What did CP say?

I was fitting into the "Bulls overcome the Pistons after several years of torture and 7th game loss," "Pistons overcome the Lakers after 7-game loss," slot ... classic rematch situations, Duke/UNLV, Ali/Frazier ... overcoming and getting over hump. Nope. Wrong. But fun.

Issue is rockets are old and probably already peaked due to cp3 while many of your other examples teams were coming into their own.

good point

i got chills watching this game 6. i never got chillls watching ncaa basketball. i hate clowns who say they are basketball fans but not nba fans. such a joke.

This is the worst part my dude. You lose to the Warriors and the slander hurts more than the loss.

Maybe I don't want my team to face them.

Draymond is the under the radar story, those PnR's where he gets the 4 on 3 nobody is better.

They should just tell KD to gtfo and get back to that

He's been like a top 6 player all playoffs, Iggy close to top 10.

Bunch'a sandbaggers those guys.

With that said, I really, really disliked them rotating to Iggy in the corner and leaving Klay. I don't care if he's 5-8, making him take a pressure shot.

This is such a garbage take. They had to win 1 of 2 last year with game 7 being at home VS winning 2 in a row with game 7 on the road. They also missed 27 ****ing 3s in a row in game and still lost by just 9 in game 7.

2p2, and by extension TZ, has a real problem with refusing to give props, instead settling for ****ting on the losing team. The Celtics weren’t an awful team. They were a decent team who got beat by a far superior team. Houston didn’t choke or anything stupid like that. They got beat because GS was better than them. GS is better than a lot of teams. It’s ok to acknowledge that.

dude, they had a healthy paul this year sans durant and lost at home....

Well, Celts did lose 4 games by like 80 points and their best player shot 30%.

But I generally agree with your point. Philly is another 1, the team needs to be broken up after every playoff loss.

This is an excellent post. In the TZ world there are no winners, just bigger losers.

Yeah, pretty much.

I agree, the general sentiment over the internet is to clown on teams when they lose, in particular if your team is already out of it. I'm guilty of it too, although I only went after Boston because their TZ representatives were acting like it was over against a clearly superior team.

There's just a negative vibe with sports fandom that doesn't set well with me. Take the Porland/Denver series, Portland LOCAL NEWS has basically run smear campaigns on every little detail, every questionable foul or scuffle, and painted it in such a negative light that it becomes borderline hate-speech.

Take the following event :



Portland media is making WB out to be dirty for "poking Seth in the eyes", as is Seth himself.

I can see it from both sides:

Will Barton : almost gets his knee hyperextended after a play (flop, really good one btw, respect), while he's trying to gather himself he gets pushed lightly so he pushes lightly back. Then Seth comes gets into his face so he gives him the old finger-to-the-face push that even I've done on several occasions, usually before delivering squaring up.

Seth : His guy is down and he sees WB standing over him taking his time, lightly pushes him back, but then Barton pushes him and he's like "wtf don't come at me" and gets in his face.

Seems perfectly understandable on both ends, but fan-bases and local media are making both out as villains. I'm not even worried about that part, everyone has to make a living, it's more that the fans eat that **** up and (imo) actually believe that type of stuff. I know it's just sports, but I feel like there are some issues with humanity that I find unsettling about all this.

sorry for that tangent. Tough luck Rockets, I was more afraid of your team than the KD-less Warriors, but that's mainly because of the unknown with GSW and knowing Denver has never had an answer for Harden.

It looks like it will in fact not be the end of that lol

agreed. you have to make sure you pick your spots when you slander. for example:

You guys are both wrong - the Rockets has Ariza last year (and Warriors no Iggy) and only had to win 1 game instead of 2. The situations aren’t analogous and you look silly for thinking it does.

There’s a big difference between being terrible and playing terrible. Kyrie is a really good player who had an abysmal series and it completely sunk the Cs.

Lol at people hating on the Rockets for losing to a KDless GSW - the narratives around this are unreal. It's the ****ing Golden State Warriors.

Claims that this has any relevance to last year's series might be even worse, impressively enough.

Listened to Draymond's postgame (it'll be up soon). I think he's replaced Kobe as my #1 favorite player to listen to after games. He just gives great answers and not the usual bs.

*looks around*

I think still they would have won last year if CP3 didn't get hurt

*backs away*

WOYAS balled the **** out. Some #strengthinnumbers **** half 1 lol. Bench was great. Couldn’t be happier to be wrong about that. Put some respect on Steph Curry’s name mother ****ers

Heartily agree with both of these.

I think that's obviously a fine take. It's more that this series has nothing to do with last year's beyond storylines and narratives. If the Rockets had won g6/7 here, it wouldn't prove or support the argument they win last year with CP3, just like GSW winning today doesn't mean a whole lot about 2018.

So we have to applaud the rockets is what I'm gathering? lol