Houston Rockets vs Atlanta Hawks
TV: Space City Home Network
Online: Rockets App
Gametime: 8:30 PM CST
Probable Starting Lineups
Rockets: Reed Sheppard, Amen Thompson, Kevin Durant, Jabari Smith Jr, Alperen Sengun
Hawks: TV Trae Young, Dyson “The Vacuum” Daniels, Jalen “Jeremiah” Johnson, Kristaps “ouch!” Porzingis, Onyeka “King” Okongwu
Injuries
Rockets: Dorian Finney-Smith (OUT – Ankle), Reed Sheppard (GTD? DTD?, Something or other.), Fred VanVleet (Out For Season – Did His Knee)
Hawks Caw! Caw!: N’Faly Dante (GTD), Eli John N’Diaye (GTD), Jobin
Toppin (GTD), Nikola Ricola Djurisic (GTD)
Here we go! The Rockets first game, albeit preseason, of The Kevin Durant Era.
It’s Kevin Durant’s first game as a Rocket. It’s the first game with Amen Thompson and Reed Sheppard sharing point guard duties. And, most importantly, the NBA is back. Some of us might need a little Rockets basketball more than others. That group would include me.
The Hawks are team with an actual chance to advance pretty far in the east, depending on the health of Jalen Johnson and Kristaps Porzingis.
If you were wondering where my piece on minutes for backcourt and wing players went, between moving house, and assorted chaos, I decided to wait until we’d actually seen this brave, new, backcourt of the Rockets.
I’ll be recapping the game on TDS, too, so please look for that as well.
Streaming Option:
I know many of you enjoyed and supported our TDS playback stream last season. I did as well. I’m not sure what the status of the TDS Playback Stream will be going forward. Perhaps we will have more clarity at some point.
Until that time, if you want to join me, but not Armin (for tonight), you can swing by my very own playback channel – NBA Late Net – Rockets Red. The situation with playback and SBN isn’t what it was last season. That said, it should be a good time as the preseason and season roll on. We’d welcome your presence and support! There are now actual ways to support the stream without gambling, which I expect would mostly pay for dumb props for prop comedy or something. Maybe League Pass, I dare dream.
I have a limited number of VIPs to hand out so if you don’t have some other method of watching, you can watch with me.
I don’t know how to put up a poll, still, with this WordPress front end. It’s beginning to bother me, and I’m sure you, too.
