HOUSTON — In his playoff debut this weekend Jalen Green admitted that playoff jitters got the best of him. “The lights were bright, the crowd was here, the court looked huge,” he said. “So I couldn’t really get a chance to settle in. My legs was a little shaky.” Things were much different Wednesday night. Green made eight 3-pointers and scored 38 points to lead the Houston Rockets to a 109-94 victory over the Golden State Warriors in a testy matchup to even the first-round Western Conference series at one game apiece.“I feel like a did a good job of answering back,” he said. “From the beginning my whole mindset from today was to go in and be aggressive and get back to being myself.” The seventh-seeded Warriors never led and played short-handed for most of the night after Jimmy Butler left with a pelvis contusion after a hard fall on a foul late in the first quarter.Green, the No. 2 pick in the 2021 draft, rebounded from a flop in his playoff debut, when he scored just seven points on 3-of-15 shooting, with a dominant Game 2.His eight 3-pointers were two more than the No. 2-seeded Rockets made on 6-of-29 shooting in a 95-85 Game 1 loss.Alperen Sengun had 17 points and 16 rebounds for the Rockets. Tari …
