They didn’t buy anyone, they traded for him and had to give up a very good player ( Castro ) to do so.

They both basically abandoned 2 point shots in the last 3 minutes, but also couldn’t hit 3s. It was ugly.

That shit get’s me every time.

In the Yao + Francis/Yao + McGrady years Rockets coverage was usually pretty positive, it was only the results that didn’t measure up.

I was telling my brother a couple of weeks ago that LeBron going to Philly or Boston might make more sense than any other potential destination. I want it to happen just to see the fury it unleashes.

It doesn’t fit the model of the Warriors as the perfect team and doesn’t fit the narrative of invincibility, so no. Sportswriters will never stop clinging to it like a baby gorilla on it’s momma’s back.

You know that the Yankees haven’t operated that way since George Steinbrenner died, right?

The contrived, Cardinal fan-esque purity obsession and excessive need for run on sentences are a dead ringer. As is the being fundamentally wrong part. If only you’d name dropped Barcelona once or twice, I wouldn’t have been able to tell the difference.

It’s that 1-2 defensive punch of Trevor Ariza and... uh... James Harden... that’s putting him off... I suppose?  Last night was probably the best I’ve ever seen Harden play defensively, but that really isn’t saying very much.

I can’t even jump high enough to hit the rim. My knees are busted as fuck.

They basically have to shorten their bench if Houston does. Those other guys, especially the bigs, are useless in these games. Houston is keeping LMAM, Johnson, Anderson and Nene on the bench for the same reason. Those bench guys are out of their depth in this series.

That’s definitely a part of it.

Most shooters will keep putting up shots even if they aren’t hitting them. You aren’t going to get your rhythm back if you stop shooting.

Andre Injuredpatella.

I keep waiting for a game where both teams play well, rather than the one on-one off shit we’ve been seeing. Instead they just alternated quarters of hot and cold bullshit. I’m starting to think it isn’t possible for both of these teams to play well at the same time.

If he had a super power, it would be ambivalence.

You gotta work with the pieces you have. D’Antoni has a whole team full of square pegs ( because the GM is a square peg kind of guy ), so he cooked up a square peg system in a round peg world.

If you asked Charles Barkley, he’d probably tell you it was Earf.

You might be off by just a little bit.

I do wish they hadn’t gone for those Real Madrid-aping uniforms though.