The veteran Los Angeles Lakers trampling the inexperienced Houston Rockets was a quite predictable outcome for Sunday night's matchup in Los Angeles.

Not only do the Lakers possess a giant talent and experience advantage over Houston, but players like Kevin Porter Jr. and Jalen Green have never played in the Staples Center before and consider the venue to be hallowed grounds. However, the Rockets do get a chance at redemption on Tuesday and considering how badly they played, theoretically there's no way to go but up.

Rockets-Lakers: Keys To A Houston Victory

1. Getting past being starstruck

The Lakers have a combined 57 All-Star appearances on their roster. Between LeBron James, Anthony Davis, Russell Westbrook, Dwight Howard, and Carmelo Anthony, there are a lot of names that young Rockets players grew up watching. In addition to acclimating to the bright lights of Staples Center, Houston has to start viewing these Hall of Famers as adversaries instead of role models. That's a tough adjustment to make for a young player, but it's the easiest thing Houston can do to play better on Tuesday.

2. Tightening up the turnovers

This is going to be tough as turnovers have been an issue all season for Houston. With a backcourt under the age of 22-years-old, it isn't surprising that the Rockets cough the ball up a lot. They're first in the league in turnovers percentage and lead the league in fast break points allowed.  The Lakers may be old, but they're good enough to take advantage of the Rockets when they get butter fingers. If Houston slows down and makes easier reads, they shouldn't turn the ball over 27 times again.

3. Making three-pointers

The Rockets were 6-of-28 from three-point range on Sunday and they have the personal to be an average three-point shooting team now. Aside from Jae'Sean Tate and Daniel Theis, everyone on Houston's core of seven players can make three-pointers. This means nights like yesterday are pretty unacceptable. They should also be attempting more than just 28 threes against this Lakers team if they want to have a chance at winning.

4. Not missing free throws

The Rockets missed an unacceptable 14 of their 29 free throw attempts on Sunday and it felt like most of the misses could be attributed to nerves. Jalen Green was aggressive attacking the basket, but only made half of his attempts (3-of-6), Christian Wood was worse, making only 1-of-6 of his shots from behind the charity stripe. If they made only 70 percent of their free throws, they lose by 5 points instead of 10. Unlike turnovers, this is an easily correctable mistakes.

5. Jalen Green being aggressive

It's funny how differently Jalen Green operates when he's on the floor by himself versus when Porter Jr. is playing. By himself, Green seems to want the ball more and attack the basket in the halfcourt. When Porter Jr. plays, Green turns back into this catch-and-shoot player that's beneath his capabilities. He also seems to pass the ball more when he's operating the playmaking duties by himself. This is why it might be wise for Silas to consider staggering the two guards at some point this season. For the purposes of Tuesday night in Los Angeles, however, Green just needs to have that same level of confidence attacking the basket and being a ball handler that he had down 10 points in the fourth quarter at the start of Tuesday's matchup.

The game should be fun, but as always with the Rockets, you never know what version of the team is going to show up.