Dave Hardisty

Jason Kidd is a good coach, but some of it, man, Cooper Flagg at 19 years old is really good already.

Not at Toyota Center.

The ones in Dallas.

Yeah.

But it feels like they have so many bigs.

You know, Lively basically has a gap year, but, you know, Gafford's good.

The cease, the backup they had tonight.

At times they've had, who's the other big that I'm forgetting?

Dwight Powell over the years has been serviceable, although he's passed his prime now.

PJ, although he left this game early, the Mavs just have so many bigs that seem to give the Rockets problems for whatever reason.

Yeah, KD and Shingun between them had 15 assists to just three turnovers.

And even on a night that their shots weren't falling, they did make good decisions, including down the stretch of the game when Dallas got this really tight.

You had the Shingun feed to a man and then...

the great vision by KD at the end to find Tari.

It worried me when KD got trapped and picked up the ball near midcourt, and then he had the vision to spot a wide-open Tari, and that was that.

So say what you will, the big guns couldn't finish tonight, but they did facilitate well.

They did...

They always carry a certain amount of gravity, but they made the right plays off of that.

And so you have to tip your hat that they gutted it out.

And that's something that, you know, this is the end of the month.