Michael Shapiro

They're only a half game back of

the Nuggets for the three spot, and that's on the opposite side of the bracket from OKC.

If you want to match up with the Nuggets, and by the way, the fourth and final meeting, which could determine the tiebreakers in a couple of weeks in Denver, the Nuggets have Jokic, the Nuggets have Valanchunas.

There's a lot of size.

Maybe that's a matchup.

And if you see them in the playoffs in a 2-3, that you need more size.

And so I'm just curious, like that's just me reading the tea leaves, but I wouldn't be surprised if it's not J.D.

Davison versus a veteran guard, but it's J.D.

Davison versus a potential big man.

What do you all think about that?

And he's unfortunately a name that people in Houston know well because he was a part of several of those Warriors-Rockets playoff series that never ended well in the 2010s.

So that's part of why, especially here, it feels like that he's been around for a while.

And the other thing, I don't really think they're looking at wings at all.

Like, I guess, you know, under Rafael Stone, they're always best player available.

But I think with DFS rounding into form, and they showed you tonight, they're still willing to trust Jason Tate in the right matchup.

I think they feel pretty good about their wings, as you said earlier, Michael, when they're at full strength.

So I think it's I think it's a guard or a big and reading between the tea leaves.

I think if it's if it's guards, they're pretty comfortable with JD.

It just comes down to, you know, we'll see exactly who the bigs are.

And at that point, it will be BPA.