Houston Rockets – Los Angeles Clippers TIPS, PREVIEW & PREDICTION (23.12.2017)

Houston Rockets – Los Angeles Clippers / NBA – Although they are scheduled to meet four times in the regular season, the second duel between Houston Rockets and Los Angeles Clippers is on the program. The Rockets are still recovering from the surprise defeat against the Lakers and ending their long streak of victory as the Clippers triumphed over the Suns before the duel, ending their series of three defeats.

Houston Rockets
Houston’s winning streak ended when it was perhaps least expected. In the home game against the Lakers namely they were considered clear favorites, but were still defeated and in this way they finished their positive series of 14 victories. In addition, Chris Paul injured so he is likely to miss the match against his former club. The team was led by Harden (51 points), but the Rockets simply had no answer for the fast team game of the Lakers and the great rookie Kuzma (38 points) as well as the former Houston player Brewer (21 points).
The Rockets lost their only fifth defeat this season (26 wins), but continue to be the league’s best NBA team. It is interesting that they were defeated at home four times, while outwardly they recorded 12 wins and only one defeat. The match against the Lakers missed Center Capela, who is questionable for this game against the Clippers. The Rockets prefer the distance game (42 threes against the Lakers) and it’s clear that their game of Harden and Gordon, who is brilliant at throwing from the three-point line, depends very much.

Los Angeles Clippers
The Clippers have been celebrating against the Suns on their own floor before this match and so they will be in Houston trying to continue their winning streak. The Clippers are in a series of three away defeats. This season, they have recorded only 5 wins in 16 matches outside Staples Center. Currently, they occupy the tenth place in the table of the Western Conference, with 12 wins and 18 defeats on the account, so, with only a triumph ahead of the Lakers. The Clippers have major injury problems and so Griffin and Beverly are currently out of action, while Gallinari and Johnson are also missing.
Gallinari will be missing at least 15 days, while Johnson will be available in a week. Without these players, coach Rivers will have to experiment a lot with the starting five, but the problem is that their reserve bank is not that wide anymore. Suddenly, Center Jordan has become the key player, and he is delighted with the remake of the game maker, Teodosic, because he is thrilled with his play, especially in the area of ​​assists, while Lou Williams takes advantage of the absence of his teammates in the best possible way.

Houston Rockets – Los Angeles Clippers TIP
If we compare these two teams, then we can see that Houston are better than the Clippers in all segments. The Rockets are well aware that they can not relax as in the duel against the Lakers, which they have lost and that could feel the second team from Los Angeles on their own body.