Just … don’t.

Don’t start with the “T-Mac was holding the Rockets back,” and the, “I knew they’d win as soon as he was gone” nonsense, because it’s not even clever or correct.

In the simplest terms, yes, one of Tracy McGrady’s teams finally got past the first round of the playoffs, and they did it while McGrady was nowhere in sight. And so to some, the easy conclusion is that the Rockets won BECAUSE Mac was out, when the truth is that they won DESPITE Mac being out. Read More »

Ray Allen makes ridiculous shots on a regular basis. But his 51-point outing last night was an entirely different animal. The shot he hits over Ben Gordon at 0:10 on this video can only be hit by Ray Allen – no one else on the planet makes that. And the crazy thing is that he made knocked down that same exact type of shot like five times in increasingly clutch situations throughout the game.

When the TV broadcast is breaking out footage of Suns/Celtics from 1976, and the people you’re watching the game with are starting to cite the Syracuse/UConn six-overtime epic, you know you’re watching a classic NBA playoff game. Celtics/Bulls last night was simply incredible, going three overtimes before the Bulls pulled out the win to force a Game 7 in Boston. (Which, sadly, we can see being a Celtics’ blowout, but we’ll cross that bridge when we get to it.) … Read More »