What is the relevance of the statement “The hobbled Warriors turned out to be pretty good” to the prospects of the Rockets (and, sure, Lakers) in the West next year? Is that the question?

Let’s see. In proclaiming the Lakers legit contenders, you dismissed the Rockets on the basis that they were not as good this year…

You really excel at this using language thing. Which “couple” of role players are you referring to, in the formulation of your question? What about whichever “couple” players mentioned in my post am I comparing to the Paul and Durant injuries? What, or where, is the comparison you’re referring to?

Do you suppose I don’t realize the series went 7 last year? Do you suppose I am an idiot? That I have amnesia? That I started watching basketball this year? That, in spite of this, I am a member of Warriors organization? “We” went to 7 and I was...in a coma? On a bender? Unable to count?

Correction: The hobbled Warriors almost forced a game 7 in the Finals. It’s fair to say that a less-hobbled Warriors team—minus Durant, but otherwise healthy for the series--would, according to popular belief, have pushed the series to 7. At least. The Rockets took two games off the unhobbled Warriors. As a Warriors…

Came back to say I realized I’d briefly confused you with the other guy (literally), the joke guy, rendering my comment from mildly relevant and clever to, really, neither. Carry on with your curmudgeonly opinions, then.

Stick to jokes.

Just doing it for the love of the form of the internet comment, are you?

Offhandedly? Earn their paychecks. (I know, I know: they earn their paychecks by bringing eyeballs, not by actually being good.)

Trying to do too much in too little space is in fact a writing problem—form is function, the medium is the message, etc., etc.—especially if, as here, the shortened space is imposed by the writers themselves.

Ditto, with the important exception that I decided to watch only the last season like an annoying a-hole. It is as stupid as you think it is. Really, really fucking stupid.

I believe I’ve mostly read your basketball posts, but I find this turn toward film/cultural criticism to suit you very, very well.

See what I mean? “He comes across as petty and oversensitive.” Re-read your post, man. Why’s it gotta be this way?

This was the point at which you became amusingly (given the substance of your initial critiques) defensive, revealing, I daresay, that you might possess a certain level of sensitivity yourself. It seems you can’t really take a non-insulting counterargument from a stranger on the internet—who, again, didn’t insult…

Wouldn’t it be nice? It’s, um, funny to be dissecting middle-school-ish lyrics without also re-visiting old hubby’s Beach Boys records. (Lyrically, I’m saying. Don’t stone me, Beach Boys lovers.)

Yes, exactly. Watch the vid of the owner reading her statement last night. The crowd is quiet when she says the behavior is unacceptable, then cheers when she adds “...because we aren’t racist.”

Thank god for context. Without it, “in possession of a vagina” sounds plausibly sinister.

1/10.

It’s not a good starting 5. This is not hard to understand.

Actually, he was shitting on you, specifically, for coming across like a man-child, a doofus, a moron, a fool. Your use of shorthand spelling—distinct from grammar, I’m afraid—was the evidence he chose as neatly representing your oafishness, your boobery. Further discourse on shorthand grammar, as you mention, might…

Let me see here...carry the one...yeah, “two bitter championship series against each other not even ten years ago”?