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Rockets ride hot hand, Harden's 33 leads team to win

Posted on March 12, 2014 at 05:56 PM.

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Despite Nate Robinson's strong play the Nuggets just could not pull away from the Rockets. James Harden came to play today scoring 33 points. Although Harden struggled from the 3 point line the Rockets managed to shoot 35% from 3. I spoke with Harden after the win he had this to say, "This was a great team win. I couldn't have done what I did tonight without the help of my teammates. J had my back helping me score so it wasn't all on my shoulders. I didn't shoot as well as I had liked but we got the win and I shot good enough to win the game. We are happy we got this one. Give a lot of credit to Denver they tried to fight back they had a lot of heart. They are always tough competition." Without Dwight Howard tonight the Rockets improve to 2-3. Denver is unhappy with the play and Nate Robinson hammered his team after their loss tonight. "I can't keep doing everything. This was a very frustrating game that we could have won. I didn't play the best but I thought I played well enough to at least give us a chance. I needed a little help from my teammates. I know I had alot of turnovers but I thought I passed the ball quite well and settled down in the 2nd half to give us a chance. Frustrating loss and the coaches will hear about it." J.J. Hickson played just 6 minutes tonight but was quite productive in the short minutes getting 7 points and going perfect from the FT line.

Denver fall to 1-3. A strong 3rd quarter helped the Rockets improve to 2-3

Houston Rockets at Denver Nuggets
Nov 5, 2014	1ST	2ND	3RD	4TH	SCORE
Houston (2-3)	25	29	35	25	114
Denver (1-3)	26	28	22	28	104

Houston Rockets
STARTERS	MIN	FGM-A	3PM-A	FTM-A	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PTS
J.Lin	31	9-16	2-6	4-5	3	4	1	1	1	24
J.Harden	38	12-31	3-11	6-6	4	6	1	0	2	33
C.Parsons	37	4-10	3-6	2-2	5	1	1	2	2	13
T.Jones	32	2-4	0-0	0-0	9	2	1	1	1	4
O.Asik	32	4-7	0-0	0-1	13	1	2	4	2	8
BENCH	MIN	FGM-A	3PM-A	FTM-A	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PTS
P.Beverly	19	5-7	1-1	0-0	1	3	2	0	3	11
R.Covington	15	1-3	1-2	0-0	3	1	0	0	0	3
J.Hamilton	11	2-5	0-2	0-1	4	1	0	1	3	4
F.Garcia	9	2-4	0-1	1-1	3	1	0	2	0	5
I.Canaan	9	1-2	1-2	2-2	1	2	0	1	0	5
D.Motiejunas	7	1-1	0-0	0-0	1	1	1	0	0	2
N.Brady	5	1-2	0-0	0-0	0	1	1	0	0	2
TEAM TOTALS		44-92 (48%)	11-31 (35%)	15-18 (83%)	47	24	10	12	14	114

Denver Nuggets
STARTERS	MIN	FGM-A	3PM-A	FTM-A	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PTS
N.Robinson	48	13-28	2-4	3-5	8	15	4	1	8	31
R.Foye	40	8-15	1-4	6-7	6	5	0	0	2	23
W.Chandler	31	6-11	2-3	1-1	1	0	2	1	1	15
K.Faried	37	4-5	0-0	4-6	8	0	0	0	0	12
J.McGee	32	3-6	0-0	0-0	10	1	1	3	0	6
BENCH	MIN	FGM-A	3PM-A	FTM-A	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PTS
D.Gallinari	16	3-4	0-1	0-0	3	1	2	0	0	6
E.Fournier	9	0-2	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	1	0	0
A.Randolph	9	1-5	0-1	0-0	1	0	1	0	0	2
D.Arthur	7	0-1	0-0	0-0	1	0	0	0	0	0
J.J.Hickson	6	2-3	0-0	3-3	3	0	0	0	0	7
A.Payne	6	0-1	0-0	2-2	1	0	0	0	1	2
J.Vesley	5	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0
TEAM TOTALS		40-81 (49%)	5-13 (38%)	19-24 (79%)	42	22	10	6	13	104