Ben DuBose

I didn't see much of that tonight.

And I think that's why he may kind of stuck with him.

And then it paid off in a big way in that fourth quarter when he stepped up big finish tonight with 21 points was a team high game high plus 15.

This is another one of those games.

We've seen three or so of them this year, maybe four where Reed Shepard kind of gives you that star like vision like he he is capable of more than he's shown this year.

Yeah, absolutely.

And, you know, it's funny, you look at this tonight, the Spurs go 11 of 25 from three in the first half, three of 25 from three in the second half.

I don't want to say they got lucky in the second half because they got very unlucky in the first half.

The truth is somewhere in the middle, the Spurs have not shot well from three lately.

So I'm not going to say they got lucky there.

But, you know, on what Adam was talking about with Steven Adams, I am very concerned about this being, you know, I think this could be months.

And tonight you look at it, you know, the Rockets,

where they beat you is they just kill you on the boards.

They get so many more shot attempts.

Tonight, the Spurs took 105 shots to the Rockets' 83.

The Rockets had a maybe 10, 12 free throw advantage, but that doesn't make up for that kind of gap.

They lost the rebounding battle, 57-55.

They lost the turnover battle, 14-9.

The difference in three-point shots was massive.

But their defense was hung in there, and they were solid consistently tonight as far as making shots.