Sengun & Rockets stun Cavs | Is Jimmy Butler worth it for the Suns?
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🗓️ 23 January 2025
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Summary
The Houston Rockets handed the Cleveland Cavaliers their 7th loss of the season thanks to two late by Alperen Sengun. Dave DuFour and Es Baraheni react to the chaotic finish in Houston, the Pistons climb up the standings, and Jimmy Butler’s suspension. Then, the Athletic’s Fred Katz joins the show to talk about his interview with OG Anunoby, the Pistons (again), and whether Jimmy Butler moves the needle for the Suns.
Host: Dave DuFour
With: Es Baraheni & Fred Katz
Executive Producer: Andrew Schlecht
Audio Producer: Grayson Moody
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| 0:00.0 | Good morning and welcome to the NBA Daily for January 23rd, 2025. |
| 0:11.3 | Coming up, Rockets, Cavs had a crazy finish. |
| 0:14.4 | We had it Pistons making it into the top six. |
| 0:17.4 | Hey, S. |
| 0:18.3 | Look at you. |
| 0:19.3 | And we went long with Fred Katz on OG and Anobi and Jimmy Butler's fit in Phoenix. |
| 0:34.3 | Good morning, everybody. Good morning. |
| 0:40.4 | I'm fired up. |
| 0:41.7 | Oh, my God. From Cavs Rockets. |
| 0:43.4 | Yeah. |
| 0:43.8 | What a fun game. |
| 0:45.6 | I mean, listen, this is one of the times where, yes, the referees were involved in the finish. |
| 0:50.8 | Yeah. |
| 0:51.1 | But it made it very exciting, I think, like in a certain way. Like, it was chaotic. There was some theater to it. There was some theater. Yeah. Well, it was great for us because there was a lot that happened. Sure. We had challenged calls. We had fouls that, I mean, I thought the foul against Jared Allen. I thought that was |
| 1:11.7 | going to get reversed. So give me the rundown, just break down the last like minute and I think |
| 1:16.8 | six seconds, right? Because that's where the chaos started. Yeah. So obviously the rockets went cold |
| 1:23.0 | in that fourth quarter. That's what allowed the calves to storm back. I think they went like five |
| 1:27.3 | minutes without scoring the ball. And so a couple of big Fred Van Vle. fourth quarter. That's what allowed the calves to storm back. I think they went like five minutes |
| 1:27.6 | without scoring the ball. And so a couple of big Fred Van Bleet threes got them into it. They kept |
| 1:34.1 | the calves at bay. And it was like a minute six left, Shangoon finishes over Jared Allen, |
| 1:41.5 | then pushes Jared Allen over. They challenge that call. |
| 1:46.1 | The refs determine nothing happened there. |
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