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Welcome to a Tuesday edition of locked on

NBA. I'm West Goldberg and I'm here with Sports Illustrated's Ben

Goliver. Coming up we'll talk about if if the Raptors are in the driver's seat to keep

Kawil Leonard.

And if Jamal Murray was out of line at the end of that Nuggets Celtics game, but let's start

in Houston, where the Rockets are getting their defensive coordinator back. Jeff

Boselic, who retired just before training camp after turning Houston's defense into a

top 10 unit last season, has agreed to reprise his role and rejoin the rockets at the end of the month.

The rockets need any help that they can get as their defense has gone from being ranked seventh in the

defensive rating last season to 21st this season not so great so Ben how much will this help

the rocket's defense well you know I don't say this to be a dramatic but I mean

Mike Dantoni's made it pretty clear throughout his career and to me he's a Hall of Fame coach right but he does not care about defense if you were going into a Mike Dantoni lead team meeting

probably the first five or six or maybe even ten topics in that meeting is going to be

offense offense offense offense he knows that that's his been his bread and butter you know that's

where his creativity has always kind of come out throughout

his career whether it was Phoenix or wherever else and I think it kind of shows

this year to be honest because you know defense I mean yes there's going to be

schemes and everyone's talked about

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