kevin Durant. five. That’ll do it.

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