Paulo Alves

But a large part of it was the possessions where we got stops were mostly they settled into isos and KDM put the clamps on Wemby.

So that's a real concern and I hope that it locks in for the playoffs.

But even before the playoffs, getting the second or third seed is key and there is something to be said about the stretch of games that you play before you head into the playoffs and having some steam as you get into the playoffs and

You know, having the widespread belief among the team that you are an elite team and you only get that truly by winning a bunch of games in a row or by, you know, winning a bunch of games against truly good teams like the Thunder, like the Wolves when they have Ant, like the Nuggets when they have Jokic, you know, like the Spurs to some extent.

But I wasn't really impressed by how the Spurs played last night.

So yeah, that's my kind of overarching theme about where the rockets are.

I guess there's a couple of things that we can touch on.

I don't know if you want to get in, you know, bigger picture things before we get into some more specific players.

100%.

Those guys, you know what you're going to get for the most part from basically every other guy on the team.

I guess besides Tariq.

But those guys are where the ceiling is going to come from, especially offensively.

Which is why I never really bought into the blaming Jabari part of it because...

As much as I will struggle to say this, credit Matt Moore on Twitter.

He put it perfectly.

You know, Tavares is the type of guy that will have, you know, a scoring outburst and have a consistent 16, 18 points for a stretch, and he'll have his pop-off games.

But when those happen, you're winning already, right?

And...

He's part of the reason why you're winning, but you don't notice it as much as when he goes one for eight and the teams are the overall struggling to shoot.

And, you know, those, I guess you kind of notice those more.