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NBA Daily Rundown – January 31, 2024
The Dallas Mavericks are presenting a -10 defense specializing in disrupting the things Houston’s top-5 offense does best.
- Defending The 3: Dallas holds their opponents to 33.5% from deep, ranking 2nd in the league. Houston shoots 37.0% from long-range.
- One Chance: The Rockets are 1st in 2nd chance points (18.4 ppg), but Dallas holds their opponents to only 15.1 2nd chance points.
- Series Standouts: Cooper Flagg is averaging 13.7 ppg and 5.7 reb in the series so far, with Max Christie adding 15.7 ppg on a blistering 61.5 3P%.
- X Factor: Alperen Sengun (27.3 ppg,5.0 ast, 48.4 FG%) has lead the Rockets in the series thus far, with strong support from Amen Thompson (18.0 ppg, 7.7 reb, 4.7 ast).
Houston’s solution? The Rockets are 16-4 at home this season, good for the second-best win percentage at home in the league.
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The Hornets are hot.
Historically so.
In addition to their first five-game win streak as Feb.2023, they’re wrapping up a January that’s seen them post two 50-point leads. Today? They face a test on national TV, when they meet Victor Wembanyama’s Spurs at noon on Prime. | Preview
- If Charlotte were to win, it’d be the Hornets’ longest win streak in a decade.
- The Drivers? Brandon Miller and tre Mann have been red-hot, with Miller out for his 10th straight game of 20+ pts & Mann topping the Kia Rookie Ladder … fresh off a wild showdown with Cooper Flagg.
- Said Mann: “We’re getting hot, and I think we’re going to stay hot. We just got a spirit about us right now.”
To get the W, the league’s top offense as Jan.1 needs to go thru the second-best defense – led by an All-Star Starter, in Wembanyama.
- Wemby, whose 2.8 blocks per game pace the league and 10.1 rebounds per game rank 7th, recently paced the Spurs over