Yeah nope they could hit Harden over the head with a steel chair and I wouldn’t give a fuck

If officials do a bad job applying a rule that nobody likes towards a player that abuses the hell out of it, should we be upset?

You cannot kick your legs into a defender. Technically it’s an offensive foul. Landing zone does not apply to kicking forward. He also was contorting his body before any possible contact was made.

You mentioned uncalled closeout fouls and then show two videos of Harden moving forward into the defender’s space during the shot. How can a defender be jumping into Harden’s space when he himself is closing the gap?

Houston had the third highest free throw to field goal attempt ratio. Golden State is 23rd. You are defining motivated reasoning.

Zero sympathy for a pair of professional flop merchant crybabies who play the basketball equivalent of Let Me Speak To Your Manager and apparently have never heard of the boy who cried wolf. Let them lose in 4.

James Harden can eat a whole bag of dicks.

Definite intentional contact to the ref by CP3. That second vid is clear as day

Stop looking for excuses to not eject Chris Paul from a game.

The officiating in this game made it damn near unwatchable, and not because of how bad it was, but due to how Mark Jackson and Jeff Van Gundy somehow managed to reach an entirely new level of annoying because of it.

It’s hard to tell with that angle, but on an in-game replay, it looked like Paul bumped the official on the sideline, which could have drawn the T, even if he didn’t say anything:

While shooting a potential game-tying three, Harden tried to get a close-out foul called against Draymond Green and jumped forward about four feet so that he would land against his defender.

Watching James Harden not get the foul calls he’s used to is the most reliable joy the NBA playoffs can offer.

So, he’s the reverse Doc Rivers then.

So...just seeing Pop triggers your snowflake ass. Sounds about right. Conservatives are the most delicate, cowardly, sensitive, incapable of handling any difference of opinion people in the history if the world.

Good showing by Demar “Game 7" Derozen and LaMarcus “Wow I Didn't Help The Spurs At All And Portland Has Been Just As Good Without Me” Aldridge 

this is a cool and normal thing to be worried about 

Well sure, you say that now....

Why, it’s almost as if the level of analysis on this site is informed primarily by the capriciousness of recency bias.

I can think of more than one reason that Beverly and Williams would shower praise on Durant, just 2 months before free agency...