Our Mindsets Had the Wrong Settings

After playing 20 inconsequential minutes, it seems El Machetero is in need of a machete sharpener! Nor am I alone; with the exception of Brandon Roy, each of my mates was badly outplayed by his counterpart on the Houston Rockets.

Perhaps our mindsets were set wrong. Our recent stringing together of blowouts caused me to forget one of Cervantes’ essential lessons: It seldom happens that felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of misfortune.

Of course, the author of Don Quixote never played in a seven-game series!