HOUSTON – In Sunday’s Game 1 of a first-round playoff series, the three-point loving Houston Rockets made a mere two more threes than the Timberwolves and still walked away three-point winners after a last-seconds scare.
In Wednesday’s Game, Rockets superstar James Harden made just two of his 18 shots from the field three nights after he scored 44 points and still his team won, this time routing the Wolves 102-82 at Toyota Center.
The series heads to Target Center for Saturday’s Game 3 with the eighth-seeded Wolves trailing top-seeded Houston 2-0.
This time, the Rockets’ Harden-Chris Paul switched roles from Sunday when Paul came back from a six-turnover game then and delivered an acrobatic 27-point, eight-assist performance while former Timberwolves forward Gerald Green scored 21 points off the bench.