Paulo Alves

And he's widely regarded as a star now.

But that doesn't mean you get to go to, you know, you get to behave like a superstar on defense.

Because to be honest, you're good on offense, but you're not good enough for the team to survive.

If that's the attitude that you're going to be having.

And, you know, there's nothing better than to look at it with your own eyes.

Not going to, I guess, publicize any type of websites here, but just Google NBA replays.

Click the first link, click the second half and watch it back.

Because I did watch it back because I said something about this two games ago and I got flamed on Twitter for it.

And so I decided, OK, this time I'm going to rewatch.

This is the vibe that I got last night.

I'm going to re-watch the game and see if it was real.

And it is real.

And you might say that the comeback was largely due to Reed Shepard's scoring outburst and the Spurs going cold from three.

Well, a large part of it was also because the Rockets were getting stopped and the Spurs were getting cold from three.

But at the same time, obviously, Shingun had those breakdowns, had that sequence of just really terrible possessions defensively after the jump ball.

He goes to the bench, they go six minutes without scoring, the Rockets are now, the team's now basically tied.

He comes back in, and the only possessions, like, you can separate possessions into two types.

The ones where there was a defensive breakdown in the easy basket, and 80% of those in that stretch, post that six-minute scoring drought, are mostly on Shingu.

Or the other ones are ones where the Spurs decided to go ISO mode and settle for a jump shot in ISO, and the Rockers were doing a very good job defending them.

And then the last part of why this game went really well was because we had KD and the man on Wemby and having him settle for jump shots, and he did for a large part of it, and the Spurs offense didn't have the type of movement that they typically do to get Wemby his angles to get to the rim.