One last Christmas gift from your old pal DTB, and I saved the worst for last: a thoroughly unexciting video of Danuel house scoring 18 points by hitting 5 threes and 3 free-throws. Surprisingly, the free-throws did not come on a foul while shooting a three, despite shooting threes being seemingly the only thing he can do on offense.
The Rockets are great for role-players, in a way, but in other ways, they’re not so good. Take House for example. He probably has some sort of well-rounded game, but in Houston, he has one job: run to the corner and wait for the ball. He’ll also get some fastbreak points, but the in-between stuff? Simply non-existent. I remember he was able to do some things in Phoenix, there was some variety there, so it’s not like he’s totally unskilled.
If you’re looking for more Christmas gifts (honestly, five isn’t enough, but role-players performances are hard to come by from this particular slate of games), you can wait around and see the vintage highlights I’m currently uploading as part of my semi-cleverly-named “12 Days of DTBmas” series. I choose 5 videos for each day and reupload them to my Highlights Archivium. Unless you’re a patron, you don’t get to see them yet, but be patient. I’ll release them to the world soon enough. Rockets legend Carlos Delfino might be involved.