Dave Hardisty

But other than that, in terms of how he looked,

I thought he was very effective.

There was a reason that Ime Udoka played in that many minutes, let him finish the game.

He was Steven Adams, and that's going to be big because without Alper and Shingun, I mean, hopefully the fact that you're going against lesser teams moving forward, the next three games, the Trailblazers and the Kings, these are lesser teams than the Suns on paper.

Hopefully the Rockets can sort this out because they're going to miss Shingun more than anything as a playmaker.

He just soaks up so many reps that there's just a trickle-down effect, and it leads to everyone else being a little insecure in their roles and not knowing exactly what they're supposed to do because they're all being asked to freelance a little bit more.

And some of the super awkward possessions, like Tari at the end, it's someone trying to do too much because they don't necessarily know

where the structured offense is going to come from and if they can trust it, especially in the night.

Now, I know KD made the last three, but if he's one of 11, it's only natural for some of his teammates to say, hey, maybe I should try to do something.

Maybe he doesn't have the juice tonight.

And one other thing, if you get Reed going, that could make it a little bit easier to potentially do the five-out lineups with Jabari at the five and experiment with those.

I saw some talk during the game about, oh, why are the Rockets force-feeding Clint Capella?

Why don't they go five-out?

Well, the issue is that you've got to have five players.

So sometimes...

It's easier said than done in terms of how does Ime Udoka fill out 240 minutes during a game.

So if you get your other guys going, then maybe you can tap into Jabari at the five and experiment with that a little bit.

It's not like – well, I don't know.

The Trailblazers do have some size and bulk, so we'll see if that's the matchup.

But I think certainly the Kings and the Bulls are teams you could try that against.