Paulo Alves

So many of the low three games by volume were when Amin, Shingun, and Steven were playing extended minutes together, and so that's three of your five that are non-spacers.

Generally today, you only had one non-shooter out there, and Shingun even made a three today.

So I think when you have the pieces that they had today, you almost have to shoot threes at volume to have a chance, and kudos to Amin and the Rockets, they did.

Sorry for interrupting, Paolo.

You can go.

I was going to say, let's talk about the trade deadline a little bit.

OK, a couple of little things.

I'll save the J.D.

Davidson discussion for the end.

That ties into today's game as well.

But that's more about the buyout market, because I do think there's an interesting conversation to be had about, you know, is J.D.

better than a lot of the options that are out there on the buyout market if the Rockets simply play him?

We'll talk about that in a few minutes.

As far as bigger picture takeaways, you mentioned KD and the win now emphasis.

One thing I posted in the Rafael Stone press conference thread today on Clutch fans, I just wanted to remind people.

So the KD trade agreement was reached on June 22nd of last year.

On June 18th, I reported, and I think some other people did as well, but I reported this on Jackson Gatlin's show, Locked on Rockets, and I bumped it today.

The Rockets had made it clear that Fred Van Fleet was not going to be a part of the KD trade talks because they didn't think they were a good enough team for KD to be worthwhile if they lost Fred.

And lo and behold, three months later, just a freak accident and they lose spread.

So a lot of these people that are talking about the lack of alignment, oh, you bring in Kevin Durant, but then you don't go all in.