It's amazing he gets to just walk around saying the hallucination machine has 'genius level intelligence at everything' and nobody ever questions him to his face about this statement.

Unfortunately on this you do have to hand it to ISIS (Margaret Thatcher)

As usual the only chance of things changing for the better is if players use their power to change it but they want the money just as much as the owners sadly

Interestingly dunks and threes has the schedule adjusted net ratings for Houston as 2nd in offense 3rd in defense. Susprising to me as I considered it to have been a fairly easy schedule to start but tankathon also has us with the 3rd easiest the rest of the way

Orlando had real success doing this last night on Sengun. Single coverage, Wendell Carter had him in jail. Kudos to Alpi for pushing through and taking advantage once he got in foul trouble (and working the boards) but this is the blueprint. Thankfully we have KD lol.

Somebody who doesn't follow me replied to this saying 'nope - not won anything' and then claimed "Jaylen" Green has had more to do with the Suns' success than Brooks this year. Has NBA Bluesky finally arrived?

Dillon Brooks was a huge part of monumental rebuilds in Memphis and Houston and now he seems to be helping Phoenix fix a toxic culture. Outside of the obvious stars, is Dillon Brooks one of the most valuable players in the NBA?

5-4: This is hell, I am sick, Kevin Durant is a Warrior plant 6-3: My boys, my beautiful boys!

Rivers had Milwaukee spam the same play with a shooter curling off Giannis at the FT line about 15 times in a row and Houston figured it out and the Bucks had nothing after that

Alperen Sengun, Always

AJ Green just attempted a backdoor cut so hard which would have given him an open dunk and Okogie completely denied him. Considering he's a 49% shooter you need to stick to and overplay - incredible defensive work

Hell fucking yeah Reed

And that's why you don't challenge fts on a 63% ft shooter when you don't even get the ball back

Reed now shooting 49% from 3 for the season

When you watch a Rockets player drive into help at the ft line for the 17th time today I hope you take back everything bad you ever said about my sweet prince Fred VanVleet

Aggressive Jabari driving >>>>

This is why shooting 3s is important, you can play like ass for 15 minutes and get yourself back in it with 3 makes. Their next trade(s) has to be about getting in more pullup threats

Please God let Reed get good on defense cause the shooting is electric

Kevin Durant not defeating the undercover cop allegations

This is absolutely embarrassing

Yeah I think Houston is missing their point guard

Unfortunately I think Clint as a rim protector has been a shadow of himself for a few years

Rockets on course to shoot 16 3s tonight after the end of the first quarter.

Losing the maths battle yet again

It seems like a lot of fans are misdiagnosing Houston's defensive issues as a problem with zone when they are actually in man to man and messing up on scram switches

Houston shot 48% from deep last night yet the Spurs still made 5 more because the Rockets attempted 27 of them and the Spurs shot 45. It's insane anyone thinks a team can compete for anything if they regularly give up that kind of advantage.

I think this is unfortunately a really astute observation. You can really imagine what the bad version of this offense might look like in the playoffs

These people should be in jail

In retrospect it's funny that the entire game evolved over people realising 33% from 3 = 50% from 2 at the same time OREBs cratered A 17% 3pt shooter getting two shots is the equivalent in ppp to a Kevin Durant midrange pullup!

Sengun isn't getting to the rim and he's shooting 48.2% from 2. If I were playing Houston I'd just guard him straight up, no doubles. He still hasn't proved he can reliably score against the big, stout interior defenders who don't foul.

I suspect Houston might finish top 5 in 3p% but only because they only shoot open 3s. There's only KD who can create his own 3 and even he doesn't like doing it much. Definitely something that will cause a problem later down the line.

Easy transition points which is one point to the theory of Houston's just genuinely good now so the players aren't trying as hard cause they don't have to.

Definitely feels like we are routinely getting 'everyone played well nights' which I think comes from role players who can make decisions, dribble and pass to the open man (and shoot...for now) playing off stars.

Have said it before and will say it again, I do not understand how Josh Okogie has shot so poorly in his NBA career with that form. He shoots it completely naturally.

Amen Thompson is really Amen Thompsoning right now

Tari is so hot from three he has finally stopped rearranging the ball before going up to shoot and is just firing it up there and I'M INTRIGUED

Clint Capela is just getting the easiest looks you could ask for cause Sengun and KD are attracting so much attention

Of note - Amen's Assist% has increased from 16.9% to 23.9% this year while his Turnover% has barely moved at all (14.6% -> 14.7%)

Anthropic is advertising its Claude chatbot on the Zach Lowe show and the ad read is 'do you want to argue about who the greatest player of all time is - now you can with an unthinking sentence predictor'. From AI will solve everything to this being their advertised product. They got nothing.

A year by year look at how many of Houston's 3point attempts came from the corner 2021-22: 18.2% 2022-23: 17.9% 2023-24: 18.2% 2024-25: 21.8% 2025-26: 32.2%

I'd be surprised if Houston has generated this many corner 3s in a game since Harden was a Rocket.

Rockets defense go brrr

60-29 rebounds. My god.

S3NGUUNNNN

If you are wondering whether the Rockets have adapted to life without Fred VanVleet yet it's the fourth game of the season and they had to call a timeout because nobody was available for an inbound pass because everybody is a front court player

While not having a PG hurts, the Rockets are built a little bit like OKC where everyone can pass dribble shoot (except without the shoot bit). Saw it against BKN. Amen/Okogie/Durant/Sengun can all put the ball on the floor and pass to the open man. Tari can do it a little, Jabari not so much.

Also, Josh Okogie's shot looks good and he shoots it comfortably, just looking at him through three games his career low 3pt% is a bit perplexing.

Catching up on the game last night Houston's ball movement on offense and rotations on defense was very impressive

The Rockets need an easy win tonight but Brooklyn's pressure defense I saw against the Spurs is no joke, especially with our lack of ballhandlers. SEGABABA for them so hopefully less effort but still, Rockets will need to take care of the ball.

Fully agree with this, he was also whipping some kick out passes to the perimeter too, something the Rockets just dont have enough of. His penetration has been a pleasant surprise so far. He just needs to be given that Mike D'Antoni level confidence as a shooter.