Rockets Down 3-1: Coach Udoka Considers Lineup Changes

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00:00Let's finish this late game by hearing from Rockets head coach Eime Odoka.

00:04Of course, they now go home down 3-1 in this series.

00:09A lot of work to do and a lot to think about if you're Odoka.

00:14More serious consideration to changing the starting five?

00:17Yeah, we'll take a look at everything.

00:19Obviously, certain liners have been much better at times.

00:22And the poor start to the third really stands out, obviously.

00:27You know, there's a few pieces to it.

00:31There's obviously offensive things and the big lineup goes on

00:34and they rebound well and all those things.

00:36But at the same time, we've been really good defensively with that starting unit.

00:40You know, keeping them in the low 20s for the most part

00:42and have a lead after most of these first quarters.

00:44So doing good defensively there, offensively, got some room to make up for sure.

00:49All right, so there's a couple things here.

00:52On this show, we said a number of times, and I hit the Rockets last night.

00:56I thought they'd win the game, but they covered the three and a half.

01:00That's neither here nor there.

01:01What I did say was, on this show last week,

01:04when I told you my son was going to the game to watch Curry on Saturday,

01:07is that they don't lose at the chase.

01:11They just don't lose there.

01:13It don't matter who they play.

01:14They win.

01:16Curry does not lose in that building.

01:18There's something about it, and it was the same in Oakland.

01:20When they played in the East Bay, I used to go to their games back in the day,

01:25and they never lost at home.

01:27Like, it was the craziest thing.

01:28The advantage that they had with that raucous crowd in the East Bay

01:32was really one of the great home court advantages in the NBA, right, in history.

01:37And then they moved to San Francisco into this new building, right?

01:40Ever since they've been there, all they do is win.

01:42They don't lose at home.

01:44So, it doesn't matter if you covered with the Rockets last night like I did.

01:49They still lost.

01:51And they're effed.

01:53They're effed.

01:54The series is over.

01:55They're going to go home and win at best, and then they're going to go lose.

01:59And that'll be that.

02:00It's going to be over.

02:01And I guarantee you this.

02:02If they lose, if they somehow shockingly lose at home in Game 6,

02:09they'll win Game 7 in Houston.

02:10Well, look, it comes down to this for me through four games of the series.

02:16The only game that Houston won is the game where Jalen Green went off.

02:20The other three games, Jalen Green's been bad.

02:24I mean, he just couldn't hit the beach last night.

02:26He couldn't shoot last night.

02:27He couldn't hit his first two, and that was it.

02:30The one game where he had, what do you have, 35, 34, 35 points in Game 2, they won.

02:36He hasn't been there the other three games.

02:37Oh, yeah, you're right.

02:38Jalen Green, you mean.

02:39Yeah, yeah, it's Jalen Green.

02:41I know you're talking about Jalen Green.

02:44No, Jalen Green is the only, is for the Rockets.

02:47He's done nothing.

02:48He's done nothing except for Game 2.

02:50And that's called a young player, young, who's going to be a star in this league,

02:55and he's in the playoffs for the first time, and he's learning a lesson.

02:58And he's going to learn it the hard way this time through,

03:00and he'll be more prepared next year.

03:02You got that right.

03:02He'll learn it the hard way this time.

03:04You got that right.

03:04All right.

03:05Now, we're going to learn the marathon.

03:06I got it right.

03:07You got it right.

03:08You got it right.

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