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This is the best of the Ben Mallor show on Fox Sports Radio.

Well, if you did bet the NBA, if you're Tim Donahey and you bet the underdogs, you were 2 and 0 on the night because both the Utah Jazz and the New Orleans Pelicans able to cover the point spread.

But neither one of them won the game.

And so it will be Golden State and Houston in the Western Conference Finals, the winner

advancing to win the NBA championship.

We know who the winner is going to be.

And I didn't find the Golden State, New Orleans game, all that compelling.

I didn't find the Houston, Utah game, all that compelling, even though the jazz

were in the game in the fourth quarter.

On a technicality, you could say, hey, the Pelicans, they went on a 16-2 run late in the game, I believe it was.

So they were mathematically in the game.

But let's focus in, at least at the start here, on the Rockets, because judging by the feedback I got, this is what you want

to talk about. And one thing I've always done here on the overnight, I've always had the

pulse of the people. That's what I've always had. Pulse of the people. So, so Houston,

how do we analyze this?

So Houston was given the hostess playoff schedule, and they took advantage of those

cupcakes and the ding-dongs and all of that, and they won.

They had a couple of brain farts, one against Minnesota, one against Utah, and the rockets have now advanced an attempt to conquer the Western Conference.

You talk about a grueling schedule.

Minnesota and Utah, back to back.

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