Dave Hardisty

That was when Katie and Shingun were hyping him up, and Reed had that dance that made for the gift that went viral everywhere.

It seemed to be a good matchup for Reed.

To me, that's the lowest hanging fruit, if not Reed, Jabari, and Tari.

But I just think the bottom line in the short term, there's a big scoring and playmaking void without Alper and Shingun.

With Steven Adams, you're going to be fine defensively.

I mean, it felt like against the Mavs, they fell apart on both sides of the ball.

With Steven, and it's true even with Shingun, Steven is the guy that's really important to raising the defensive floor of this team.

Now the question is offensively, you know, without your second all-star, who's going to step up, fill that void,

Maybe it's Reed and Amin, maybe it's Jabari and Tari, but that's going to be the question.

Who outside of KD can they get going and producing at a big level?

If they can find at least one more guy, then yeah, these are games coming up that they should win.

Welcome into the show, guys.

We are ecstatic to say Rockets get a huge win in Denver, 115 to 101.

This was round two, really round three for the season, but round two in Denver.

Rockets had just played there on Monday and lost a tough one in overtime.

This was a completely different Rockets team than what we saw in that Monday game.

And it was a completely different shift in a variety of ways.

Kind of fascinating.

I'm here with Ben Dubose of Rockets Wire on USA Today and Clutch fans.

And Ben, I mean, there's a lot to digest here.