Ben DuBose

So I guess it's good in that it's not the same issue.

However, it is the other leg, as I understand it.

So now he's got issues with both legs and it's a very delicate balancing act.

moving forward and you know I was thinking of using him as a screener more because a that's the adjustment the Knicks made with uh Josh Hart or not the adjustment but just how they chose to attack the Spurs defense with Wimby and then secondly if a men's used as a screener it's in theory a little bit less juice than if you're asking him to be the on ball guy and go downhill so if he's managing an injury then that might make it a little bit easier on him

But these next two games, it's interesting because I had been told, coming out of the All-Star break, the Rockets internally felt like that in these first nine games, they needed to be at least 6-3.

Well, they're now 5-2.

So if they win the two against the Warriors and Blazers, they'll be 7-2.

So they're, you know, over the bar that they need to be at.

If they go 1-1, they at least meet the bar.

And if they go 0-2, which, God forbid, that'd be a bad outcome at home.

Exactly.

then they fall short.

But it's just, for me, it's just how balls to the wall, pardon the expression, do they go for these two games at home on a back-to-back with guys managing these injuries, knowing how difficult the schedule is going to be next week.

I don't envy Ime Udoka.

This is going to be, you know, a tricky couple of games.

I mean, they're more talented on paper than who they're going up against.

But I don't know, to me, like these next two games,

These are games where you really need Kevin Durant and Alper and Shingun to stand out and be stars because they're the two guys who, to my knowledge, don't have any nagging injuries.

And on paper, they should be better than anyone playing for the Warriors or the Trailblazers, especially with Steph unavailable.

Yeah, although he might be back.