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Just a night after suffering their worst defeat of the season, the Houston Rockets went on the road to defeat the Milwaukee Bucks, 117-103.
The Rockets were once again without starting point guard Patrick Beverly, starting center Dwight Howard and back up point guard Isaiah Canaan. Starting in their stead at point guard tonight was 37 year old, Jason Terry.
Terry, (18 points, five assists, six rebounds) like the rest of the Rockets, were pretty cold to start the game, but he did prove that his old man legs still have enough JET fuel in them to take off every now and again for an in game dunk.
Donatas Motiejunas (my apologies for the constant misspellings on Twitter) also had an incredible night out for the Rockets. He was 9-13 from the field and 2-3 from the charity stripe for 20 points to go with six rebounds, four assists, and zero turnovers.
The Bucks were going to hang around a while though. Jabari Parker led the Bucks with 19 points and 9 boards, including making his first free throws of the season at home tonight, did what he could to make the Bucks competitive against the injury stricken Rockets.
The Bucks took advantage of James Harden looking to get his teammates involved early and the Rockets doing what they could to let them hang around. Harden had only 12 of his 34 points in the first half, but he did have four assists, four rebounds, two steals and a block, while shooting 2-4 from the floor (1-1 from three) and was 7-7 from the line as the Rockets did go into the break leading by only seven points.
After coming out from the "15 minute" break the Rockets and especially Harden were hot to start the third quarter. Harden and Terry pushed the lead up over 13 points consistently, with Harden scoring 19 more points and adding two more steals and two more assists.
Heading into the fourth quarter the game was never in much danger of slipping away. Trevor Ariza also chipped in with 18 points and 10 rebounds while Kostas Papanikolaou was the only other Rocket in double figures with 12 points.
The icing on the cake was this steal and dunk by Kostas Papanikolaou on Larry Sanders:
The Rockets have a few days off now before hosting the West leading Memphis Grizzlies on Wednesday, December 3rd. Game is at 7:oo PM on CSNH.
Houston Rockets at Milwakee Bucks
Nov 29, 2014
1ST
2ND
3RD
4TH
SCORE
Houston (13-4)
28
25
32
32
117
Milwakee (10-8)
23
23
26
31
103
Houston Rockets
STARTERS
MIN
FGM-A
3PM-A
FTM-A
REB
AST
STL
BLK
TO
PTS
Jason Terry
34:37
7-15
4-8
0-0
6
5
0
0
0
18
James Harden
38:16
9-14
4-5
12-13
6
8
4
1
5
34
Tariq Black
21:03
4-6
0-0
0-0
5
1
0
0
0
8
Trevor Ariza
40:33
5-18
4-12
0-0
10
3
2
0
3
14
Donatas Motiejunas
30:58
9-13
0-1
2-3
6
4
0
0
0
20
BENCH
MIN
FGM-A
3PM-A
FTM-A
REB
AST
STL
BLK
TO
PTS
Joey Dorsey
12:31
2-2
0-0
0-0
5
0
0
3
1
4
Kostas Papanikolaou
28:34
5-6
2-2
0-0
3
4
1
0
1
12
Nick Johnson
13:13
1-5
0-3
0-0
1
0
0
0
2
2
Francisco Garcia
18:19
1-7
0-6
0-0
2
1
0
1
1
2
Troy Daniels
01:46
1-1
1-1
0-0
0
0
0
0
0
3
Isaiah Canaan
-- DID NOT PLAY --
Dwight Howard
-- DID NOT PLAY --
Patrick Beverly
-- DID NOT PLAY --
TEAM TOTALS
44-87
15-38
14-16
44
24
7
5
13
117
Milwakee Bucks
STARTERS
MIN
FGM-A
3PM-A
FTM-A
REB
AST
STL
BLK
TO
PTS
Brandon Knight
28:49
4-8
2-2
2-2
1
2
2
0
0
12
O.J. Mayo
21:57
2-10
0-3
2-2
2
1
0
0
0
6
Larry Sanders
23:44
3-3
0-0
5-8
5
1
0
3
1
11
Giannis Antetokounmpo
34:42
7-12
0-1
3-3
7
2
0
2
0
17
Jabari Parker
31:49
3-7
0-0
13-14
9
5
2
0
4
19
BENCH
MIN
FGM-A
3PM-A
FTM-A
REB
AST
STL
BLK
TO
PTS
Khris MIddleton
20:27
3-5
1-1
4-4
2
3
2
0
0
11
Ersan Ilyasova
24:16
7-14
2-5
2-2
2
1
0
0
1
18
Kendall Marshall
19:11
0-3
0-2
0-2
0
4
1
0
3
0
Jerryd Bayless
21:11
2-8
0-2
0-0
1
3
1
0
1
4
Jared Dudley
13:54
2-4
1-2
0-0
3
1
0
0
0
5
Nate Wolters
-- DID NOT PLAY --
John Henson
-- DID NOT PLAY --
Zaza Pachulia
-- DID NOT PLAY --
TEAM TOTALS
33-74
6-19
31-35
32
16
7
5
11
103
Rockets 117, Bucks 103: Harden, Motiejunas too much for Milwaukee in 117-103 loss - Brew Hoop
Jabari Parker and Giannis Antetokounmpo had good nights for Milwaukee, but it wasn't enough against a good Houston team.