Jalen Green blasts Grizzlies for 42 | Cade Cunningham in the Garden
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What happened in the Rockets vs. Grizzlies game?
Hello and welcome to the NBA Daily for January 14th, 2025. Coming up, the Grizzlies and Rockets gave us another banger. The Warriors are really bad and I don't even know if they should make a trade. And the Knicks lost to our Pistons. How about that? Good morning, everybody. Good morning, S. We're going to dig into the Pistons being two games over 500. Later on in the show with our guy Hunter Patterson. Yeah, I mean, you know, it's funny that you really got me thinking about the Pistons in our big preview before the season. And you've been on them this entire time. This is like a victory lap show for you. And it's amazing. They just went two games over 500. It's not like they're like first place.
Yeah, exactly. Yeah.
How did Jalen Green perform in the game?
They are just out of the playoffs. They are just out of the top six, which I think is very compelling. They're a fun team. They had a great game tonight, which we'll get to later on. But we got to start. I mean, I think the Houston Rockets right now probably feel like they own the Memphis Grizzlies. They pick up their third win of the season against the Grizzlies. They're now 3-0 in the season. 121-18 is a close game. The Rockets had to mount a comeback late. Jalen Green had a ridiculous game, putting up 42 points, and he almost had, if he had finished this dunk on Zach Giddey, it would have been the dunk of the year. And instead, he gets called for a foul on something that, I don't know, in my opinion, you just don't call those or it's an offensive foul.
But either way, another great game for the Rockets where they just show how tough they are, man. They just do not stop coming.
What are the strengths of the Rockets' defense?
Yeah, they're, they're incredible defensively. And I loved what a man Thompson did against John Moran in that fourth quarter, making life hell for him. Like the point of attack defense, he was just taking on the assignment one-on-one. And so I thought that he had such a good game to Mount that comeback. Like their defensive effort was so important him in the dunker spot, what he was able to do offensively to like, he connects together so many things for that rockets team. You think about the short roll area where Shang-Goon is so good. And so Shang-Goon will catch it in the short roll, throw it up to a man, a man's there for the lob. Defensively, he's kind of quarterbacking their defense at the point of attack. So like he glues together so many things that they want to do. I want to highlight Jalen Green, though, because I feel like people are pretty hard on Jalen Green, right? We could agree on that. Yeah, I agree.
And so this is a guy that has tons of expectations because he's a high lottery pick, has had months where he's looked exactly like the star that people thought he would. March and April, Jalen Green is well-known in Rockets territory, but he's doing it right now. On a very good team. And he's been doing it for the last like 10, 15 games. He's been putting together a lot of great games. I think he's been great as a decision maker, selecting his spots, picking and choosing when he wants to be a score versus a playmaker. all of this is coming together for him on a good team. And so I just, I feel like we need to shout him out when he is playing well, because like he's a guy who gets dogged on a little bit too much when it comes to the Rockets and what potential they have to be good in the playoffs and whatnot.
And his defense gets overlooked. The guy makes plays defensively, whether it's, you know, getting a steal, getting a deflection, blocking shots, which actually is one of the things that he's sneakily good at. But speaking of a men Thompson, 19 points, 13 rebounds, four offensive rebounds, four assists, two steals, five blocks. That guy is a Swiss army knife, you know, and we were watching, we were also watching Knicks and Pistons. We were talking about his brother, Asar. And I mentioned Asar might be able to be like a superpower, Josh Hart, right? More athletic, bigger, longer, faster, you know, maybe more skilled. I don't, I don't know. But just could he do that? And then I look at him in and it's like,
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
What happened in the Rockets vs. Grizzlies game?
0:07–1:03
2
How did Jalen Green perform in the game?
1:03–1:57
3
What are the strengths of the Rockets' defense?
1:57–4:35
4
How is Cade Cunningham developing for the Pistons?
4:35–5:58
5
What are the Knicks’ struggles against the Pistons?
5:58–8:50
6
What's going wrong with the Warriors this season?
8:50–26:52