Paulo Alves

But if I had to bet, I think at some point in the future, he'll be back.

There's just so many reasons.

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All right, last topic, and we'll be quick because we're already almost an hour in.

I'm curious your thoughts on the last few games and whether it changes your evaluation of Alper and Shingun in any way.

Because it's always interesting when you talk about a high usage player like that to see what the team looks like if they have to go away for a few games.

And certainly the offense overall has taken a dip.

And I guess what's changed for me, and certainly, you know, I was already high on Alper and Shingun, but you feel his absence.

I think the shooting dip, I don't so much attribute to Shingun's absence, maybe a little bit, but I think that's, you know, trying a little too hard to have a one-size-fits-all explanation for what amounts to randomness.

The Rockets have had a lot of really good looks from three the past few games that just aren't going in.

There was that one possession at the end of the Blazers game.

You can find it on the Clutch Fans Twitter page where they had like five or six good looks on a single possession and missed them all.

Sometimes that's going to happen over 82.

They're getting good looks.

They're in rhythm.

They're just not going in.

I think they will go in as the sample increases.

You can look at Jabari Smith.

You know, he shot one of seven from three.

in the two games that he played terribly in Dallas and Portland.