The Rockets beat the Clippers 115-113 on Thursday night. James Harden scored 22 points and tied the game at 110 apiece with 37 seconds remaining in the fourth quarter. That's when things fell apart.

Amen Thompson put the Rockets up by tapping the ball in with 17.2 seconds left and drawing a foul. Aaron Holiday then put the Rockets up three again with 8.7 seconds remaining. Nicolas Batum took the ball out of bounds, but no one came to get the ball. Batum ran the baseline but ended up stepping on the line for a violation and dead ball turnover.

It's not often you see a team so utterly unprepared to enter the ball after a free throw. There wasn't a single player inside the three-point line. James Harden didn't even try to move towards the ball. Instead he was signaling for Kawhi Leonard, wh

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