Conservatism is inherently reactionary and therefore has nothing interesting to say artistically.

A team exec publicly said they were making risky decisions based on positive vibes???

Watching someone like Tari Eason crumble when left open in the corner even though for years we've looked at draft guys as 'oh stick him in the corner' like it's easy. We underappreciated PJ

One of the most frustrating experiences in sports when your fan base has a legitimate and reasonable gripe and the decision maker invalidates it and reframes it as something nonsensical and made up..fuck off

I see the Rockets played some rotten, selfish basketball tonight

This feels a bit like an article that was written pre last night's game and was published anyway.

Yeah stuff like this famously works well

Scottie Pippen quittin' ass bitch, get ready to learn Sacramento buddyb

This is why Reed Sheppard wasn't getting more minutes this season. He was guarding Luke Kennard here btw

Enjoyed Bill Simmons calling it bizarre the Rockets didn't trade for CJ McCollum this year and how he 'can't understand it' and this being the first time he's ever suggested that trade that we wouldn't have been able to pull off anyway. Playoffs season!

Everyone was bitching about Ime hating Reed (even though 27 mpg for a sophomore guard seems fine?) so I'm gonna need him to not look so scared in the playoffs. He was ass in the NCAA tournament, was so bad that game against the Warriors the starters had to come back in and is 6-24 this series

Ok maybe we should calm down

A good NBA role player can make 100m in 5 years but it's not enough is it. It's never enough. Every dollar made on these prediction markets is from the 1% picking on 99%. NBA stars and owners want to make money off your losses (and corruption)

Enjoyed Stan van Gundy's mini rant on the Zach Lowe show about sports scientists in the NBA in the debate about 65 games and resting players. You only have to look at how many players are cupping, using kt tape etc to know there's a bunch of junk pseudoscience around the league.

Feels like the whole nba medie ecosystem is pencilling in Denver in 3 and Houston/Lakers in the 4/5 matchup. I don't get it...to me, unfortunately, I think Lakers are favourites to finish 3rd.

Not a fan of the fact that if Houston are in a close game down the stretch in the playoffs and Kevin Durant is at the free throw line all of a sudden I have to be worried he is gonna choke. This is a career 89% FT shooter. I watched that fucker make 40 in a row against us in the 2018 playoffs

Okogie starting feels like a good compromise in the TarivReed debate. Okogie helps you with the defense and rebounding like Tari, and while not the ballhandler/shooter Reed is, hits open shots and has been great putting the ball on the floor and swinging it. Helps with the new, more fluid offense.

Wonder if that's the last of the Reed starting experiment after the debacle to start against Phoenix. Constantly losing minutes and against not particularly good teams.

"I wrote"

Might put some money on Milwaukee tonight just to cover myself if the Rockets embarrass themselves again

Of course he has

Suns fans wanted Frank Vogel fired after he somehow got that team to a top 10 defense, called Budenholzer a terrorist and now I see they've turned on Jordan Ott

It's 2am and the Rockets are up 24 with 10 minutes left and I'm still not sure it's safe to switch off and go to sleep

The Rockets are an embarrassment to my city. I don't even live in Houston I live in London. They are still an embarrassment to my city.

Given perfect parity your team will have won one title in 64 years. This is fine.

Read Sheppard was determined to lose that game tonight and by God if anyone was going to stop him

are you for fucking real

I don't know what Jabari Smith is doing right now but it cannot be called basketball

Zone was working. Do zone again. Don't stop thing that is working imo.

27 missed threes really was mental wasn't it

As someone who has always thought Collin Sexton was underrated this is very annoying

Fucking christ I just watched the Rockets game

We're so back boys

Ah, fun basketball! It's been so long old friend

Ok Reed show em what you got

Every march madness game I watch is like here we go 2 minutes left on the clock, Wichita State lead Ohiowa 70 to 68. Wichita haven't made a field goal in over 7 minutes. The head coach earns 10 million dollars a year and has made it out of the first round once since 2012

Honestly just sim to the offseason at this point and see what we can do with those Brooklyn and Phoenix picks.

The way Mike Johnson flinches and leans forward away from a backslap...Trump definitely gets him in a headlock and rubs his hair doesn't he. This is a man living in perpetual fear of the demeening hairrub

Phew. I was starting to worry that NBA owners and players weren't rich enough

Two biggest games of the season coming up. Two wins against a surging Lakers could really rescue the vibes you'd think. But two losses or honestly even just a split is kind of more of the same.

Btw when I was messing around with draft scouting on Twitter I said I wasn't nearly as high on Jabari as the consensus but I'd absolutely back him to take a shot with 1 minute left down 2 in a game 7. He continues to prove me correct. Big Shot Bari is real.

Ok KD

You know they're about to do something dumb

KD throwing up on himself turning the ball over late again is it

KD bricking a late free throw again is it

Dejounte Murray has been torching Amen

Dejounte Murray passing up open shots so he can let Reed recover to him cause he so clearly wants to cook him, but then bricks the shot lol

Amen Thompson shooting better from corner 3 than Dorian Finney-Smith is not a stat you want to be true this late into the season

I will not overrect to Amen playing in space against a team with no interior defense. I will not overreact to Amen playing in space against a team with no interior defense....