Dave Hardisty
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Awesome.
That is Ben DeBose.
You can follow him on Twitter, at Ben DeBose, and I believe on Blue Sky, same handle, right, Ben?
As well, you can read him on Rockets Wire at USA Today and on Clutch Fans.
Ben, appreciate you doing this.
We'll be back, Grizzlies, Monday, correct?
Yep.
All right.
We will see you all then.
Thanks, everybody, for the support.
Yeah, this was a massive win.
And full disclosure, I am not in Houston.
If my backdrop looks different, it's because I'm in Las Vegas for a few days, where, by the way, I did place a bet on the Rockets at plus $1,600 to win the NBA title today.
No, I'm not necessarily expecting it to cash, but I do think plus $1,600 is a little bit of an overcorrection for a team that started the year at plus $900.
So...
mostly for fun but we'll see where it goes and i am going to take it as a positive omen that the game after i placed that bet the rockets go out and take care of business against the spurs team that entered at at number two in the western conference and one of many reasons i wanted to bring adam in today adam you've had some legendary rants against victor wimbanyama in recent weeks so
Before we get into the heroes for the Rockets, most notably Reed Shepard, to a lesser extent Jabari Smith Jr., which some huge plays in that fourth quarter to help the Rockets rally back from 16 down.
How fun was it, Adam, to see the Rockets in Houston storm back against a Wembley-led Spurs team and make the plays when it mattered late?
Yeah, and I think it's particularly noteworthy that Reed has looked really good against the Spurs and the Nuggets.
And in contrast to that first game against the Spurs back in the NBA Cup in San Antonio when he made some tough shots but he got exposed defensively, he held up much better defensively