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Hello, and welcome to The Athletic NBA show, The Daily Ding.

I am Dave DeFort, joined by my main man, Kelly Eco, to talk about the really fun and exciting Houston Rockets.

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Kelly, these guys are fun, man.

I mean, look, I know it's preseason.

I'm going to couch everything, you know, like we've been taught to do.

Are we overlooking the young Rockets?

Not that they're going to be good, but maybe they're not going to be totally awful.

Well, it depends on what you call, you know, awful.

If you're looking at their Vegas projections, it was 23 and a half games.

I do think that they can clear that.

If you go back to last season,

you look at kind of the way those young guys lost a lot of games. It was due to inexperienced,

you know, costly turnovers, bad basketball. If you couple that with those guys getting better,

older, wiser, you bring in, you know, some nice pieces around the edges.

If you want to put them in, let's say, 15 clutch games and last season they lost all of them,

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