Zach Lowe

There was one session last night where Shingun had the ball at the left elbow extended and the rockets ran a split action with Reed Shepard and Jabari Smith jr.

Screening for each other.

And because Reed Shepard is like kind of a red alert shooter, the Lakers got a little freaked out.

Two people chased him.

Jabari Smith cut into the lane for an easy little short jumper.

And I was like, Oh wow.

They just ran real offense.

Like the rockets just ran an actual play.

But like I,

I do think the Lakers are in some danger here of being the first team ever to blow a three Oh lead somewhere in Los Angeles.

Bill Simmons just perked up a little bit at that.

But here's the thing.

It's almost hard to get, I think, probably both of our brains around the idea of this young Rockets team who blew Game 3 in historically bad fashion is prone to some mistakes, obviously, of youth.

It's not exactly like teaming with depth with all these injuries.

And Shams reported today Durant is going to miss Game 6.

Yeah.

is going to actually win two more high-pressure games against LeBron and Reeves and the Lakers.

It just feels like LeBron is going to think out a way to manufacture a 98-94 win in one of these games.

Lawler's Law, baby.

after canard coming back to earth in the last two games.