On today's Lockdown NBA Squad Show, free agency has shifted some things. Guys got re-signed, guys got moved, but did anybody actually get better? Let's talk about all that and more right now. Welcome to Lockdown NBA Squad Show. My name is Nick Engstead, host the Lockdown NBA and Lockdown Mavericks podcast. This is the squad show where we take over the feet of your favorite Lockdown show. It's an open invite for any host to join, talk about anything they want in the NBA. Today's episode is brought to you by Game Time. Download the Game Time app,

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apply. Download Game Time today. What time is it? Game time. I'm joined today from Lockdown Thunder

Ryland Styles, Locked on Rockets, Kevin Durant's new DM partner, Jackson Gatlin, DeAndre Aten, Superfan number one, Brian Kamenetsky, the biggest fan of Jonas Valchunus, this side of the Mississippi, Ryan Blackburn, and the guy that now has to answer to Chris

Osporzingis's doctor, Brad Rowland from Lockdown Hawks. We may end up somewhere completely

different, gentlemen, but I want to talk about the Rockets first. A lot of people are talking

about the Rockets, getting Kevin Durant, all these different moves that they've made. I think

they've made nine moves in free agency. Are the Rockets doing too much? Or are the Rockets now like in the tier with the Thunder right now? We've got Riley, we've got Jackson. Might as well start there. Rockets are about to run the West, everybody. In fact, I'm moving my nameplate over Ryland because Rockets are gonna finish with a better record than the no they're not actually doing all

that i'm going to back that up a little bit now look i mean how can you not put the rockets in the

same tiers at least on paper on paper they're contenders man i don't see i don't see how we all

using the same paper i mean i hope you're using the same paper my paper looks pretty good good, even through Rockets tinted shades. But how does everybody else feel? Come on. Who's buying that? Who's buying the Rockets Kool-Aid again? I'm okay. Deco Harrison's using. They were a two seed. Put the coffee. They were a two-seed in a super competitive West, averaging 28 points a game. And so now they have Kevin Durant. And only three made threes. It was ridiculous. No. Yeah. Look, they, they were a 52 win team. They added Kevin Durant. Like, they might crack 60 wins this next year. And they're going to, they're going to meet the thunder in the Western Conference Finals. It's those two teams like let's just fast forward to next may because that's what's happening rylem okay jackson question for you you have 17 power forwards on the roster who's actually going to shoot threes for this team outside of kd and fred van bly dang uh jubarisma jr's going to shoot threes and be just fine at it uh reed shepherd is going to shoot threes and be just fine at it. Reed Shepherd is going to shoot threes and be great at it. Aaron Holliday is actually going to play some minutes and shoot some threes. Tari Isson's an okay shooter. Give him some respect. DFS. DFS shoots three. DFS will shoot threes. There you go. They're shooting woes are a thing of the past they will no longer be a bottom five three

point shooting team we're shooting for middle of the pack mediocrity here in houston just

that's good enough right the thunder just won a championship middle of the pack three point shooting

yeah i got the if you got the elite defense then the shooting doesn't really matter as much

i am now picturing click a pellet taking threes right now and I've seen plenty of that in practices. It's not going to work out very well for you. Lots of two big lineups. It's going to be a lot of fun. We've seen Stephen Adams take threes and warmups. Anybody man at a game where you see Stephen Adams warm up? I've definitely seen a three. John Corralis on the squad show right now. Why are we talking about three-point shooting so much?

We actually had to trade John Corrales to another network in order to get under the second apron.

Like we had to lose that salary.

We had to be named later.

So I do like Houston, though.

I think that they are, they're going to be a fantastic team during the regular season as long as Kevin Durant stays healthy.

And surely, like, he'll stay healthy throughout the entire season.

I don't see any way that that is, that's something that comes back to bite them.

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