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The Houston Rockers were coming off and absolutely brutal loss to the San Antonio Spurs a couple
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They bounced back in a big way tonight with a very solid victory over the Toronto
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We're breaking it all down on the locked on Rockets postcast.
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Welcome to Locked on Rockets postcast here on the Locked on Rockets YouTube page.
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You might be looking at this face if you're watching the YouTube video or watching it live
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Jackson is still here.
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I'm going to lay it all out for you.
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We did these last season over on the locked on sports Houston page.
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We are just now getting the go ahead to get going on these now late in the season and then
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of course into the playoffs.
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Thank you for joining us.
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We will be live when the game ends.
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We did these last season and the season before.
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So I'm happy to be back being able to do these down the stretch run here for the Houston
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Rockets and then into the playoffs as well.
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I am, if you don't know me, a lifelong Houstonian Rockets fan my entire life.
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I want to see them win as much as you and I get just as mad and as angry and happy in
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So like I mentioned, we will be here after every single game, about a 15 10 to 15 minute
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show, breaking down what we saw on the floor tonight for your Houston Rockets and to
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me, this is really a tale of a couple of things in this game and the biggest thing in
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the game, the biggest X factor was it's time to reveal who made the biggest under the
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radar impact with today's X factor.
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How about this as a whole with the basketball team tonight?
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You know what happened in the fourth quarter, they stopped turning the basketball over.
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If there is one thing and I know again, and we've not done post cast shows this year,
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so I've not given a ton of my opinions, I used to of course be on the radio for years
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and I don't do radio anymore, I do other things in life flying planes.
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But now I don't get to give my opinions all the time, it's good to be back to be able
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I think one of the most frustrating things for me this season of watching the Houston
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Rockets at times is how careless they can be with the basketball and they were awful
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in the first half I thought at times with in terms of taking care of the basketball.
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Eleven first half turnovers, the fourth quarter is where it changed in the basketball game.
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It's like they, you know, kind of flip the switch and remembered, hey, we're at home,
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we have to take care of business, we're coming off of a brutal loss, our coach called
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us out once again, which isn't a bad thing by any means and they went out there and they
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stopped turning the ball over and they scored more points and they've locked down on defense
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and made sure that Toronto remembered that hey, you're on the road, you're not going
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to get an easy victory.
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They've been one of the better road teams in the NBA this season, they weren't going
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to get that tonight here in Houston.
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That to me, if I'm looking for, there might not been an X factor in terms of, I shouldn't
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say that there wasn't a player that was an X factor, we'll give out our player the game
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here in just a bit and you could probably guess who that's going to be tonight for his
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overall performance.
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You know, if I was looking for maybe a player X factor in this one, a Jabari tonight
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it was a lot more aggressive.
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I thought he had good shot selection.
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He wasn't as timid, you know, he did have a cup, of course, he's always going to have
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a couple clunkers here and there in terms of his shot selection that you don't love.
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But overall, 23 points for Jabari tonight, eight of 14 from the field, three of seven from
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The line had four rebounds, couple to assist and only turn the ball over him and then
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there was a men Thompson as well, 23 for a men, six of 10 from the field.
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From the three point line, one of one, 10 to 14 from the charity striped and then six
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assist and three rebounds and he only turned it over three times in this basketball game
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tonight, which you can live with in his almost 39 minutes of play.
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So I guess again, if I'm giving it to players, it's that X factor in terms of the game and
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what they did, it's going to come down to this.
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We know that they're gearing out for it.
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They're going to get the Lakers a couple to get the Western conference.
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It's just an absolute mess and it's a beautiful mess because it is going to have you
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on the edge of your seat every single night.
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If you're looking for enjoyment in terms of, I don't know if you're going to call it enjoyment
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as a fan of the team, but painstaking, agonizing night to night, scoreboard watching, that's
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what you're going to do.
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Rockets with the victory pick up win number 40 of the season, by the way, 40 and 24.
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They are, of course, still in that three seed at the moment, just ahead of Minnesota
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who they have that tie breaker over.
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But so much this can change.
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I mean, we're talking about a team that's got 24 losses, the seven seed just down there,
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a couple of two and a half games behind them, three in the loss column is the Phoenix
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Of course, you bounce right back.
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We'll talk about that here in a few minutes against a Denver team that's up there as
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This is going to be a tight, tight, tight race.
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And you get a couple of matchups here with the Lakers soon, which can really kind of
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tell the, the tale of the season for the Rockets in terms of the regular season where
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they're going to end up.
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And hopefully, you know, and that three, see, I think we'd all prefer that three or four
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Well, that's a question for everybody else, maybe not the three seed.
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I think everybody would like to four seed and play the Los Angeles Lakers in the first
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I think that's where I would like to go.
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There's a long way to go to worrying about that still you got to take care of your own
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business and let the thing play out how it's going to play out.
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And maybe Denver wants to pop up and be the six seed or be the five seed or the four
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seed and Denver, the Lakers fall back to the six, whatever it is, the most ideal first
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round matchup, of course, for this basketball team would be the Lakers, even though they
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can score, they don't play a lick of defense, basically any single night that they go out
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Who's the player of the game tonight?
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a couple of nights ago welcome back to the locked on rockets postcast I'm Michael Connor
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and I will repeat it for those of you then again maybe miss the beginning of the show
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for some reason if you're watching this later on spend through it this is the locked on
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rockets postcast nobody has replaced Jackson Gatlin here on the locked on rockets podcast
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he is still doing the locked on rockets daily podcasts we did these shows for the last
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couple of years over on the locked on Houston sports page YouTube page we have transitioned to
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the team pages I also do these for the Astros we do this with the Texans as well with the Texans
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squad show which is still going on by the way twice per week they were looking for Houston Texans
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content head over the Houston Texans YouTube page and watch us a couple of times a week get all
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your Houston sports covered with all those pages I'll be back with Astros coverage here very soon
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with their post games as well because the season kicks off here at the rest of the season so down
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the stretch we have just been given the green light yesterday to go ahead and bring these shows back
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for the rest of the regular season so I'll be here there is one game I will miss I can tell you
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Friday's game had rodeo tickets for Friday so that was already planned ahead in advance we will not
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have a show Friday night sorry about that but we will have 18 of the 19 games well now 17 of the
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18 remaining games left in the regular season we will do a postcast show for anything that goes on
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with your Houston Rock it's hopefully a lot of wins who's the player of the game tonight
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this is the lock done player of the game
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you could probably take a guess Kevin Durant 29 points 12 of 16 from the field 45 from three now
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slowed down in the second half what only had nine in the second half but I mean come on
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he was unbelievable in the first half of basketball night maybe miss what just a couple of shots
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if any I'm pulling at the NBA game book here in the first half Kevin Durant had 22 it's only
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seven in a second I have 22 in the first half nine of 12 4 4 from three but I really thought that
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the rockets needed him obviously to be that guy in the first half because it was a really back
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in fourth basketball game and a lot of it goes back to the rockets not being able to hold on to
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the basketball and great in turn I was great in opportunities for the Raptors the Raptors are a
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team that likes to push the rockets don't like to push I did think that there were some missed
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opportunities in this basketball game tonight for the rockets to maybe get out there and push
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a little bit but Durant needed they needed the buckets out of Durant and he kind of looked
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early on like a guy that was playing a little ticked off from what happened a couple of nights
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going I'd be ticked off too look I was ticked off as a fan I honest to be completely transparent
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between all of us the other night when that was going I turned that game off because it was
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brutal to watch like they're just getting absolutely dominated and if you don't take that
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and take that seriously and come back with a little bit of a pep in your step for what has to go
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on out there on the basketball floor then you know we got some serious problems to talk about
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but Durant tonight was absolutely tremendous early on and you know I think that he knows like
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they all know that they're going to get some things said about them by their coach when they go
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through those moments and that happened and a night he played with that that kind of intensity
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off and so I had some good moments defensively as well early in that basketball game tonight did
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have a one was almost a shot block you did you did block a shot but I've done thinking of the
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gold tending I was almost pretty spectacular block shot there for him but as most nights we know
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this team where they're at my opinion is they're going to need Kevin Durant to be Hall of Famer Kevin
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Durant for this team to make a deep playoff push you know this isn't the perfect basketball team
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injuries have a lot to say with that losing two key pieces there's no telling what this team would
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look like if they had Stephen Adams if they had Fred Van Bleet like I think it'd be a world's
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difference for this basketball team in terms of what their nightly production looks like and
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their probably their ability really overall to protect the basketball with Fred Van Bleet out there
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but you got to deal with the cards that you've been dealt with and those cards are Kevin
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Durant's got to be he's got to be that dude and then you're going to need other guys to step up
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it'd be nice to get some consistent play out of Alpea again at some point I'm not
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I've not been the biggest fan of of what we've seen consistently in the last couple of months at
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times I was on the radio earlier today actually filled in on the radio earlier today and they
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brought that step I didn't realize I mean he hasn't had a 20 point game against a I think a team
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with a winning record in a couple of months now or something I'd have to go look and look up
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the exact it's been a while I didn't have 20 points tonight it's a winning team over there in Toronto
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so you know they're going to need a little bit more out of him and I was really kind of
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disappointed overall with his game at times tonight because it was a match-up without
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Jakob Hurdle over there tonight for Toronto where you're probably going you know okay maybe
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Alpea feast a little bit but I'm not trying to you know just during they just one of those nights
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basketball it's a long season not every night's perfect it is what it is come back bounce back
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just find it down the stretch everything that's what that's what they're going to need they're
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going to need Durant to do his thing Alpea's going to have to be a huge X factor for them and then
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those other guys like Amin and Jabari and Tari you know Tari didn't do a ton tonight but those
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guys are going to have to keep doing their thing as well thank you for stopping by and watching
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tonight for our first this late into the season locked on rock it's postcast it's always great
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to be back with you guys make sure that you join us after every game typically in that tend to
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I would say 10 to 15 minute range at the latest we will start these shows I usually try to start
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them as soon as the game ends so make sure you come back to this channel if you want live reaction
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like all of you I can be as emotional if the game calls for that we'll see if the rockets give
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us any of that down the stretch here with this basketball team make sure you're subscribed to
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tomorrow talking your Houston Rockets we have a great rest of your Tuesday night we'll talk again
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