Daily Ding: Hornets sting Rockets, Bulls down Hawks, Ja Morant game winner!
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🗓️ 28 December 2021
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Travonne Edwards and Dave DuFour recap the big games from Monday night in the NBA. The Hornets defeat the Rockets thanks to 27 points from Terry Rozier. The Bulls beat the Hawks thanks to the DeRozan and LaVine scoring tandem. Ja Morant hits 2 of his 32 points with .5 seconds remaining to lift the Grizzlies over the Suns 114-113.
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| 0:00.0 | How about we can just watch basketball? |
| 0:08.8 | How about we can just watch basketball? |
| 0:13.8 | Good morning and welcome to the Daily Dang on the Athletic NBA show. |
| 0:18.0 | I'm Dave DeFore here with Trevon Edwards for your Tuesday morning update. |
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| 0:37.0 | subscription to The Athletic for just 24 bucks for the whole year. Go to theathletic.com slash NBA show. A lot of stuff to get into, so we're going to jump right in. And Trey, I threw you for a curveball tonight. I said, hey, let's shoot for something fun. Everything's weird. Rockets, Hornets. Certainly, that'll be a close game. |
| 0:55.6 | No, of course not. |
| 0:57.1 | Because this was a Monday night, and I picked the game. |
| 0:59.1 | The Hornets blew out the Rockets by 24 points, 123.99. |
| 1:03.5 | And Trey, I think when you talk about this game, first of all, I want to talk about the |
| 1:07.8 | breakneck pace that it started at. |
| 1:10.0 | I mean, both teams were just going absolutely berserk. |
| 1:13.3 | First quarter ended 3329, and it felt like both teams could have easily had 40 in this one in the first quarter. |
| 1:19.5 | It was just back and forth, not a lot of defense. |
| 1:21.9 | And that's kind of what we wanted to see tonight. |
| 1:25.1 | Yeah, I mean, you know, both teams are, you know, young and kind of, you know, fast-paced. |
| 1:32.6 | And especially when you got an offense that's kind of ran by Terry Rozier and lamello ball, |
| 1:39.3 | you really think about just, you know, how, how the pace can go. |
| 1:44.1 | You know what I mean? Like when they got guys like that. But then on the other end, you got, how, how the pace can go. You know what I mean? |
| 1:44.5 | Like when they got guys like that. |
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