Ben DuBose

That's not to say that they're the core four long term.

I mean, hopefully Reed Shepard can break into that tier and then some.

I'm just saying for this particular season, those are the four.

They're almost always going to start assuming they're healthy.

So with the attention those guys draw, whoever is in that fifth spot needs to be able to hit open shots.

And if they can't, the entire offense is going to bog down, as we've seen too often the last two and a half months.

And so when Tari's that fifth guy, and he's shooting sub-15% from three for more than a month, I mean, it's tough to survive with.

And I think that's ultimately what...

what made the change.

And the other thing is that, you know, they said he was still competing defensively.

But Torrey's a guy, you mentioned the frustration late in the game tonight on that handle turnover to address some comments in the chat.

Yes, the Rockets absolutely should have called timeout.

I was stunned that they didn't.

They had two timeouts and didn't end up using both of them.

So if you ever get that late in the game, you know, personally, I'm not a huge fan of fouling up three that early.

I would rather wait

to foul up three until closer to five six seconds because even if the Rockets hadn't thrown away the inbounds I mean if they had done anything other than go two of two from the free throw line the Heat are going to have a chance to win the game themselves so I would have rather waited a little bit on the initial foul to begin with but then certainly if you have multiple timeouts use one of them then to get more organized but Tari is the guy who made the turnover I do you know

Imei, in his pregame quote, or postgame, that was the first time he addressed it on the record after the Atlanta game, he mentioned wanting Tari to relax.

Tari, to me, as this slump has continued, seems to be a guy that's losing his composure a little bit.

He's very frustrated, and it's starting to affect him in other areas.