Harden And The Top Scorers In The League Assisted and Unassisted FGs

This is laughable.

The Rockets were good in 14-15 because everybody on the roster fulfilled their role capably.

The Rockets were mediocre this year because everybody but Harden and Capela fell woefully short of fulfilling their role capably.

It's so completely lazy to boil it down to "fire" and "grit" and "will to win" and "passion" and all those other narratives that people love to use.

 

I guess you haven't seen that DBZ gif yet

just curious, if harden sat out last year and all the rest of the teams best player sits out as well, how many teams do you think the rockets would have more wins?

 

That bottom three roster made it to the WCF the year before. Why is that?

You seen what happened when Durant was out , the Thunder didn't make the playoffs. You take any major Superstar off of their team, you can best believe they will be a bottom dweller. So of course if Harden didn't play this past season we would be hovering around the bottom. But then again who actually knows, Dwight and company could have stepped their games up and chemistry could've been better. We really just don't know.

 

Yes. Dwight Howard has a riveting history of enhancing team chemistry.

Well said.

 

My original question was if all team's best player sat last year, how many teams do you think the rockets have a better record against? i think just sixers and lakers. what you think?

 

When Harden was added it was after lock out season and the team went 34-32 and 10th in the West. At no point was this a bottom 3 team, otherwise the Rockets would have had a top 5 pick, of their own, at some point.

 

When Kobe went down again the Lakers rode the coattail of Dwight Howard.

The Magic went to the ECF with Dwight and a bunch of role players.

And yes Dwight was apart of the chemistry issues as well. Both him and Harden claimed to be the LEADERS of this team. They could not set aside their personal beef with one another for the betterment of the team. They failed this team miserable.

 

When and where did you ask this question? Or are you even following along with your own comments?

I can't tell you that for sure. ****tt you can't even give an answer to that because it never happened.

I do however remember a lot of you were saying we had a deep bench before the season started. Why because that same bench helped us make it to the WCF the season before. Dwight, Beverly and Jones were out and those damn scrubs stepped their games up. They played with great chemistry and wow was a top 10 defense.

 

We did. The bench was great last season. It was a primary factor why we were a good team.

Last year the bench was not great. In fact, they were one of the worst in the league. They were a primary factor why we were a mediocre team.

If Harden is the one who's responsible for the terrible play of virtually every player on the roster, then why are the role players even on the team? Shouldn't Les Alexander just pay Harden 100% of the team's salaries if that's the case? Why are the Rockets paying these guys millions of dollars if they don't even matter?

 

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They traded away Lowry, didn't resign Scola or Dragic or anyone who logged minutes at center. The only starter they brought back from that 34 - 32 juggernaut was a 2nd round draft pick with less than a full season experience. Many of the so called experts predicted the Rockets would challenge for the worst record in the West.

So yeah, Harden was added to a team with very low expectations and lead them to the play-offs.