Green scores season-high 37 points as Rockets get win over Wizards

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Jalen Green scored a season-high 37 points as the Houston Rockets built a big lead early and cruised to a 135-119 win over the Washington Wizards on Thursday night.

“We’ve been playing really good,” Green said. “Defense has been our main priority because we’re very talented offensively. When we get out in transition and run it's very hard to guard us. So it all starts with defense and that's been really good.”scored 25 points off the bench for the Wizards, who dropped their second game in a row after winning their previous two.

“I thought we started well it got away from us a little bit in the second quarter, ” Washington interim coach Brian Keefe said. “We never really got our defense in the game. The ball was getting in the paint way too easily.”Green talked about how they're adjusting to playing without Sengun, who is out indefinitely with his injuries.A 6-0 run by the Wizards, with four points from Avdija, cut Houston’s lead to 112-101 early in the fourth.

 

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