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Streaking Hawks host Rockets Friday

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Nov 20, 2009

Next for Hawks

Who: Rockets

When: 7:30 p.m. today

TV; radio: SPSO; 790

* Last season, the Rockets split with the Hawks, with each team winning at home.

* Houston ranks seventh in the league in scoring at 103.7 points per game, led by Trevor Ariza's 18.4 points.

* The Rockets beat the Los Angeles Lakers at the Staples Center Sunday, holding Kobe Bryant to 5-of-20 shooting.

* A player to watch is forward/center Chuck Hayes, a defensive stopper who averages only 6.3 points per game but has a plus-minus ratio of +54.

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Ken Sugiura is a sports columnist at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Formerly the Georgia Tech beat reporter, Sugiura started at the AJC in 1998 and has covered a variety of beats, mostly within sports.

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