Haley Joel Osment

Anyone who complains about modern day defense in the NBA needs to watch a game from the 90s on YouTube. Defense was atrocious back then. You couldn’t play any type of a zone, so trapping and double teams could only happen after the player had the ball. It was just a ton of one-on-one defense with no team wide…

I’ve never been a Russ guy and as much as I shook my head at some of Westbrook’s shots, TOs, missed FTs in the fourth quarters of this series, I am willing to excuse most because he’s a one-man team. He starts the fourth on the bench and a 77-72 lead and his teammates can’t make it three GD minutes before Russ…

I’m giving this to Russ, because he’s right, nobody can guard him. He didn’t have 40. He had 47, and yeah, he shot 34 times. But he made 15 of ‘em. That puts him at 44%. He was 2 of 11 in the 4th, which meant he was shooting 57% before he gassed.

Counterpoint: if they got more work in those months, the Thunder potentially win 7 less games and miss the playoffs; making how good they are a moot point in April/May/June.

“Checking in.”

The plus/minus without him on the floor said it all. There were several games in this series where they got the lead in the third quarter, and he couldn’t sit two minutes of game time before he had to come back in down five. Russell needs a shooter next to him next year and a quality backup, and the Thunder will be…

Fuck getting out of the first round. He’s the MVP for dragging the rest of that crapstack into the Playoffs.

The criticism that James Harden plays to draw fouls isn’t new, but it remains 100% true. According to the way the game is called, that supposedly makes him “crafty,” but holy shit is it brutal to watch. The NBA needs to put its foot down on players initiating contact with unnatural movements. Superstars or not, refs…

Harden’s hook move to draw a foul is so bullshit. Truly a move that goes against the “spirit of the rules”.

Ahhh yes, the old “Mvp is decided by who has the most competent team mates” arguement, because when I think “MVP”, I think “team award”.

I like how somehow the Thunder being up when Russ is on the court and then hemorrhaging points when he sits for a couple minutes confirms that Harden is the MVP when those comebacks often happen with Harden on the bench as well. Harden’s supporting cast is so much better than Russ’s and if that’s not obvious to you…

There’s no way Nenê got any MVP votes.

“Kanter’s slowed to a trot!”

Voting for Kawahi is like craft beer for pretentious NBA stat nerds, who for some reason need a reason to discredit an otherwise all time great individual effort by Westbrook, “This KawahiPA over here is just so exquisite, I don’t think i can ever go back to looking at basketball the same way” .... “Who even came up…

Replace Leonard with Trevor Ariza, and maybe the Spurs approach 50 wins.