Harden 895 assist this season compared to K. Leonard 901 assists for his career

Incredible, now let's compare defense.

DD

 

Leonard has Parker and guards lol

 

Different players with different roles so you can't use Assists as a comparison for MVP.

This is some Skip Brainless, Chris "sauces" Brousstard level of thinking. Unimpressive.

 

If you look at all the Spurs championships....Defense was always better than Offense and Offense was Top 8 always.

Team Assists is average. It used to be Parker, Mills, Hill, Ginobili sharing the rock. Some are gone or old.

They do not rebound that much without Duncan.

 

I think the argument is that Harden is so far and above what Kawhi is on offense.

A lot of Kawhi-MVP people say "His offense compares to that of Westbrook and Harden." and no, no it doesn't. It's not even really close.

Kawhi is leagues better defensively than Harden (And most of the league honestly) but Harden is leagues better than Kawhi on offense.

 

Regardless of comparisons to Harden, I do find it very interesting that if Kashi wins the MVP, he would have the lowest Assists Per Game of any player in history who wasn't a Center. PFs included. I'm talking just a few Centers had less. And Hakeem isn't one of them. Hell, Nowitzki had as many assists as Kawaii

 

Haha, but the defense is not a good comparison, Kawhi just has bigger hands and longer arms nothing James can do about that. I say overall game. Looks like overall Harden is better at offense and assisting while Kawhi is denfense and some offense. Hardens defense isn't bad, but its not as elites as Kawhi's. Usually when a good player lacks they make up for it in other way. Only 901 assist for the career is not bad at all but it just shows you how great of a player Harden really is to get 895 in a season and how he pretty much is deferring for the betterment of the team.

 

Incredibly lazy post.

Here's another one.

 

In terms of scoring Kawhi caught up - I guess 26 ppg is really close.

I won't say leagues better because Kawhi's job is not running the team, he is a friggin Small Forward.

I would say he is just ordinarily better than Kawhi on Offense.

The Spurs run a system in which everyone is involved and asked to pass.

Harden improved his rebounding, but rebounding can fall under Defense and Offense.

The Usage Rate: 1st Russell 2nd Harden 3rd Kawhi - Somewhere down the line is Lebron

This will make Stats look better but Kawhi has time to rest up for the playoffs actually.

OKC and Rox use alot more possessions than Spurs I would imagine.

 

Morey has really left his mark on the fans here, what's with the number obsession?? Who cares about averages, triple-doubles etc. I care about wins and entertaining games and isn't that what it's all about?

 

harden averages 7 defensive rebounds per game and kawhi averages 4.5

 

His position though is irrelevant. Lebron is better than Kawhi on offense, so is Durant, they are SFs. Your position doesn't mean you have to be bad or good at a thing.

He's leagues better than Kawhi on offense, yes, PPG he caught up, but assists which are points created also Harden is leagues better as this stat shows. The reason Kawhi likely isn't asked to create much on offense could be that he simply can't and Pop as a smart coach isn't going to put him in situations and ask him to do things he can't do.

 

This is a two edged sword IMHO.

Let us say Harden can do both very well and rebound to boot.

That means he is more valuable to the team but on the other hand he is very likely to get gassed and easily susceptible to small injuries.

He swore to himself to do too much. I think it will impact him in the playoffs, not necessarily the first round but Westbrook is going to drain him.

Second round the Spurs awaits. You would probably need a legit second playmaker.

 

Harden 460 turnovers this season compared to K. Leonard 541 turnovers for his career.