Adam Clanton

And like you mentioned, Ben, let's see how Ime Udoka adjusts on the fly with his rotations now that he's been dealt this latest hand.

That's another fascinating aspect of the rest of this season moving forward that I want to keep an eye on.

Blazers are the team that I like, man, you talk about a free throw merchant.

If he's going to get that whistle, they're going to be a problem.

Well, and don't forget, he did not play well in this game.

And I think if you listen to, you know, Vanessa Richardson asked Alperin Shingun directly after the game, how are you guys able to kind of contain him?

And he said point blank, we were physical with him.

And I do wonder, if I were there tonight and I was in the Spurs locker room and I was able to ask Wimby some questions, the first thing I would ask him is if he thinks he played down to his competition tonight.

Because that's another thing I don't want to hear guys saying.

I'm guessing he didn't have that quote tonight.

I'm just guessing.

One more thing, not to interrupt you, Dave, but imagine a Rockets-Spurs game where they don't turn the ball over 15 plus times and they actually, they were shooting well tonight, but they couldn't hit anything in that first game.

It felt like Spurs were hitting everything in the first half and the Rockets kept turning the ball over and they were even doing that as they were trying to make their comeback.

They couldn't quite get over the hump.

And I was like, ah, is this going to be one of those games where they run out of gas just making the comeback?

But credit to them for making the plays down the stretch.

I'd like to see both teams play a clean game next week on Wednesday, and then let's see what happens then.