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Woo! Woo! Good! Good morning, sweet world. Welcome to the No-Dungs podcast on the Athletic Network. It's Tuesday, January 14th, 2025. I'm Jay Skeets here in the Classic Factory and alongside me, as always, Tass Melis.

Podcast and maybe King Lizard Wizard, Wizard listeners, this is for you. Next to him. It's the bearded one. Matapsia Hot Boy, Trey Kirby. Hey, oh. And over yonder, making the magic happen, super producer, JD. Hello. There he is. Here we are. Here you are. Live on YouTube, hit the like button subscribe share the show podcast listeners do us a

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why it's the return of say what the hot gain the tasmelis and jd play where they test

tray and i's knowledge of the NBA broadcast crews. And whether or not they're saying what they're saying. It's wild. And it's been forever since I've played it. You guys did it way back in the preseason. I was gone that show. So it's been like probably a year since I've played, say what? Yeah. So we've come up with some things that you may have heard or may not have heard from NBA broadcast teams. You tell us. Can't wait for that. But let's get into some of the games from last night. Not a crazy schedule, six in total, but some good ones. And we'll start with the one between two of the top teams in the Western Conference. and it was Jalen Green, tying his career high with 42 points as the Rockets rallied for the 120-118 victory

over the Grizzlies. Could he used one more point, Houston? What do you do in Desmond

Bain? Shooting the three at the end, that was Pickham. We'll get to that later. But really

entertaining game again between these two teams and the Rockets pull it off. How surprised were you that they came back in this one? This was an awesome win for the Rockets to get a victory on a night when they turned the ball over more than 20 times. Incredible stuff and just such a fun game to watch. The Grizzlies and the Rockets, they play similar styles. There's obvious tension, I feel like, between these two teams. It will bubble over if they somehow match up in the playoffs. There's even a couple of players in common, right? Dylan Brooks, former Grizzly, Stephen Adams, former Grizzly. I thought this game was over when John Morant hit a 37-footer to put the Grizzlies up by 12. Memphis was hitting wild shots all night long. They banked in several shots from straight on at the end of the shot clock, but enough performance from so many guys for this Rockets team. Jaylen Green was great. 42 points. Apparently that's the cap that he can get to. The third time in this career, he's got the 42 42 points post game. He's like, I gotta get past it at some point. He might have been able to do it because he had two massive missed dunks in this one that were cool, but quick trigger threes, relentless driving to the hoop. And it worked out for the Rockets when Zach Eady went down with foul trouble. The Grizzlies were able to survive survive, Jared Jackson Jr., picking up three in about 10 seconds at the start of the third quarter. But after Eadie checked out, or filed out, I guess, with 3.30 left, it was the two-man game of Schengoon and then either Jalen Green or Fred Van Vleet. It was a Schengun hook. Schengun then drew a foul inside. Then Amman Thompson, who was great

all night, got that dunk on the broken play when it looked like the Grizzlies were maybe going to force

a turnover. Then you got that Jalen Green hanging layup, tough finish from that guy. And then

Amman Thompson drew another foul inside on a similar sort of high, low sort of action.

They just saw no seven foot four guy in there were going to the hoop every single time.

Fred Van Bleet hit a big shot.

And then Thompson was finishing plays all night long.

This was just a fun game to watch.

And yeah, big shout out to Desmond Bain coming through in the pickup.

Huge third quarter run for him. Jai, I, had an ugly last few minutes of this one. But I think that was because Amin Thompson was all over him. Yeah, what a blessing. For the Houston Rockets to have him, Men Thompson go into the starting lineup over Jabari Smith because of Jabari Smith's injury just to see what Amant Thompson could do. He did a really good job against John Moran, who is just freaking spectacular. There's that play where Amman Thompson shuts down John Moran and he has to back pedal. Okay, what am I going to do? And then he's in the key and he can somehow just fly by Amman Thompson and then just hang in the air while Cam Whitmore came and challenge the shot. But somehow he's able to just go up and under underneath Cam Whitmore.

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