Let's talk about a team that nobody cared about for a while, but in their last 10 games, they are nine and one. And that team is not the Lakers. Not the Cavs. It's not the Knicks, the Houston Rockets.
After being an NBA purgatory following the James Harden era, they are currently the second seed in the Western Conference led by head coach M.A. This nigga really cheated on the alone. Doka. Can we take the rocket seriously this upcoming postseason and does M.A.
Deserve coach of the year recognition? He does. How he hears the thing, right? Like what I always said about young teams and two bagel seasons away.
They're best player, Jalen Green. I think he's in his third year. We see him race his level of play. Hey, Ben Thompson is in his second year.
We see his he raised his level of play, but they just not ready yet. When I look at this team, I look at them a lot like Boston slash OKC where, you know, it's home, home, home, home, home talent. And they have a really good head coach that has put structure in place and they play defense first. That's how to get easy buckets, but in the half court situation, you know, they got single again, another person that they drafted extremely versatile.
Can handle play make and to me, you have their version of Jana Brown and Jason Tatum. So they are going to be great. It's just you can't take them that serious because they don't have the experience to scare somebody in a deeper play off. Right now, can they win their first their first round?
Yeah, I think they can win it off of athleticism and youth. But once you get past that first round, I just I'm not putting I don't think that they could be a second round team. But can they scare some people? Of course, because they're coached the right way.
They play defensive defense travels. But are they going to execute down the stretch without that experience? I don't see that. Now, I do know that they do have two veterans in terms of rev every and the Brooks right.
Those guys have extensive playoff experience, especially when you're talking about that Lee, you know, a champion, but that's still not enough. But it'll help them through that first round. But I don't see them go past first. Right now, they got the clips first round.
You would say come over the clips. I think they could be the. I think the Clippers can be the Rockets. No, he did.
No, no, he's a Rockets could be the Clippers. Yeah, too. Taulu and he's going to win the game, bro. But he does.
He's serious. No, one of them is a court. He's still by that score. He does.
He's a reference to another one. That's correct. Yeah. Yeah.
That is when I know. Hey, people single and he is the best way on the team, by the way. I was going to say, in the green is nice. I'm single and one of them.
He's there version of a joker. Yes, he is. underrated. Nobody ever talks about it.
But he'd be putting the numbers, bro. Has him when I'm for a couple of years now. He has. He reminds me, well, what's the name of Sacramento?
Here they play a lot of like, there are a lot of like what they bring to the table because they're, you know, they get in the system and get in the rebounds. And he can score as well. Probably a little bit better than the opponents came, but I like what the Rockets have. And I think I definitely think it should be taken serious.
I like the fact that I like Man Fleet, Man Fleet, and Dylan Brooks as far as the leadership goes. I first, I remember bringing in Dylan Brooks. I'm like, why did he bring him to the team? It just didn't make sense.
But now that you see how he's playing in the attitude and that toughness that he brings, it makes sense. And it's good for the Thompson Queen. It's good for him to be around that and kind of soak up that kind of stuff. But he is definitely, definitely in line for coaching here.
And it's funny how even the last time we talked about coaching a year, you know, we live in Detroit, Detroit coaches running away with it. He's, he's it. Period. We talk about nobody else we talked about.
But that was it. And looking at it now, he may have to be in that conversation. He has to be in this matter of fact, being number two in the West, you got to be the front runner because that's a gauntlet over there. And get up there.
You know, I know, they don't get to change up too much. But I do want to give email his flowers. I think he was like, when we talked in the chat, he said that he was left out for dead after Boston kick into the curb, rightfully so. Cause he did some shisty shit.
You know, a little bit of a game, bro. I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, listen, I don't know what email is. You know, say what the name like, even though, you know, what he is. I don't know is that he was he went against the right blue.
He did the card. He went against one of the Mount Rushmore's. Hey, he, he, he, he part of your, your, your, your side of the world. Right.
He definitely. I can tell you, I can tell you, I can tell you always, when I always tell you, move, don't you know, confused the East of the West, right? It's a different conference. You know what I'm saying?
But no, he doesn't know, but I mean, like he's doing a hell of a, I think what was the last time we talked about Houston, like as a legit playoff team, period, you know, since the game started playing, you know, it's like, it's almost like, that's almost a decade from now. You know what I'm saying? So I think that he's in what, in about two years time, he's helped turn that thing around. I think they made just need one more star away from adding to this roster.
I hope it doesn't take away from what they already have. The same thing like, he, he talks it because they already got three. They got three guys. They got three legit guys.
They just got to grow. We're talking about, say, goos in a second here. He was an all star. We're talking about, even Thompson, he's in the second year, daily, Greece in his third year, bro.
They haven't even hit like five years of the league. You know, they're in the second year. You know, they don't know if they're much more. Yeah, they're more.
You have two. It's a partial. Good. And you got, you know, I can't wait more with you.
Another attitude type guy. Tari, Ethan, who is productive. They draft the reshaper, who's supposed to be really good. He, uh, he had like one breakout game, but he can't even get on the court.
You know what, you know what player I think they should get if they get, obviously don't mess up with the court. You already know what I'm about to say, people. It's two letters kid and it's KD. You put the, the merch on them all over the world.
They go straight to the top. Ruined the team without it. Email bullshit. And you can't call it out.
Hey, Nick, I don't all the way disagree with you. They just need a more of a playmaking, courtyard event. We if that's the move you're going to make. Because man, we take too many shots to add KD to that mix or you turn young.
Now, no. Trick you don't think train will be good for this? No, you can take all these shots. Inside out with the guy with Sigoon.
I think Jalen Green athletic he he he's developing, you know, I, Jabari Smith, he's been hurt. He's been hurt. He's the alternative, I'm trying to get hurt. And he got hurt this year.
But the guys that they have come along with the bench come in and do a good job. And I think the guy that I find really the most impressive is a man Thompson. And he just kind of fits what they're doing in terms of being a functional kind of with a lot of upside. And I think getting those veterans sheltered into what you were talking about, bringing in forever and fleet to kind of run the show and provide some stability with the young core that they're building.
Really, really worked out. Because I mean, you were talking about dealing with Brooks, but you know, the Brooks is like their bully, their enforcer and stuff like that. You know, sometimes he thinks he's the star because he'd get out there and start taking all these shots. He had a good game against who they played as a Denver fan, but made that.
Oh, Murray got hot in the third quarter. He was like, he was like, well, but, but, and they just got in the third quarter. But they almost, they got within four and they had a chance to win it. But, but I like the young core that they have and then like veterans that kind of fit and can reach Shepherd at some point take over and be that while the other younger guys kind of mature in the league, that would be interesting to see what they do in the playoffs.
I don't know, man. I don't know if they are really a true number two C in the West. You know, that what two through seven, they're jousting for position. So, I don't know if they could be Minnesota because the possibilities are Minnesota, L.A.
or the Kings or the Warriors. They will have to play. I'm not sure what to make it right now. I'm not sure what to make it right now.
But what I was saying, I agree with all of you guys. E-Mays doing a great job, but they're Rockett's, you know, and the roster that he's built like all of these players that were naming like they had college names. They are athletic. They could hoop and for him to have the vision to put them on the same team, Rafael Stone, they're gm, I think he's doing an amazing job as far as building a rocket.
So, yeah. So, it'll be interesting to make sure everybody is going to be in the pocket. So, you know, Cuz it's a good story, and I think it definitely did, is a good story for Emay, you know, because he was down and out. He was down.
He wasn't out here. He was in that thing. He was in that thing. He was in that thing, but it was down.
He was standing up. He was down, so don't pull out more. That's a good. It's hard to talk about it.
Cuz you know what he did. It's hard to talk about it because you know what he did. You know what I mean? He know what he did.
I don't even want to provoke that type of foolishness. Well, he just he disrespected the Mount Rushmore Louvre. Come on, bro. Man, I ain't too big.
Mr. Rolle, me along with the baddest women ever to grace this earth. And he did everything right until he did it. He walked in.
That man, she didn't kneel me along with me. He's white woman. It's insane. That's insane, bro.
Yeah. All right, man. Wait, wait. So we'll be watching.
We'll be watching to see how they perform in the playoffs. And I like that we have some new blood creeping in here. I think it's dope. And it was.