I’m not even going to talk about how much of a REVENGE GAME this was for Isaiah Taylor even though it was totally a REVENGE GAME because of how greatly he desired to show the Rockets that they were wrong for ever getting rid of him. He’s looking at the scrubs on the Rockets, those in the position he was in last year, and saying “I’m twenty times better than R.J. Hunter! Why don’t I prove it!”.
Instead, I’m going to talk about how outrageous concession prices are around the league. This is a problem with all entertainment venues with a captive audience, but the NBA fancies itself a progressive league, so they could set a precedent by not bending over the paying fans. There is no reason a pretzel, which is like 10 cents worth of dough, max, should cost 6 bucks. And then the soda that you need to make sure you don’t die while consuming it is another 6! That’s 12 bucks just for a salty snack without the risk of biotic termination. That is not acceptable. Luckily I’ve devised a plan to strap beef jerky rods onto my arms and legs, to go along with my portable water purifier so I can procure drinkable water from the toilets, so I’m ready to go for most games. But not everyone is as enterprising as I.
But back to Isaiah Taylor. He might be good? He has, certainly, had some very nice games for the Hawks. It’s late in the season, and the Hawks are tanking really super-duper hard, but 26 points, most of it in non-garbage time, has to mean something. Even if that something is that Harden can’t even defend a barely-in-the-league midget shooting guard who made all of 1 bucket last year.