Recency Bias Be Damned, P.J. Tucker Has Declared The Rockets' Small-Ball Lineup The Best In The NBA5/17/2018
While I typically find the practice of professional athletes declaring their team the absolute best at one thing or another to be rooted in some combination of bias and insecurity, if you're living in the moment and literally only this exact moment then it's tough to argue with P.J. Tucker on this one. I mean, if there were even one hypothetical small-ball lineup that could match what the Rockets did last night don't you think they would have done it last night? Sure, the three undersized players chosen to compliment Houston's stars were damn near impossibly efficient in a way that would make a video game technician go back to the drawing board, and put all of their season and career long point totals and shooting percentages to shame, but whose to say that they can't continue to do so? What, other than simple math and common sense, is going to stop them? It's certainly not going to be the team whose four year reign with what's widely considered the scariest collection of skill and shooting in NBA history quite obviously came to an end last night. What the hell have they done since Monday night at approximately 11PM? In all seriousness, I can't say I'm surprised. We all heard how the Houston Rockets were built to compete with the Golden State Warriors in the playoffs well before they did. Now that they have an actual win under their belts, it only makes sense that those screams for respect have grown louder. Personally, I wouldn't poke the beast just prior to entering into the natural habitat in which it has heartlessly ripped so many teams limb from limb that it got nicknamed after homicide. But hey, maybe P.J. Tucker knows something we don't about the super small sample size that is the entirety of his eight year career, or sixteen virtually meaningless seasons watching Trevor Ariza. It's all about chemistry anyway, and what could the Golden State Warriors possibly know about moving the ball in a way that maximizes their talent that the Rockets haven't already taught themselves while watching their backcourt dribble the air out of a one-dimensional offense?
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