You can always tell which people don’t actually watch the games.

I’m for sure more likely to pay close attention to Game 5 than I would’ve been after another hideous blowout

Because he and many others are the Cardinals fans of basketball, complaining about how the game is supposed to be played.

It really is a never ending cycle of collective hate no matter what we do. I expect this every year during the playoffs. No matter how we play, no matter how many games we win, our play style sucks and we suck.

hide-in-the-corners-and-watch-James-Harden-dribble bullshit into something resembling what basketball’s meant to be when practiced by more than one person simultaneously

hm. https://deadspin.com/the-warriors-have-been-infected-by-houstons-brain-worms-1826262931

You sound like a middle school gym coach that everybody hates.

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

I despise the Rockets for their essential cowardly cynicism

Maaan how many circles are you gonna twist yourself into to avoid saying “the Rockets are a really good team playing an incredibly smart strategy against a juggernaut.”

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.

I don’t get it. I found where I actually commended him on a insightful and praising Harden article — Burneko actually recognized Harden’s style of play and appreciated what it was WAY BACK THEN — and then this stuff appears.

But, fellow Rockets fans, we’ve never really been used to the national media being on our side…

In other words, Burneko is saying “I’m not back pedaling. Not at all. The Warrior are just not as good as I thought”. Sure, Jan.

Rockets in seven.

“And Curry himself, another third-quarter blitzkrieg notwithstanding, still seems somewhat less than fully himself, his motor sputtery and his activity generally low”

“I was wrong” is how I feel most Deadspin posts start lately.

james harden’s dunk on draymond green makes this entire take invalid.

That was a back-and-forth game with a lot of great moments and an exciting finish (even including a last second three-point attempt by Curry!). I get that the Rockets are hard to watch at times, but that game was a whole lot more enjoyable than the 41-point blowout/snoozefest two days before. We’re likely looking at…

On his failed attempt to block the Harden dunk, notice how Green follows through to give Harden a forearm shiver/shove to the floor. At the same time, Green takes his left arm, which was pressed to his body at impact, and drives his fist into Harden’s face.
Stay classy, Draymond.

Hope Burneko has that crow cooking:

I, for one, am absolutely shocked that on a night where the Rockets break the Warriors home playoff streak, Deadspin’s only headline about them is wildly disparaging.