"All night long, the Rockets crashed the boards and stayed in the game. Shot after shot, rebound after rebound, they cleaned the glass and kept scoring.

Then the Hawks topped them. With the game tied in its final second, Josh Smith escaped the bench long enough to slam home a Mike Bibby miss with seven-tenths of a second left, lifting the Hawks to a 105-103 victory Friday night in Philips Arena.

The Rockets had scored 29 second-chance points in the game, 10 more than they had in any game this season, and had come back from a 10-point deficit in the final two minutes, tying the game on a pair of Carl Landry free throws with five seconds left.

Until the last possession, Smith had played just 39 seconds in the fourth quarter and had taken only one shot since the first quarter. Bibby had made just two of eight attempts and had missed his previous attempt, a long 3-pointer, seconds earlier.

Bibby pulled up from 17 feet and missed, but Rockets center Chuck Hayes had come out to help contest Bibby's shot, confident there was only enough time remaining for that one shot. He missed by less than a second.

"The plan was to switch all pick-and-rolls," Hayes said. "Bibby rejects it (the screen). I saw he had an alley and I committed to Bibby. I thought by the time he got the shot off, the buzzer would go off. I misjudged it and Josh Smith made a hell of a play."

The Hawks seemed to have secured the win earlier. But on a night the Rockets trailed most of the way, but kept coming back, they had one more run in them. "