Dave Hardisty

So...

Just all in all, just a disappointing loss, but more symptoms of what we've seen so far this season.

You know, I just don't think you should stop Reed Shepard.

You're supposed to maximize the talent that you have on your team.

The Rockets have three guys who are supposed to be go-to scorers, and Reed Shepard is right now better at that than Iman Hanson is.

And so you have to spread those guys out to make sure you have always got two on the floor.

And to do that, it's a lot easier if one of them comes off the bench, and Shingun and KD are not going to come off the bench.

So you've got to manage 48 minutes.

You're not just managing the best starting lineup possible.

That made some timely threes.

But then again, he ended up shooting for the game 37%, which is not his average, but it's probably the best shooting we had from three in the game.

Even with all the misses in the second half, if you average all that out, he still had a decent game shooting line, right?

And I guess in the second half, what came into play was what we've talked about earlier again, which is when he's playing with Sengun and with KD, especially down the stretch when the responsibilities are higher, it seems like he's more hesitant to shoot.

He's less intentional about getting his own shots.

He's less crisp when he gets around screens.

He forces it a little bit less.

And he's not going to get, or he's not getting those same opportunities, partly because of how less intentional he is about carrying the ball in those spots.

But then again, bringing it back to Jabari Smith, which is what you were touching on, it's, yes, the rebounding that you talked about.

It's, yes, as much as people don't like talking about Jabari Smith as this elite defender one-on-one, which, you know, I can see why he's a good defender, he's not necessarily a shutdown guy, but he does help make up for a lot of Schengen's deficiencies that we're not, that we were projecting him to be that earlier on when he was first drafted.

And then he wasn't that good of a weak side defender coming into the league.