Happy New Year everyone! First pod of the New Year it's gonna be a huge one 15 and 60 western

commerce we're gonna go through in order of the standings and to do that we will start with a team

that probably will not be at the top of the western conference standings for much longer the 26

and nine Houston rockets they are only six and five since we last checked it on them when they

were dominating they do have a 9.3 net rating per our friend at cleaning the glass which is compiled

in non-garbage time they have the first ranked offense and the 11th ranked defense they have a 99

percent chance of making the playoffs per 538 but Liam is gonna be doing this team some uh some

cold waters here to sail through now for the rockets right and I think I think you've got to start

with the James Harden injury that just happened last game he has a grade two hamstring injury

uh they say he'll be re-evaluated in two weeks and per Jeff Stotz grade two means partial tear

and so the injuries it's particularly troublesome for a start and stop player like Harden so this is

gonna be uh something they're really gonna have to monitor over the next couple weeks yeah and some

of the estimates that have been floated around uh he's gonna be re-evaluated in two weeks so that's

the earliest you could possibly return but you imagine when he re-evaluated usually you're gonna

need a week or so to ramp up after that but two to three weeks generally for a grade two hamstrings

tear is on the low end and then as much as four to six weeks on the high end and generally after

about a week or so you can get an idea of how it's beginning to respond but Harden couldn't really

straighten his leg last night he was he was limping a lot too I mean and that's when you know a

hamstring injury is pretty bad when you came and walk normally if it's the kind where okay I do

an explosive movement now I feel it you know that's one thing but if you came and move normally that

is a pretty severe injury and so I think well we talk about just what that's gonna do to their

team uh over this period before we talk about some of the issue that they've been experiencing even

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