Victor Oladipo’s Houston Rockets debut was spoiled in a 125-120 loss to the Bulls in Chicago on Monday night.
The Rockets got off to an extremely poor start to the game.
Houston shot an abysmal 2-of-11 from deep in the first quarter. They also gave up the ball nine different times, with Christian Wood contributing to three of them, getting called for two offensive fouls and a travel. Oladipo looked out of sorts to begin, going only one-of-four from the field with three turnovers.
The Rockets were also stuck on 13 points from 3:31 in the first until the last 17 seconds of the quarter, when they finally got a free-throw to drop and a David Nwaba steal (fourth of the quarter) led to an easy layup for him on the other side with 1.