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The Rockets in the playoffs this year is the worst basketball I've ever seen. Yet they won Game 3 which goes to show how thin GS really is.
I never said it was New York, I said it was world class, even without the tourist traps. We don't need a few restaurants, a sidewalk and a few boats next to or in a creek as well as a chapel and a garden in the middle of a mass of humanity to get people to live here and like it.
And if you think I'm just picking on San Antonio, we don't need the casinos of Vegas to make us important either. Houston is just a city where people button up their shirt or put on their hard hat and pick up their lunch box and go to work.
I'd love to live anywhere but Tornado Alley and the capital of the freeway system, OKC. I mean, you have the Thunder and..? OU? Oh that's right, that's in Norman. Even San Antonio has the Alamo, Riverwalk and the Spurs. Houston has flaws but it also has everything you want or need as a major city.They are also very defensive. Most people that live in the eastern part of Texas are re ed. Houston is a ing hole. Even the best part of Houston which are considered suburbs wish they weren't part of the "Greater Houston Area". That got djohn revealed he lived in SA yet pimps the out that hole. Dunno why. Also, I'd rather live in ing Moore OK and be open to die of tornadoes or a nuclear meth lab explosion then to be surrounded by re s and high heat.
No, I'll beat you to it...everything except an NBA team worth a [bleep]. Good one, though I saw it coming before you said it.
The Rockets in the playoffs this year is the worst basketball I've ever seen. Yet they won Game 3 which goes to show how thin GS really is.
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Golden State is without the best player on the planet and besides they're success is partially a product of how watered down the league it. They'd be 62-20 in Michael Jordan's/Hakeem Olajuwon's NBA.
We already knew Golden State isn't very good without Curry. That team is all about Curry's individual brilliance.
That's the difference between GSW and SAS. Take away GS's leading scorer and they're a 6th-8th seed type of team. Take away SA's leading scorer and you're still a top tier team.
If you don't want to talk smack, then don't get in the ring. You started it, even if in good fun, by poking fun at Houston and how it was nuked in Independence Day. So don't get mad when I put San Antonio back in its place. I'll take Dallas-Fort Worth smack talk over San Antonio's. You have the Spurs and...
Golden State is like the Rockets without Yao years back. Really good but not good enough to win without its big star.
You're old man yelling at a cloud with your Curry take. There was no one in the league in 1995 who you had to worry about hitting 35 foot shots at a high percentage, lol at the idea that the Warriors are 10 games weaker in 1995. Yeah, Kenny Smith is going to shut Wardell down.
They're not really good without their big star, they just lost a game to a team that's basically quit the season.
And the Rockets were never good with or without Yao, they haven't been relevant since the Olajuwon era.
The Rockets win back-to-back championships if Yao wasn't yet another faulty, easily broken production from China. They went 19-7 without Yao in a conference where the 6th best team had Shaq and Nash and won 54 games, the Rockets were legit in '08 and '09.
Maybe they lose to the Celtics in '08 but it would have been a uva series.
Curry would be Reggie Miller or Ray Allen in 90's NBA, he would not be the best player, though he'd be damn exciting.You're old man yelling at a cloud with your Curry take. There was no one in the league in 1995 who you had to worry about hitting 35 foot shots at a high percentage, lol at the idea that the Warriors are 10 games weaker in 1995. Yeah, Kenny Smith is going to shut Wardell down.
Neither of them had Curry's range
They're not really good without their big star, they just lost a game to a team that's basically quit the season.
And the Rockets were never good with or without Yao, they haven't been relevant since the Olajuwon era.
Aaron Brooks going off on Fisher in one series doesn't mean you'd win the le with your soft center back. The 2015 Hawks and 1996 Spurs went on big win streaks like the 2008 Rockets, but they weren't le contenders either.
The Rockets may not have lost another game until the Finals if Yao stays healthy. Look what they did without him and having only Deke and Chuck Hayes as starters.
So? I'm sure the better coaches back then would have had better defenses for him, unless he was playing on the Rockets, Bulls, Jazz, Knicks, Duncan Spurs, Shaq Magic, Sonics or Shaq Lakers in which case there would be too many other weapons you simply couldn't leave open.Neither of them had Curry's range
As I said, 62-20 in that era of NBA, maybe 67-15 if everything goes right. And notice, no one except three Bulls teams won 65 games or more in the 90's. No one else even approached 70 wins. It's become pretty routine in the last decade or so.
We just don't know but don't dismiss the possibility.
That's pretty specious reasoning there. One thing to consider is the way teams are built is greatly changed from how it was in the 90s. The maximum salary restriction from the 1999 collective bargaining agreement is one huge reason for that. The max salary greatly undervalues the elite players in this league. Under a 90s style salary cap there is no way you could have put that 66 win Heat team together, as James and Wade would be pulling at least twice the max salary and with the numbers Bosh was putting up in Toronto, he would have been pulling signifcantly more than the max too. Or look at the rookie scale contracts that keep players from being able to negotiate anything close to market value. That allowed the 65 win 2009 Lakers to be paying Bynum chump change. Well, that and Kobe playing for a lot less than he would get under a 90s style collective bargaining agreement (Gasol too). The 67 and 73 win 2015 and 2016 Warriors were just dumb luck, e.g., Curry having a lot of ankle injuries allowing them to sign him to a really cheap deal. The 67 win 2016 Spurs come from players taking huge paycuts, specifically Duncan, Ginobili, and West (though Green took a significant one as well). I can't recall anyone but Robinson taking a large paycut in the 90s (which Mourning got butthurt over
I don't understand the NBA is weak argument. They added one team in the last 20 years but have a larger pool of talent worldwide now. Meanwhile in the 90s you had four recent expansion teams with less overseas talent to fill out NBA rosters. You can point towards bigmen being phased out of the game, but there was nowhere near the level of shooting there is now.But the NBA was better because Derek Harper could throw his forearm into guys and Rick Mahorn could clothesline people going in the lane.
I loved 90s ball too, but it's not the greatest decade because your team won twice.
Doesn't excuse the fact a good chunk of their fans have never seen a treadmill.
While true, Houston is full of fat bas s too. Our cities are partners in lard.
I thought the Comets had a bunch of les. I remember that late 90s - early 00s era when all the Rockets fans talked about how they liked WNBA ball so much better than seeing Shaq dunk.
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