Melo gets a clutch steal on Harden and blocks Tuckers 3 on the nest possession

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

Bryce Hopkins goes coast to coast splits the entire Rockets' defense and scores Bruce Thornton with a turnaround jumper Oscar Cluff with the fastbreak dunk the hook shot Thornton with a 3 and the pass to Isaiah Crawford for the 3-pointer

RJ Melendez intercepts the pass and soars for the fastbreak dunk

Oscar Cluff misses the tip in gets the ball back for the alley-oop dunk then intercepts the pass scores the fastbreak layup and gets back quickly on defense to deflect the pass inside with replays

Stephon Castle blocks Jalen Brunson and De'Aaron Fox blocks Karl-Anthony Towns twice under the rim and Jalen Brunson eventually scores the jumper to beat the shot clock off the inbound

RJ Melendez blocks the 3-point attempt by Trevor Keels to end the 1st halfMelendez with his 4th block of the 1st half