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Jalen Green blasts Grizzlies for 42 | Cade Cunningham in the Garden
14 Jan 2025
The Houston Rockets beat the Memphis Grizzlies thanks to 42 points from Jalen Green. Dave DuFour and Es Baraheni discuss the Rockets big win and their place in the West, the Warriors abysmal lost to the tanking Raptors, and the Knicks side of their loss to Detroit. Then, the Athletic’s Hunter Patterson joins the show to breakdown the Pistons path to success, Cade Cunningham’s growth, and Detroit’s trade deadline plans.Host: Dave DuFourWith: Es Baraheni & Hunter PattersonExecutive 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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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.
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.
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.
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