Dave Hardisty

And, you know, to shift the conversation a little bit to the defensive side, because you guys have heard me the entire season.

To me, the offense is, you know, good enough as long as defense steps up to something close to the caliber that it was last season, right?

And Reid was a big part of why the defense is for, but the defense with this team is for not just because of Reid, but because it seems like the main, like Reid, KD, and Shingun, and I'm not excluding KD from this conversation, he has some responsibility on this one.

well, take turns just falling asleep defensively.

And the way the Rockets try to defend and the way the Rockets try to emulate the kill switch system that they were running last season, it requires everybody to be locked in and everybody to be high effort running, closing out and compensating for when those guys switch.

And it just seems like guys are taking turns having breakdowns defensively.

And it feels like when you watch it play by play, you could kind of point your finger at anybody because at any given time,

I'm one of those guys having those troubles.

And it really goes to show why this team seems to be able to get themselves in a hole against anything like this.

OKC team should not have any business being competitive with the Rockets, even with the defense being as good as it is.

Offensively, the Rockets should not be giving up 106, I believe, 106 points to this team that has basically nobody that can create their own shot at this moment, right?

And the Rockets from last season will not have done that.

And so, given, you know, that being said, I do want to give credit to Shingun for the second half.

A lot of the issues that Rockets have had, other than way of spalling a sleep, has been effort-wise.

Like, I cannot, you know, I cannot count the amount of times that a guy is, you know, Shingun is in a position to help on a drive, right?

And he just doesn't contest a shot at the rim that's happening right in front of him, as you would expect any other student in the league to do.

And this game, especially in the second half earlier on, it was a little bit rougher.

I don't know if somebody challenged them personally at pass time or whatever it may have been.

And a lot of it comes from, you know, not wanting to burn Shingun or whatever it may be, but Shingun has, you know, limitations as far as his length and as far as his athleticism goes.

His best ability is being smarter than other players, thinking faster.