Paulo Alves

Yet in Houston, he had some really big threes in that second half comeback against the Suns when, by the way, Calo, they broke the curse of 13.

You had pointed out a few days ago that the Rockets had never come back from 13-plus down this season, and then they did.

So hat tip to you.

You reversed jinxed that comeback against the Suns into reality.

So let me just interrupt you there.

Yeah, absolutely.

They have not been great at coming back from larger deficits this season.

They finally got one.

Unfortunately, they couldn't get two.

Nearly came back after trailing most of the way in Portland, but couldn't finish that one off.

Yeah.

To this point, they haven't had that dog in them.

It feels like when they fall behind that they sort of shrug their shoulders.

Not everybody, but there's a little bit of a here we go again vibe.

This isn't our night.

And so you'd like to see them play with a little bit more of a chip on their shoulder, which they've done a little bit more of late.

They did come back against the Suns.

They were literally a tenth of a second from doing the same thing in Portland.

So

Ideally, you don't want to fall behind to begin with, but it's going to happen sometimes in the NBA.