Houston Rockets

Did not think I would be doing this today.

Thunder play the Rockets tonight.

730 Central.

And there's been a lot going on.

except the Grizzlies, apparently.

So the Rockets went in, got beat by the Mavs.

This is a really impressive game.

I know the Rockets were down Alper and Shingu, so yeah, they probably win this game if they're fully healthy.

They were down Reed Shepard also.

I was not in front of my computer.

I was cooking dinner when the news broke that the Rockets were going to start Clint Capella.

Had I known, I would have jumped on Twitter and told you guys, go ahead and start Clint Capella.

So guys, Again, I'm predicting that he'll be back by Monday of next week whenever Brooklyn is visiting us in Dallas.

But I'd be super stoked to see him play on Friday night against the Rockets.

I already predicted that we were going to win.

I told you guys that we were going to go 2-1 this week with the one loss being to OKC.

Because I think they're probably embarrassed by the fact that they lost as well.

Then you've got the Trailblazers, Magic, Rockets, Spurs, Clippers, Hornets, Lakers, and Nuggets again.

I mean, you could really be hurting if not much changes in the way things are going on.

That's my concern because I'm all for waiting, getting more data, trying to understand what this team could be.

is I've always said this from the jump when the whole Jalen Brown trade came out and the return clearly wasn't enough in my estimation for the Celtics.

Why didn't the Rockets trade for Jalen Brown? You're telling me that the Celtics couldn't have got Kevin Durant back in that deal, a similar deal with what happened with Paul George? And you guys keep on saying the rest of the league doesn't think that highly of Jalen Brown.

Well, the head coach of the Rockets is Ime Udoka, who coached Jalen Brown for a few years.

And I know he has a good relationship with KD going back to their time together in Brooklyn, but he also has a good relationship with Jalen Brown in Boston.

Couldn't Ime Udoka find a way to get younger and get rid of a player like Kevin Durant to go acquire Jalen Brown? But it's clear that the Rockets weren't interested in entertaining that idea.

And it's funny you bring that up because when the Milwaukee talks fell through, Zach, the first team I thought of after was Houston because of Udoka.

I was like, and they have Durant, yes, but they have all those other young pieces as well.

I know they traded some of them to get Durant, but they still have a lot left over young people.

Jalen Brown is about, but the other thing that I'll follow up on here is I've always said this from the jump when the whole Jalen Brown trade came out and the return clearly wasn't enough in my estimation for the Celtics.

Like, why didn't the Rockets trade for Jalen Brown? Like, you're telling me that the Celtics couldn't have got Kevin Durant back in that deal, a similar deal with what happened with Paul George? And you guys keep on saying, like, the rest of the league doesn't think that highly of Jalen Brown.

Well, the head coach of the Rockets is Ime Udoka, who coached Jalen Brown for a few years.

And I know he has a good relationship with KD going back to their time together in Brooklyn, but he also has a good relationship with Jalen Brown in Boston.

Couldn't Ime Udoka find a way to get younger and get rid of a player like kevin durant to go to go acquire jaylen brown but it's clear that the the rockets weren't interested in entertaining that idea

and it's funny you bring that up because when the milwaukee talks fell through zach the first team i thought of after was houston because of udoka i was like and they have durant yes but they have all those other young pieces as well i know they traded some of them to get durant but they still have a lot left over young i was like oh the celtics could work something out with them, and it's just like...

It felt like the...

I don't know if the interest from the Rockets wasn't fully there or the Celtics were trying to draw too hard a line and it backfired, but again, Paul George just had a nice start to the season, but Paul George and two first-round picks, albeit one of them being a really attractive first-round pick, that's not the...

And so who does that open the door up for? A lot of people in the era of parody.

I'm hoping for the Houston Rockets because I live here in Houston.

They've looked great.

I mean, they lost the other night.

Yeah...

I don't think so if I'm Dallas.

I mean, if I'm Dallas, I'm like, well, I just saw Jalen Green tried to do this with a young core in Houston, and it didn't work out.

That's a good point.

He's just ruined a lot of weeks this week, so I'm not going to go there.

Next game up on the slate would be this Rockets and this Thunder team.

This Thunder team is beat up.

I don't really like many people on there.

And then you talk about the Rockets, two guys I really like, or three guys actually, KD, And Shingun would be kind of the two big boys I like.

Pay attention to Shingun.

He did miss last night, which opened the door for a lot of these guys to get more minutes.

I mean, the Thunder are literally down 5,000 plus points, 1,500 plus rebounds, 400 plus steals, 300 nearly blocks.

and nearly 800 made threes it is just outrageous what this team doesn't have right now your production is just straight up gone at this point in time and you're gonna have to play a game here tonight down in Houston against the five and one Rockets and then after that you're gonna have to go against the Cavaliers and I mean it's not gonna be easy at all for this team now going forward so you go from being the resounding title favorite the market has It's dramatically flipped in the time being.

You see right here on Kalshi the Thunder are down 11% on their title odds over this rolling window and just look at how much it has dipped there in the late month of October.

Just absolutely insane.