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The Houston Rockets have been in a funk of late and they absolutely had to have this
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It might not have been the prettiest of basketball games, they might not have fixed everything
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We're talking about it right here on the Locked On Rockets Postcast.
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Welcome to the Locked On Rockets Postcast.
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This evening, I am your host, Michael Connor.
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Thank you for stopping by and watching if you're live.
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Or watching it later on in this Locked On Rockets YouTube page.
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Make sure you're subscribed to it, of course.
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Come back after every game wraps up.
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We're right here with you for the Locked On Rockets Podcast, or Postcast, excuse me.
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The Locked On Rockets Podcast is hosted daily by Jackson Gatlin.
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He will be back with you.
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I'm sure over the next week, in the next week, I should say, getting you all of what
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goes on this weekend because the Locked On Rockets are on this road trip tonight, and
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then one more on Sunday before heading back home.
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They're off to New Orleans now.
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We'll talk about that here in just a bit.
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But what's the thing that you're talking about more than anything else coming out of
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This is what you'll be talking about.
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I mean, it sounds so simplistic, and it is simplistic.
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It's the fact that they just got a win based off the way that they've played recently.
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This has been a basketball team that we've talked about the issues at nauseam, everything
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that has been going on, you know, laps, days, go play, turnovers, not, you know, finishing
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at the end of a game the other night and the most bizarre end of a game that we've seen
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probably all season.
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There's been a lot of aspects of this that have been wonky, I think is the way to put it.
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So you just kind of needed to see them tonight, put one step forward and simply win a basketball
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And okay, they're playing a Memphis team that obviously is not very good this year, 24
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and 49 now as Memphis, the Rockets, 44 and 29 with the win.
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But these are the kind of games that, you know, you get concerned with how they played
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and look, honestly, with the way they kind of came out again tonight.
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We've seen this a lot lately.
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They've come out where the other team kind of punches them in the mouth.
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There's one thing that I would like to see the Rockets do instead of letting their opponents
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do, it would be to punch them in the mouth instead of getting punched in the mouth.
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And Memphis kind of came out a little hot, had a little bit of a lead there in the first
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quarter, but they fell back into being Memphis.
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I think, you know, would you, of course, you know, being selfish here, would you like
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to see a game, a lead extended more, you know, against a team like this throughout it
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to where it's an easy cake walk win, of course.
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I mean, it ends at 1-19-10-9.
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10-point wins or 10-point wins in the NBA, and I don't care who you're playing, that's fine.
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But yeah, a part of you wants to see it.
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You know, they still turn the ball over a little bit tonight, 14 turnovers for the basketball
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But to me, there was, you know, really one spot in the game where it kind of changed.
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Time to reveal where the game was once or most.
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It's the turning point.
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It was kind of that third quarter more than anything, and really, you know, you go look
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Kevin Durant in that third quarter had 11 points and played all 12 minutes in the Rockets.
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You know, we're able to weather the storm that Memphis came out of the half with.
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And by being able to do that, you held on to your lead there, going into the fourth quarter
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He only had six in that second or that fourth quarter, but that was what, third highest
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total, helped them key the victory there late.
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Again, by, by no means was anything tonight spectacular or great, it was acceptable.
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I think that that's what is tonight, what tonight is.
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And of course, throughout a regular season, these nights are completely fine.
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You know, we want to see them tune things up again and play better here and there.
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There were aspects that were better.
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And look, they knocked down some threes tonight at a, at a good clip, 36% from three can
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They hit there are 12 threes tonight.
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And if it's hit 13 for once, they didn't get completely basically, you know, hoodwinked
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by their opponent in terms of who put up more threes than, or who made more threes than
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And it was the Rockets tonight that just, I shouldn't say they didn't, they, the Grizzly
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still did, but it wasn't by a ton.
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So the Rockets were able to keep up there.
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Durant had the 25, Jabari had the 21, Alpie with 14, a men with 18, Reed Shepard with
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15, the starting lineup does its job.
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You know, one of the themes, the last couple of nights that we've said has been, hey,
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you know, this team has gotten nothing from their bench at all tonight.
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They got 16 from Tari.
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He didn't hit outside shots, but he hits shots.
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16 from Tari six from Aaron Hollow, they just two from Tate and just two from Tate and
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But again, what's that eight, 10, that's 26 points off your bench.
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That's a whole heck of a lot better than it's been of late.
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And the other night, I think we said they had like six points, maybe I had to go pull
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the box score back up.
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But that's what you got tonight.
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I would like more of course, you know, figuring it out, making me feel like there's not,
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you know, something that's, you know, completely wrong.
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Rockets with the victory tonight.
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Had to have victory moving to 44 and 29 on the season.
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119 109 over the Grizzlies that they'll finish up this road trip.
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Thank goodness here in just a couple days.
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Rockets still sitting in the sixth seed in the Western conference.
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They're a game behind Minnesota.
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They of course could have won the season series the other night against the
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Timberwolves, but they did not.
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I'm going to be honest with you right now.
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I don't think I'll pick the rockets to win.
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The series that they are going to play in the first round.
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I they feel that is completely wrong with me.
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I understand as a lifelong Houston Rockets fan and in native Houstonian,
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like that's just messed up.
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But I think I'd rather them stay in the sixth seed and play the Lakers.
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I'll pick the Lakers Lakers out of the home court,
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but I feel like they just have a better chance there.
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So I don't mind sticking at six at this point.
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See how this thing plays out.
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We've got a few games left of course in this regular season and of course
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when all these games end right here with you on the Lockdown Rockets postcast
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breaking them down.
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As I mentioned, the road trip is going to wrap up here shortly.
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That being Sunday in New Orleans.
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I think it's still called the Smoothie King Center.
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I don't know why I'm doubting it, but I think it is.
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Six o'clock Sunday evening, I'll be with you when they get wrapped up.
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Then they'll come home for three with the next bucks and jazz in town
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for heading out back out for two more and then three more to finish the season at home.
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You guys have a great rest of your Friday night.
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