Amen Thompson scored a career high 33 points to lead the Houston Rockets to a victory in Boston over the Celtics. Dave DuFour and Es Baraheni react to Houston’s big win, Amen Thompson’s star potential, Bradley Beal’s no trade clause, and the death of the dunk contest . Then, Keith Parish from “Grits and Grinds stops by to talk about the Grizzlies recent schedule, their new offense and Ja Morant’s bad game against the Knicks.Host: Dave DuFourWith: Es Baraheni & Keith ParishExecutive Producer: Andrew SchlechtAudio Producer: Grayson MoodySubmit your questions to The Athletic NBA Daily mailbag: https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/5939460/2024/11/25/nba-podcast-mailbag-athletic-daily/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Good morning and welcome to the NBA Daily for January 28th, 2025. Coming up, the Rockets got a huge win in Boston. Bradley Beal does not want to go to Chicago under any circumstances. And we got Keith Parrish on the show to talk about his Grizzlies, even though they got smacked by the Knicks. Good morning, everybody. Good morning, S. A little bit of NBA Daily Curse sprinkled on Keith Parrish.
It had to happen. Keith is going to come up after the break to talk about the Grizzlies and the season that they've been having. S, the other big game last night, Rocket Celtics delivered. The Rockets are only in good basketball games. The Rockets pick up a big win thanks to a men Thompson's best game as an NBA player. He hits a game winning shot. I mean, start to finish.
This was about a men Thompson. We can get to the rest of it, but we have been very enamored, I would say, with the men Thompson. And this game is exactly why he was doing everything.
The Rockets are the – not the story of the season, but one of the stories of the season. And you can talk about their impressive win over Cleveland, two wins over Cleveland. You can talk about this Celtics game. But this week has made me question just how far the Rockets can go because we've had conversations over the last couple weeks of like, OK, well, I think –
The Rockets will have questions in the postseason. Who's their guy? Who's their guy? Can Jalen Green be that guy? Can who this, who that? I think a men Thompson can be that guy, because if there is a world in which this guy is dominating defensively, one of the best athletes in the league. He's doing it on the defensive end, but also finding ways to win offensively.
He had 33 points tonight, which was a career high, tallied it up last time against Cleveland with a 23-point triple-double. So he's just dominating and finding ways to win without the jump shot. So my question to you – But that's the problem. No, this is the question I have. It's like he does everything else so well. Like, how much further can he go without the jumper?
Does he break conventional wisdom of, like, how far a star can go? Because, like, the last guy to do that is what? Like, Giannis.
I mean, it's Giannis. But that's the thing. Giannis has elite skills. length, elite, I mean, just elite size. I mean, he, you know, he's a seven footer. I think if, if a man Thompson is seven feet tall, we're treating him like he's Giannis. Right. The problem is for, for a wing, the limitation in what he's going to be able to do as far as like the ceiling for his offense is,
It's always going to be about that jump shot, specifically off the dribble, right? Like the guys who can create their own shot. I mean, Houston, Jalen Green, right? Yeah, it's operation good. Dylan Brooks and and those guys are standing on the side. We're going to get Dylan Brooks. But those guys, they got to stand and wait their play finishers.
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