BRAD FACKIN STEVENS IS THA GREATEST BASKETBALL COACH SINCE OWA-BACK HIMSELF! AND I DON’T WANNA HEAH SHIT ABOUT THAT PEYOTE SMOKIN HIPPIE WHO ROLLED THA BAWLS OUT FA JOADAN, SHAQ, AND THAT FACKIN RAPIST. NO MEANS NO, KOBE! #NoOneDeniesThis
NotHereForIt
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The thing is, last night wasn’t just an off night in the, like, doing-good-stuff-but-missing-shots sense. They completely reverted to how they played in Game 1 and for long dismal stretches of the regular season: four players standing still along the edges, watching Harden or Paul dribble the air out of the ball. That…
“This is the correct take. While the Warriors are completely unfair and have broken the NBA in many ways, at least they play an aesthetically pleasing brand of basketball. The Rockets Harden play the most joyless and soulless basketball I have ever witnessed.”
I did. I’ve also written a bunch of posts about the Rockets over the past few months, which I think track pretty well my growing dread and disgust at the basketball that has grown out of building an entire team and style of play out of the idea that it’s good to stand around and watch Harden (and Chris Paul) do this…
#NeverBoston
I’m rooting for Ws because I want Nick Young to be a world champion, and JaVale McGee to be a back-to-back world champion. I believe it will force more people to abandon the #Ringz argument as a defining measure for individual players, or admit that Nick Young is better than Steve Nash and Reggie Miller ever were, and…
I don’t take any joy in the Warriors success, but damn if it isn’t satisfying watching a basketball team that effortlessly moves the ball destroy a team whose only gameplan is “iso with the occasional kick out to a shooter if I’m feeling generous.”
Seriously, what the fuck is with the Rockets? In game 2 they were cutting, screening, moving without the ball, making the extra pass, getting everybody involved...it was a fluid and exciting offense that actually looked pretty lethal.
“No, I rooted for Billy Zane.”
As a Wizards fan, it amuses me that Bean Burrito (Nick Young) is going to get a ring, and Epic Vale (JaVale McGee) is going to get a second. Also, among the many things I will never understand is why Ernie “Life Tenure” Grunfeld gave up on Shaun Livingston twice!, but needed to run right out and sign the likes of Eric…
This is the correct take. While the Warriors are completely unfair and have broken the NBA in many ways, at least they play an aesthetically pleasing brand of basketball. The Rockets play the most joyless and soulless basketball I have ever witnessed.
I will root for Arsenal in a friendly against a team of terminally ill children before I root for the Celtics.
The depressing thing is that if the Rockets ran an offense anything like the Warriors (hell, even like the SSOL Suns!) this would be one of the most fun series of all time. With all the legit shooters and scorers on the floor at any given moment, every game would be like 150-145 and be entertaining as all hell.
I’m not rooting for Boston. I want you to imagine what your average Celtics fan is going to be like if Brad Stevens grits his way past the Warriors. After Bill Simmons celebrates his 35th title since 2001. Think long and hard about the world you claim you want.
You can see, even in transition, the moment the ball hits Harden’s hands and he does the little hand wave, everything grinds to a fucking unbearable halt. It’s the basketball equivalent of a dude busting in on a conversation with, “Well, actually...”
Even if it’s right, I fucking hate it and want to set it on fire.
Albert Burneko is a strange name for a burner account, KD
Have you never read Deadspin before? Asking for all of us.
From a fan’s pure, giddy ‘oh my god this is fun to watch’ standpoint I think Steph going off for a 5-6 minute stretch is the most fun thing to watch since Barry Sanders would have one of those series where he made 4-5 defenders fully whiff on half a dozen consecutive plays. It’s worth watching any GS playoff game on…