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What happened in the Rockets vs. Cavs game?
Good morning and welcome to the NBA Daily for January 23rd, 2025. Coming up, Rockets Cavs had a crazy finish. We had Pistons making it into the top six. Hey, S, look at you. And we went long with Fred Katz on OG Ananobi and Jimmy Butler's fit in Phoenix. Good morning, everybody. Good morning, S. Morning. Fired up. Oh, my God. From Cavs Rockets. Yeah. What a finish. What a fun game.
How did the referees influence the game outcome?
I mean, listen, this is one of the times where, yes, the referees were involved in the finish. Yeah. But it made it very exciting, I think, like in a certain way, like it was chaotic. There was some theater to it. There was some theater. Yeah. Well, it was crazy. Break it down for us because there was a lot that happened. Sure. We had challenge calls. We had fouls that, I mean, I thought... The foul against Jared Allen, I thought that was going to get reversed. So give me the rundown. Just break down the last minute and I think six seconds, right? Because that's when the chaos started.
Yeah, so obviously the Rockets went cold in that fourth quarter. That's what allowed the Cavs to storm back. I think they went like five minutes without scoring the ball. And so a couple of big Fred VanVleet threes got them into it. They kept the Cavs at bay. And it was like a minute six left. Shangoon finishes over Jared Allen, then pushes Jared Allen over. They challenged that call. The refs determined nothing happened there. They're like, all right, no play, whatever. On the next possession down, Allen fouls Shangoon on a loose ball. Two free throws for the lead. Shangoon goes to knock down both free throws, makes them both cold-blooded, right? Up two. And then on the other end, the Rockets foul Darius Garland on a three. Tari Eason steps in his landing space.
They actually upgrade the foul to a flagrant foul. So three free throws plus the ball. But it should have been at that point. It's like Darius Garland. Great free throw shooter. This is the end of the game. But no, Garland misses two of his three free throws. Cavs try to win it, lose it. And the Rockets survive. Insane.
Tari Eason. Tari Eason running off the court. Like he stole something. Yeah.
Like the Eric Fisher game winner. Right.
It was amazing. Like, honestly, like this was one of these games where, and we've, we've talked about the rockets a lot. I mean, we've been really high on them. They're a lot of fun to watch. I mean, Thompson, by the way, makes a clutch steal at the end of this game and, and, and creates this win this team. Like they have this, this vibe, you know, Sam Amick has compared them to the bad boy Pistons a little bit, but in games like this, like they, There's something about the competitiveness that they have. The chip isn't just negative. There's a fire that they play with, and especially defensively down the stretch. And that's part of why Tari Eason makes this mistake. I mean, this is an excellent closeout on a small guard, and this is what he's taught to do. I think Ime Odoka talked about this a little bit after the game. Yeah, you don't want to foul there, but they did everything kind of right on the play where he makes the foul.
Yeah, he said Coach Adoka actually said like, you know, you would rather a fly by close out there than a hard close out, which is part of kind of the the minutia of closing out players who are such great at like three point shooting, especially with not a lot of time left on the clock. Right. You would rather have a fly by contest than a hard close out, because at the end of the day, like they're shooting that shot. Right. With Garland, I think the interesting thing. When Eason was going for that, he kind of leaned in a little bit to try to draw the foul, which is what most players do now when they are down three, because they know that teams are typically going to try to foul up three or they're just, you know, there's going to be a situation there where like there could be a foul called and refs are quick to call that foul. So I don't know.
It was it was a crazy ending. I think from the Rockets perspective, I guess the question I have moving forward with this game is like, They got thrown out – like the Cavs threw a zone out at them for five minutes and they struggled to break that zone even though I think Shangun is like a clear zone breaker.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What happened in the Rockets vs. Cavs game?
0:07–0:45
2
How did the referees influence the game outcome?
0:45–9:03
3
What is the current status of Jimmy Butler's suspension?
9:03–12:04
4
How are the Pistons performing this season?
12:04–13:54
5
What makes Cade Cunningham a potential All-Star?
13:54–18:32
6
Why is Isaiah Stewart's performance noteworthy?
18:32
7
What challenges do the Mavs face with injuries?
14:39
8
What are the implications of the upcoming trade deadline?
9:03–30:36