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How high can the Rockets reach this season?



How high can the Rockets reach this season?

Dave DuFour and Zena Keita breakdown the Thunder’s loss to the Trailblazers and Luka Doncic’s impressive night against Wemby and the Spurs. Then, Will Guillory joins the show from Memphis to discuss Houston’s start to the season, Kevin Durant’s struggles, and why there’s more to the problems in Memphis than Ja Morant.

Host: Dave DuFour
With: Zena Keita and Will Guillory
Executive Producer: Andrew Schlecht
Audio/Video Producer: Grayson Moody

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Timecodes:
00:00 – Intro
00:29 – Thunder lose a lot sooner than we were expecting
02:54 – Lakers beat Spurs, rough game for Wemby
05:10 – Luka continues great start to the season
05:51 – Bring back the physicality, too many foul calls!
08:11 – Missing VanVleet, KD’s start, others shining
11:29 – Rockets’ offense
14:17 – Continuing to be number 1 in offensive rebounds
16:57 – Athleticism is key
20:58 – The Grizzlies energy is gone

Thumbnail: Alex Slitz / Staff, Kenneth Richmond / Staff via Getty Images

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22 Comments

  2. @H-Town_83

    The Rockets offense is dynamic. They have learned fast how they want to play. Amen seems to have taken a jump along with Alpi. Teams have decided KD will not beat them and they lose by 20 because everyone eats.

  3. @hbcanada86

    Isn't this pretty common for laker games? I mean i don't watch many.. but the few I do. They get sooo many whistles for them

  4. @geeman8332

    All these big scoring nights are inflated due to all these free throws. They have to find a balance

  6. @Jfsgknd

    Lmao. They can be better but the warriors fan and the token rockets hater spend the whole time talking about how it’s not a consistent formula for success. Can’t wait for ai to replace yall.

  7. @MalfeasanceQ

    Sengun was drawing double teams all of last year too. But Green and Jabari failed to hit their open shots. This year it's different.

  8. @QuickSavant

    Good summary of the Spurs-Lakers game. "Ayton had a good game–when Wemby was out." Ayton "outplayed" Wemby while he sat on the bench. Impressive;

  10. @Christopher._M

    The rockets were not a great offense last year. They just got enough possession to make it appear like they were respectable but they were pretty bad.

  11. @yessounds1973

    Its too early to say what the Rockets are or what they will be. So far, they have beat 5 sub .500 teams and lost to 2 over .500 teams. Need a bigger sample size to reach any definite conclusions.

  13. @reverefilms14

    Jabari Smith Jr still exist btw & Rockets will be fine offensively with or without the 3. Not sure where all the pessimism is coming from when they took the champs to double OT their 1st game

  14. @marcr196

    They have better shooting than last year simply by substituting Green and Brooks for KD, but the 3 point shooting is not going to last. Sengun is a career 28% 3 point shooter and is shooting 43% this season, on double his career average attempts. Josh Okogie is a career 30% 3 point shooter and is shooting 52% this season on career high attempts. Tari Eason is a career 36% 3 point shooter and is shooting 56% this season on nearly double his career average in attempts. No one is really underperforming either. KD is shooting 1.5% worse than his career average from 3 on the same amount of attempts. Jabari Smith Jr. is shooting 5% better than his career average from 3 on the same number of attempts.

    You can convince me that Sengun has taken a leap from 3, but you aren't going to convince me that Okogie has and that Tari Eason is going to set a record for highest 3 point percentage in an NBA season.

  17. @BallorNothingatAll

    We were def not a great offense last year lol Sengun was one of the most doubled players in the league last year. Ja's problem is the coaching staff, the plays the system and the injuries on his role players and the stupid trades they did. Everyone blaming Ja but not seeing what the team did to make things this way.

  18. @vexxxboy

    Ever since they traded Adams they havent been the same team . JJJ and Ja havent been the same players since he left and if you saw that interview with JJJ about Adams leaving he was almost in tears.about Adams leaving.

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