Well said.

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I’m genuinely curious: does no one care that Harden refuses to shake opponents hands after a loss? Does he ever shake hands after a game? Do we not care about those kinds of things anymore?

2019 is worse. Houston had all their starters. Durant was out. Curry was hobbled at the end. 2018 may have been more surprising, but last night was pathetic.

I’m genuinely curious: does no one care that Harden refuses to shake opponents hands after a loss? Does he ever shake hands after a game? Do we not care about those kinds of things anymore?

Sure, sport. You going to produce a supercut of all the uncalled offensive fouls the Rockets committed last night? You’re talking like no one else saw the game, that we’re relying on you to write up a report for the newspaper. No one else thinks the Rockets were robbed in this one. _CHAMP_. 

I’m impressed at how dumb your take is. Accusing the _other_ team of finessing the rules and “stealing games”. Using _this_ series as your proof that super-flopper CP3 and The Disappearing Beard are “not soft”. You got moxy, kid, I’ll give you that.

Future HOFer ... and 3 rings... but sure, “a good dude” okay

Two questions answered:

Don’t worry, CP3 will flop and blame the salary on someone else

“Shame on me for trusting the machine” -every Rockets fan, tonight

for long stretches of game it seems all Harden and CP have is that chip on their shoulders

But it’s hard to score more points when you have to continue whining at the refs while the other team scores on the other end of the court. The refs should know this and award extra points to the Rockets.

Yes, the landing foul is a landing foul when it is a landing foul. If he has to jump forward 4 feet and kick his legs out to draw contact, that ain’t a landing foul.

“The Warriors do the exact same thing”

Yes, he does it more than other star players

That makes no sense. When we’re talking the same game, the same teams, the same officials, and the same kinds of calls on both teams, yes, absolutely it applies. Just as many calls missed for the Warriors on the same kinds of plays. They DO cancel each other out.

so much flopping that people don’t bother to mention his offensive fouls: full-elbow-extension push-offs and reckless sprints into the lane to collide with whatever he wants

The fact that you did not know to whom they were referring and emphatically chose to defend Harden...

And Chris Paul played rugby for a quarter. What’s your point?