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The Rockets won Game 3 against the Warriors on Thursday night, which seemed to actually piss them off. Houston’s inevitable loss in the series will now be waylaid for another game in Oakland, and Charles Barkley’s hysterical telestrated prophecy about the rest of this series ended up being wrong.
SAVAGE. Charles Barkley buried the #Rockets alive on Inside The NBA last night…
(via @NBAonTNT) pic.twitter.com/VZCZYmCwVh— Dime Magazine (@DimeMag) April 19, 2016
But Rockets general manager Daryl Morey wasn’t to happy about all of us focusing on his disgruntled team’s stone face after James Harden’s go-ahead shot, rather than the big dubya at home.
Big win to keep series on serve&folks are worried about grading cheer technique&execution when there is still time left on the clock? OK
— Daryl Morey 🗽🏀 (@dmorey) April 22, 2016
And Rockets CEO Tad Brown went after Houston’s loudest and most silly hater on TNT, former Rockets player Charles Barkley.
https://twitter.com/tadbbrown/status/723372561032073217
If you didn’t know, Barkley spent the last four seasons of a Hall-of-Fame career with Houston. He averaged a paltry-for-him 16.5 points per game (he was at 22.1 for his career) and didn’t mesh well on the court with his Big Three teammates, an aging Scottie Pippen and injury-struck Hakeem Olajuwon. Plus, Pippen and Charles weren’t so fond of each other at the time.
Pippin even called Barkley out for his lack of dedication, but he did it with more biting rhetoric.
We think Chuck got what was coming to him. He was never in shape for those Houston teams, despite making $9 million in his final season (the largest single-season haul of his career), and Brown was just reiterating what Scottie and many others knew about Chuck’s conditioning in those final seasons on the court. Plus, Barkley isn’t exactly the most astute or prescient commentator, especially when it comes to the Warriors. Still, the Round Mound of Rebound was just reiterating what so many others already know about this season’s Houston team: They’re dead men walking.
