{"id":45878,"date":"2018-05-20T10:30:36","date_gmt":"2018-05-20T14:30:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=45878"},"modified":"2020-08-07T10:31:01","modified_gmt":"2020-08-07T14:31:01","slug":"contrary-to-cobra-kai-logic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=45878","title":{"rendered":"Contrary to Cobra Kai logic"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The best defense is not always more offense.\u00a0 Sometimes the best defense, is actually defense.<\/span><\/p>\n

Now if you told me that the Houston Rockets lost to the Golden State Warriors by 41 points, I\u2019d have just kind of gone \u2018meh.\u2019\u00a0 Everyone gets blown out by the Golden State Warriors these days, and seldom are there any final scores that aren\u2019t a 1-2 point nail-biter or a 20+ point blowout.\u00a0 The Memphis Grizzlies lost a game by 61 points<\/a> earlier this year, so 41 sounds like a tight contest in comparison.<\/span><\/p>\n

But add in the fact that this happened in the Western Conference Finals and that the Houston Rockets were the #1 seed getting throttled by the #2 Warriors, and now it\u2019s (sort of) worth talking about how pathetic the NBA is once again.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Rockets and Warriors aren\u2019t just the #1 and #2 in the Western Conference, they\u2019re pretty much the #1 and #2 teams in all of the NBA.\u00a0 The Boston Celtics are somehow managing to win and play well in spite of all their injuries, and the Cleveland Cavaliers are where they are because they\u2019re always at this point every year mostly on the sheer will of LeBron James, but neither is remotely a threat to the championship.<\/span><\/p>\n

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And honestly, despite my general disdain for superteams, I do think the championship is the Warriors\u2019 to lose, despite them being the lower seed.\u00a0 The Rockets are good, and James Harden is an incredible player, but the entire team\u2019s fortune rest solely on one man, whom if he doesn\u2019t take 50 shots a game and sink 20 of them, the team will lose, period full stop.\u00a0 The Warriors might not have had as many wins going into the playoffs, but it\u2019s hard to argue that they weren\u2019t the better team, and if it\u2019s not Durant scoring 30, it\u2019s Steph Curry scoring 30, and if it\u2019s not Steph Curry, then Klay Thompson is scoring 30.\u00a0 Teams beat great players on a regular basis.<\/span><\/p>\n

But still though.\u00a0 The Rockets didn\u2019t land a #1 seed for nothing, so it\u2019s pathetic to see them get blown out by 41 points in an unofficial championship playoff game.\u00a0 The Warriors are undoubtedly as good of a team as a superteam should be, but the Rockets were still good enough to land a #1 seed, you\u2019d think that they\u2019d be good enough not get humiliated to the tune of getting blasted by 41 points.\u00a0 But in today\u2019s Cobra Kai NBA, where it\u2019s solely offense and nobody knows how to play defense, it\u2019s rarely a battle of team versus team these days, as much as it\u2019s teams versus themselves, and whether or not they can sink shots and free throws better than the other team can.<\/span><\/p>\n

I look forward to the day when an NBA coach comes around and decides to try this brand new revolutionary tactic called defense, and then lands a massive multi-million dollar contract for basically employing typical Pat Riley coaching strategies, and is revered as this genius of a tactician as a result.\u00a0 And the saddest thing is that it\u2019s not a matter of if this ever happens, but when, because what\u2019s old will always become new again, and eventually we\u2019ll see some 81-75 final scores like the Knicks and Heat used to do in the 90s.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The best defense is not always more offense.\u00a0 Sometimes the best defense, is actually defense. Now if you told me that the Houston Rockets lost to the Golden State Warriors by 41 points, I\u2019d have just kind of gone \u2018meh.\u2019\u00a0 Everyone gets blown out by the Golden State Warriors these days, and seldom are there … Continue reading Contrary to Cobra Kai logic<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[59,45,133,52,49],"class_list":["post-45878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-basketball","tag-fail","tag-old-man","tag-owned","tag-wtf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45878"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45878\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45880,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45878\/revisions\/45880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}