The Rockets ended their incredible month of November in style, beating the Pacers 118-97 in Houston for their sixth straight win, capping a 12-1 month overall. Their only loss in the month was to the Raptors, who shot incredibly well from the field and made their threes, something an opposing team seemingly has to do in order to beat the Rockets these days.
Harden had 29 points, 10 assists and 8 rebounds Wednesday in what was an off shooting night by his standards, as he finished 8 for 22 overall. He had a lot of help from his teammates however, including a double double from Clint Capela(who has really emerged this season as a solid 4th or 5th option on offense, on top of being a really really good defender) and a 19 point effort from Ryan Anderson. Chris Paul made a couple of clutch shots as well to help Houston capture the win.
Thaddeus Young cut the lead to 10 with a hook shot with about eight minutes left. The Rockets, however, put it away with a 16-4 run, that basically happened in the blink of an eye, and made it 110-88 with about four minutes left.
Trevor Ariza made a 3-pointer in that stretch and Ryan Anderson added two of his own.
The Pacers went cold down the stretch, were called for defensive three seconds and committed an offensive foul to allow the Rockets to pad the lead that would not relinquish in the end.
Young finished with 23 points for the Pacers. They have won seven of their last 10 games.
Houston led by 18 after three, but Indiana scored the first seven points of the fourth to get within 89-78, all of which were scored by Young.
After a Pacers timeout, Chris Paul hit a clutch, fade away three right before the shot clock expired to give the Rockets their first points of the quarter before he found a wide open Ryan Anderson for a rare dunk to make it 94-80 with nine minutes left. The Pacers never fully rebounded from this stretch, and were in catch up mode for the rest of the game.