Bulls Buzzer Beater + Zion returns for Pelicans
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🗓️ 20 November 2025
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Summary
Dave DuFour and Zena Keita discuss the Rockets offense and its sustainability, the Raptors secret to their early success, and Nikola Vucevic's game winner for the Bulls. Then, Will Guillory joins the show to breakdown Zion Williamson's return to action, the great starts for rookies Derik Queen and Jeremiah Fears, and why it took the Pelicans so long to fire Willie Green.
Host: Dave DuFour
With: Zena Keita and Will Guillory
Executive Producer: Andrew Schlecht
Audio/Video Producer: Grayson Moody
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| 0:00.0 | Good morning and welcome to the NBA Daily for November 20th, 2025. |
| 0:11.0 | I'm Dave DeFore here with Zena Keda coming up. |
| 0:13.5 | The Rockets get a big win over the Cavaliers. |
| 0:16.0 | We're going to break that down a little bit. |
| 0:17.5 | The Raptors pick up their fifth win. |
| 0:19.5 | S might have been right about them. |
| 0:21.1 | And Will Gilleries here to talk about the Pelicans, how Derek Queen is looking, Zion's return, |
| 0:26.5 | and the fallout from Willie Green getting fired. |
| 0:29.5 | Good morning, everybody. Good morning, Zina. What's going on? |
| 0:33.8 | I'm so excited to talk about these games. |
| 0:36.7 | Crazy ending. We thought it was going to be a quiet night. And then all of a sudden. We got some pretty good basketball games. You know, it's one of those nights where, you know, we look at the schedule, you know, month ahead of time. We're like, okay, this is probably the big game. Who do we want to talk to? We never know what these nights are going to be. But with the NBA Cup, the schedule has been weird. These have not been great games on these Monday and Wednesday nights where it feels like they're just jamming all the, you know, it's like games that aren't rivalries. Houston and Cleveland, for instance, happens to be two good teams, but does it mean anything? |
| 1:13.6 | I don't know, Zina, but it was a good basketball game. |
| 1:18.8 | And the Rockets, I want to talk about this because they started big to go against the calves. |
| 1:19.2 | And we've been talking about the calves sticking with their double big lineups this year |
| 1:23.4 | being experimental for them and just the myriad of injuries that they've dealt with to start the |
| 1:28.2 | year. They actually, this was their ninth starting lineup of the season and their lowest |
| 1:33.7 | scoring first quarter of the year. So the rocket's got a big boost out of the gate. Thanks to |
| 1:38.8 | the double big lineup, but also a little bit because the calves are down and scuffling. Yeah, I mean, |
| 1:43.4 | the thing about it is we did not realize how much Ty Jerome, |
| 1:47.5 | Keroslaver, even Max Trues being out, how much that playmaking was going to be needed |
| 1:53.0 | with the absence of Adarius Garland. |
| 1:55.4 | And early on in this game, you saw if Donovan Mitchell isn't getting off, which he had only, he was one of seven |
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