Zach Lowe: Rockets interested in Lauri Markkanen

False - some warriors even admitted that they knew they were in serious trouble until Paul went down.

 

He got smashed in every finals, well all 2 of them

 

They didn’t miss 27 straight 3s, harden made one in that stretch. You can pretend that foster would have let us win if you want but i don’t live in your fantasy world, i live here.

 

Because he didn’t have help. You replace Wemby with prime Kobe and they don’t fare much better.

 

Yes they missed 27 straight 3’s. I said nothing about Foster and that’s not the point at all. The point is the style, team construction, and philosophy simply didn’t work.

 

But they “lost” to the best team ever. Every other team also would have lost to them, doesn’t mean every team outside of the kd warriors ever is a failure. I don’t see how cp3 getting hurt and foster being incandescent means the style didn’t work.

 

why hasn't firestone traded for markanen yet? is he even gm-ing?

 

Sources? Or are you just going to ignore them laughing at us and how easy it was in all of the interviews and on Draymond's podcast? Face it dude, you're holding on to a fantasy that most of the rest of us have since moved on from. It now makes sense why you're so obsessed with estimates rather than statistics though, full blown Morey fan boy confirmed.

 

“To the victor goes the spoils” as they say. The Warriors won so they can say whatever they want. But to claim a seven game series was easy or that another team’s star going down didn’t matter is laughable. Hell when Klay and KD got hurt vs Toronto, they got their asses kicked. Did those injuries matter?

Draymond also claims that they would have beaten Jordan’s 72 win Bulls team and the Shaq & Kobe Lakers squad too. So Draymond says a lot. He’s a big talker.

But the Warriors had a dominant run and again it allows you to claim whatever you want. That’s the beauty of winning a chip. Whe you lose like the Harden’s Rockets did, you have to shut the hell up.

 

So basically a lot of waffle that basically says "I'm still bitter?" Move on dude, the rest of us have.

 

Bro I’ve moved on long ago. We haven’t won squat here since 1995. BOTTOM LINE. Nothing to be bitter about with 2018 that’s BEEN OVER. It’s been 30 years since the last chip.

To me, Draymond is a millionaire talking ish. Nothing to see with that. He won. Period. Just like our Fred Van Vleet can talk ish to him. Because he got a ring over those same Warriors.

Im waiting on the Rockets next championship. It’s really all that matters. And right now we ain’t close.

 

We were good but our style, philosophy, and personnel limitations caught up to us in the end. I believe we could still win even without CP3. Valiant run but fell short.

To put things in perspective we missed 9 straight 3s to close out the half. 14 straight in the 3rd. And 4 straight in the 4th. Many of those misses resulted in transition points for the Warriors. We also shot 63% on 2s. Dantoni said he wanted to "keep them at bay" with 3s when Warriors went on huge runs.

We certainly stuck to a philosophy which gave us the best record but also led our their demise.

 

Someone lit fire under his stone?

 

Maybe his stones are on fire. Sounds painful.

 

Caveman way of thinking.

If you win a ring with documented cases of bear hugging screens and undercutting jump shooters you best believe there will be **** talking.

A tournament ring is a result of team, officiating, opponent injuries, and opponent matchups. You "won" but in the case of 2018 that makes you God about as much as robbing a bank makes you an entrepreneur.

 

Again, the rockets made one during that stretch. 27 is a myth. What about the ones that were fouls? I don’t remember now but there were 4-5 very blatant fouls on 3s that were “missed”. Foster/silver were not going to let the warriors lose, period. Blows my mind that you think foster officiated that game fairly

 

If Harden had Baron Markkanen playing with him in 2018 the Rockets would have been unstoppable.

 

I never said any of that. I am only going by what was reported and vetted by the news agencies. I simply said that their philosophy was flawed. If they drove more and handed it physically to the Warriors instead of passively shooting 3s and allowing them to play off the break and go on large runs, the outcome likely would be different.

 

Ok, obviously we disagree on foster. They took the best team ever to 7 games, one of the most impressive things i have seen in this sport. Lebron in TWO finals series won a total of ONE game against them. Idk what the hell this news agency nonsense you’re babbling about either