Paulo Alves

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That's in the LaunchPod 790 link tree as well.

And you can hear me on a more frequent basis.

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For Paolo Alves, I'm Ben DuBose.

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Go Rockets!

Well, it's not necessarily just about the Spurs game, right?

It's kind of been an entire season, and even when we were on base doing 60 games, right?

You heard us here on the pod talk about how this team, like, this doesn't seem too sustainable, and this team doesn't seem to be able to just lock in on defense and shut down a team when they need to.

That's a big part of what your identity has to be when you're playing guys like...

For example, a man comes in who contributes a lot more on the defensive end than on the offensive end.

Throughout the season, you know, you had some highs, you had some lows, you had some injuries.

But at the end of the day, we've had plenty of evidence.

And like, what's the saying?

Like, if it looks like a duck and it swims like a duck and it quacks like a duck.

It's probably a duck, right?

If the Rockets defend like a mid-team and their offense is mid and everybody else besides KD and the men, I guess, who are elite, one offensively and one defensively,

are all playing mid and you lose to bad teams and you rarely win against good teams, then, well, your poll is just not that great, right?