Zach Lowe

He kicked it to Jabari Smith Jr.

in the corner who missed a wide open three.

Great process, didn't make the shot.

And it's like, why can't we do that every time?

And they have a vibe of like, I always remember year one of the LeBron heat when they were trying to figure out how to use Wade and LeBron and like first world problems.

The delta between the stuff they would run out of timeouts and the stuff they would run in the flow of the game was so wide.

They would run this sophisticated five-man stuff out of timeouts, and they'd do it once, and then the game would be going on.

It was like they didn't know how to do any of that in the flow of the game.

The Rockets have that vibe to them, and I'm like, can we just bottle that?

They had another possession where after a Lakers make—it was in the first quarter, I think—

I'm in Thompson ran like ran sprint dribbled up the floor.

I think a Kogi set a screen for him with 20 on the shot clock.

I paused it.

It was like 20 on the shot clock after a make the Lakers were not back on defense.

They were not set.

They had nobody back at the rim.

Thompson got ahead of steam against canard and laid the ball in.

It's like, Oh, we're allowed to do that.

We're allowed to like do something with 20 on the shot clock and go fast.

Like, yeah, do more.