Michael Pina

grab offensive rebounds at i mean they lead the league still when he's off the court i think but when he's on the court it's like 45 or something it's just absolute monstrosity um you can't deal with it so it's just a huge loss and it almost changes like i don't know i don't want to say it changes their identity i think they'll play similarly because they have no choice um but

He's huge.

And if he's out until late March or April, where will Houston be in the standings then?

Will they be in the play-in?

If you're in the play-in, I'm sorry, you're probably not going to go to the NBA Finals.

That'll be exceptionally difficult.

So...

I'm more pessimistic today than I was even a week ago before he fell on his ankle.

And there's all these other things that we can get into about how, why they are weird, but just zooming out, that is really what my focus is on.

And yeah, there's a lot to like, but there's just a lot of flaws with this team that I just don't know will, I don't think they will translate well into playoff basketball.

I think that's totally fair.

And going back to the comment you made about Fred,

I think obviously where you see him missing is the high turnover rate for sure.

The crunch time offense, which I'd love to talk about more because I think that that is one of their great Achilles heels.

And just really problematic when I went through this morning and watched a ton of their crunch time possessions offensively.

Tell me what you saw.

I mean, it's just such a mess.

It's both a mess.

It's like bumper car basketball.

And then also, it is so formulaic and so predictable.