I’ve probably written this piece, or something very like it, before. That’s alright, sports have a certain amount of sameness to them. The same game, with the same rules, with the same goal in mind, will always produce results that resemble each other, while never being exactly the same. It’s part of why high level sports, or any sports, really, are so successful. Sports effortlessly achieve the ideal pattern of the Hollywood blockbuster: “The Same Thing, Only Different.”
This year’s Rockets were the same thing, only different. I’ll present what I think the differences are in the form of a dialog between me and a strawman a media composite figure I’ll call Skippy Berkeley Von Ringenberg.