The Houston Rockets\u2019 third-ranked offensive attack hinges heavily on their ability to outmuscle opponents on the offensive glass. Houston\u2019s 16.1 offensive rebounds pace the league.<\/p>\n
And their 18.8 second-chance points also leads the league.<\/p>\n
Unsurprisingly, the Rockets have four players that rank in the top-25 in offensive rebounds, in Steven Adams, Alperen Sengun, Amen Thompson and Clint Capela.<\/p>\n
That approach figures to look different for awhile.<\/p>\n
Reserve center (and quasi-starter) Steven Adams will be out indefinitely, as he suffered an ankle injury in Houston\u2019s 119-110 revenge victory over the New Orleans Pelicans.<\/p>\n
Adams went down in the fourth quarter and had to be helped off the court by his teammates, which was a sign of the severity of the injury and degree of pain that Adams was in.<\/p>\n
Adams has been diagnosed with a Grade 3 ankle sprain, which will force him to miss an extended amount of time.<\/p>\n
According to Rockets coach Ime Udoka, Adams won\u2019t be back anytime soon.<\/p>\n
On the season, Adams is averaging 5.8 points, 8.6 rebounds, 4.5 offensive rebounds and 50.4 percent from the field.<\/p>\n
His 4.5 offensive boards leads the league.<\/p>\n
That number illustrates exactly how dominant of a rebounder he\u2019s been, as that\u2019s not even his career-best.<\/p>\n
It would rank as his fifth-best.<\/p>\n
The Rockets are the team that\u2019s best equipped to sustain an injury like this. It\u2019s why they signed Capela in the summer.<\/p>\n
To be able to execute their strategy of dominating on the glass, either with or without Adams in the lineup.<\/p>\n
Although there is a clear drop off from Adams to Capela.<\/p>\n
It helps that the All-Star break is coming up, as it gives Adams an additional week to rest, without missing any of the Rockets\u2019 games.<\/p>\n
Houston has 12 games until the All-Star break.<\/p>\n
All told, Adams has missed nine games this season, and the Rockets have posted a 5-4 record in his absence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Houston Rockets\u2019 third-ranked offensive attack hinges heavily on their ability to outmuscle opponents on the offensive glass.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":539051,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3794],"tags":[7,292,194,4066,6,211,48716],"class_list":{"0":"post-559498","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston-rockets","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-houston","10":"tag-houston-rockets","11":"tag-houstonrockets","12":"tag-nba","13":"tag-rockets","14":"tag-rockets-injury-report"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115954668845254794","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=559498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559498\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/539051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=559498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=559498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=559498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}