Harden Puts Brown in the Friend Zone Which Leads to a Niang Three

The Rockets with hustle defense against Mikel Brown Jr force a jumpball and the Rockets' bench gets loud liking the effort with a replay

Barry Dunning Jr with the powerful dunk off the give and go with Yang Hansen who then drives and puts Nate Santos on a posterFatigued Yang Hansen grabs a rebound barely walking joking with the Timberwolves while remaining in the backcourt

Darius Brown with a great long lob to Khaman Maluach for the alley-oop dunk over Yang Hansen DJ Steward with a nice layup over Maluach and Rasheer Fleming with the powerful dunk on a late contest by Hansen at the other end

Offseason Harden has arrived

The Rockets go for the Hack-A-Sharp tactic against 7'5'' Jamarion Sharp in the 4th quarter who is less than 50 from the line for his careerSharp does wellThe game ends with 61 fouls in 40 minutes - 31 for the Rockets 30 for the Raptors

Tristen Newton drives on Labaron Philon and scores the turnaround jumper over him Quadir Copeland strips Johni Broome and Newton passes to Isaiah Crawford for the fastbreak with a replayThe Rockets are up 45-25 in the 3rd quarter