On today's show, the Rockets, are they really contenders?

They're very good, but I don't know if they're complete contenders. I got a couple of questions. I'm going to ask Jackson Gatlin of Locked on Rockets about them and more. Today's Locked on Maths. Stop it! Let's go! Stop! The number one pick will go to the Dallas Mavericks. Cooper flag will fly in Dallas. All of us all five. You are locked on now.

Great.

You're a day with Dallas Mavericks podcast. It's part of the Locked on Podcast Network. Your team every day. I'm going to get a city like that. And welcome. You are locked on to the Dallas Mavericks and the Houston Rockets. your team every day. My name is Nick Engstead. Media member covering the Mabs for 10 years.

Thanks for being in every day. You're making Lockedown Mabs, your first listen. Lockdown Rockets, your first listen. This episode is brought to you by Monarch Money. Take control of your finances with Monarch Money. Use the code. Lockdown NBA at Monarch money.com 50% off your first year. Joining me, I'm joining him. It's Jackson Gatlin from Lockdown Rockets,

Native Houstonian, Lockdown Rockets,

Native Houstonian covering the Rockets for how long now?

Six years professionally.

Six years doing it still grinding away over there in Houston

in the sweltering, the sweltering humidity down the highway.

Just every time somebody talks about Houston,

they mentioned humidity around here.

Hey, man, you're not that much further north of me, okay? There's plenty of humidity to go around Texas, and there's plenty of it going on in Dallas right now, I'm sure. At least you have a beach that's really nice, right? Absolutely. It's pristine. The water's clear. You can see straight to the bottom. It's not murky or muddy or any of that stuff.

I've been that beach so many time.

I know every word of that is a lie.

Oh, man. Today, we're going to talk about the two Texas teams and maybe the Spurs as well.

We'll talk about the Mavs and the Rockets. We'll go through. I'll ask Jackson Rockets questions.

He's going to ask me Mavs questions and then we'll go free for all in the third and

talk about whatever we want in this.

So here's one to start off with. We had our squad show recently, and people were going in on the Rockets, really wanted to talk about them. And Matt, more specifically, of Lockdown NBA, Lockdown Nuggets, really wanted you to convince him that they were a contender and that they were like they're legit going to be number two so

do it right now convince me the rockets should be number two in the west again next season shout out to uh matt more i hope he made it back home to the uh the old people's home after that squad show but uh look you know ever ever ever

first of all on matt more uh we did a mavs villain draft last Friday and Matt Moore got picked.

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