Deadspin shits on Clay Travis every chance they get.

His boss harasses Laura, he says “no comment” and you think she’s being petty?

Laura, good article, you bring up really solid points and I 100% agree with you.

I recognize that I am not qualified to speak on this case or the larger issue of domestic violence. So I won’t. Hope everyone has a great Friday.

I didn’t bother watching because Albert Burneko said that the series was already over.

Posting up is usually not the most efficient way to score buckets. Basically you want as many of the below to be true as possible:

Elite post-up player
Negative defender

Shitty Take,

The way that everyone is so eager to call a series “over” after a single showing has become one of the more grating things about postseason NBA analysis. We’re not talking about Warriors/Suns here. It was a single home loss. Calling the Rockets “desperate” right now was always going to be a major stretch.

Oh, don’t forget:

Never let facts get in the way of a bad, boilerplate, almost-certainly-didn’t-watch-the-game narrative.

“Game 2 saw Houston move away from their signature style of depressing isolation...” — according to ESPN, they actually ran almost the exact same number of isolation plays as in Game 1, which according to their data bureau was the most any team has run in any game in five years.

Yeah the “the Rockets only play iso crowd!” seems to ONLY pay attention to that particular part of their game. I never intentionally watched any of their games this season, but when I caught some of their games on national TV it seemed fairly obvious they could move the ball around. Since when is D’Antoni’s offense…

The Rockets only had one more pass in game 2 than in game 1 and only one less possession that went ISO. The only thing that changed was their intensity on defense and all the turnovers that allowed them to get out and run. They did make an effort to get the ball down the court much quicker too and not allowing the…

“As well as Houston played, the Warriors seemed affected by the team boredom that occasionally showed up in the regular season”

Fuck this take. This is the fucking Western Conference finals and that’s a lazy as shit take. 

Seriously are y’all allergic to writing a headline about the Rockets that is actually positive? Rockets have a great game through all four quarters, but you have to remind people that they’re “Desperate.”

‘As well as Houston played, the Warriors seemed affected by the team boredom that occasionally showed up in the regular season.’

Hi Lauren, please tell Burneko to eat shit. Thanks!

This is such a ridiculously bad take. The Rockets played like this for much of the regular season also. And in what world would the Warriors be “bored” about the opportunity to essentially end the series?

Was gonna say, the solution is to just not have Jon Fitch fight anymore

Still, he didn’t have much to say about why he thought Smith being the victim of a break-in was a reasonable launchpad to question the player’s maturity.