Dave Hardisty

I think they have seven losses and the Rockets have 11.

I mean, that's four games of separation and they come to Houston in in a week.

We'll see if all prevention is back for that game, because that's right in the middle of the 10 to 14 days that he may said.

But I'm just saying on paper, the Thunder are not running away and hiding the way it looked like they were a month or so ago.

And I went and looked it up.

In his last seven games going into tonight, he was shooting just over 33% from three.

And tonight he was one of four.

Now, the plus minus was favorable, but again, I think tonight was largely a game where the Rockets just benefited from more organization.

Like so much of the story, the first 30 minutes of that game when the Rockets just turned the ball over like crazy was the Rockets without Shingun being very indecisive about what they should do and just any sort of organization and conventional structure benefited them when they weren't throwing the ball away.

So the plus minus grades out favorably.

favorably, but in terms of Reed's impact, he needs to hit threes at a higher clip, at least for the year two, 21 year old version to, to have a ton of value.

I have confidence he will, but tonight one of four, his last seven games, a little over 33%.

So I'm going to guess he's right at about 31, 32% in his last eight games.

That's not dreadful.

It's not terrible.

He's still respected.

So he provides value as a floor spacer, but.

it's not such clear value that you're going to play him no matter what.

And I think that's why in the second half, even though the plus-minus was favorable, that's why you saw Aaron Holiday getting some of those high-leverage minutes because, hey, he gives you some of that same organization ability without the downside defensively.

And so that's what it's going to come down to.