Definitely want the Rockets to get PJ Tucker more floaters, more Austin Rivers drives, more Nene postups. That’s sound strategy.
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Deadspin slowly changing its narrative on Harden...
Harden dropped 42 and MIL barely beat the Rockets w/o CP3 and Gordon and that’s a blueprint to stop the Rockets? Haha um ok...good luck with that
R. Kelly and XXX are both huge pieces of shit (or were in XXX’s case) but I’m kind of with Kendrick on the Spotify thing. If you want to remove artists on moral grounds cool, but, as this article proves, it goes a lot deeper than those two and something tells me that Spotify wouldn’t apply the same standard to Led…
Counterpoint: This R. Kelly stuff has been around since pre-Internet. Even with that out there, we were still Stepping In The Name Of Love, Believing We Could Fly and Remixing Ignition. Kells has always been a piece of shit, but now we’re all self-righteous about it.
Even as a Rockets fan, I get shitting on the team and why some games are brutal to watch. But calling Gerald Green and PJ Tucker “unremarkable-ass NBA role players” makes me question how much you actually watch and understand basketball and what those two guys mean to the team and bring to the table. I’d expect that…
Aren’t you an ungrayed commenter?? Pretty brave of you to say this. Enjoy being sent back down to the grays with the rest of us plebes.
It’s not a travel, it’s actually a genius exploitation of the rulebook. Players are allowed 2 steps after they gather the ball, but nothing in the rulebook states that the steps must be toward the basket. When he does the move correctly—and I believe he did at the end of regulation—it’s legal.
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Just once, I’d like to see someone who’s whining about Harden “flopping” come with actual receipts (and I don’t mean some cherry-picked YouTube compilation showing 20 flops over 7 seasons). Please, tell me specifically which calls he got on Monday night that were not actually defensive fouls? Memphis doesn’t have a…
Your know what? It happens. This is not a regular thing though... just a recent thing Harden. In fact, Harden’s 27 FTA’s only ranks 15th all time and there are 5 other CURRENT players (including another guard) that have attempts for more albeit not this year. Dwight Howard has two such games ranked ahead of Harden…
funny how a discussion about this game on reddit has fans of all sorts of different teams (including Boston) feel like Harden didn’t bait for any of those fouls. 3-4 of those attempts were for techs while another 9 were clear fouls on 3-point attempts. So basically 5 were from him driving the basket. Let’s just go…
Nope. They can’t be back. They don’t have Trevor Ariza and Luc M’Bah a Moute. Deciding not to overpay them was too egregious and devastating of a mistake to recover from. Also Carmelo Anthony something something, shouldn’t have paid Chris Paul something something, am I leaving anything out?
Does Kaep even need a lawyer at this point?
Who needs context, right? The refs definitely missed a call but then they gave the Jazz a makeup call on the very next possession so there is that. This whole Harden is a ‘national disgrace because the refs didn’t call a travel on him’ narrative is also a bit much considering Harden doesn’t have the power to whistle…
People who get mad at James Harden for being unstoppable are so funny to me. No one is arguing that he didn’t travel here - it’s obvious. I get why you’d be upset with the officiating on this call, and rightly so because it could have effected the ultimate outcome of the game. However, James Harden plays by the same…
So he scored 32 points without any freethrows? Seems pretty good. He also posterized Gobert with a nasty dunk earlier in the game, but why show that when it goes against the narrative of an unathletic skirter of the rules?
Getting fouled and shooting free throws is part of the game. When assessing how good someone is we shouldn’t ignore it as a quality just because it upsets you.
The “Soccer style dive” definitely looks like he took a hard knee from Kuzma to the inner thight/leg around his knee as he tried to drive by, definitely a block. Those can hurt!