Michael Shapiro

don't do him justice.

He's a guy who you see his value by how the team performs when he's on the floor and what he means as a connector and a communicator on both ends.

And this is why, you know, it's a small sample.

We're talking about two games, but his entire sample this year is small.

So it's all we have.

And so these two games, he's been good.

I think tonight's 23 minutes is the most he's played yet with the Rockets.

So it seems the ankle is getting better to me by the eye test.

It seems he's moving better.

And honestly,

You know, this is why the Rockets didn't make a panic trade at the deadline using DFS as salary filler, which, you know, being hard capped at the first apron, that was all they could realistically do if they wanted to make a trade.

Look, if you believe in this guy and clearly they did, there's a reason they targeted him as basically their Dylan replacement in free agency.

He didn't even start playing until Christmas and there was no training camp.

There's no preseason.

It would be irresponsible to just, you know, give up on the guy and say, yeah, you know, forget what I thought before.

After just five weeks when he didn't even have a training camp, didn't even have a preseason to say, yeah, whatever.

I think he's washed.

We're done.

I mean, I get why fans are alarmed because, you know, there should be a sense of urgency with, you know, a team with a 37-year-old Kevin Durant.

But maybe the best course of action is just to trust that, hey, all that scouting you did in the offseason, targeting DFS as, you know, an ideal fit, just stick with that.