ClutchFans Game Thread: Rockets @ Wizards 2/23/2013

Oh really? Did Harden choose to come to Houston? Certainly not in any direct terms. Check your history. He was shocked and a bit hurt when he was told by OKC that he had been traded.

Notably though, he seemed ready for it and has made the best of what happened.

 

If say Howard was to come here it wouldn't matter too much because a lot of that drama is who takes the last shot.

Howard won't want the ball in the clutch because the other team will just foul him. He'd be ecstatic to give the ball to James.

 

He came to Houston because we had the best offer for th Thunder. It's not like harden told the thunder front office to trade him to the rockets because they have no other first option stars.

 

Thats like saying that if someone had 10 TO's, "they had a decent game with the exception of TO's". It doesn't work that way, you need to look at their overall play and Lin's overall play that night was freakin terrible.

 

Harden has always said if the Thunder had given him his max offer he would have stayed and retained the role he had before. And the difference is Melo and Kobe have always been known as selfish players.

 

No, he came to Houston because Presti was being an idiot for giving Harden 1 hour to consider OKC's offer.

 

What's wrong? There is no highlight yet for best D-Mo game performance?

 

Talks about ref calls (Paul needed time to calm down on this aspect of the game), Beverley, DMo &the bench, qtr by qtr review, Jeremy.

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did you guys see james harden defense throughout the whole game?

it was great!!!

trevor ariza had a hard time scoring and bradley beal.

 

Harden is worst defender on the team! He doesn't fight through screens, doesn't dive after loose balls and when he gets frustrated on offensive end it translates to giving up on defense

 

Post game interviews. CP + JLin + McHale.

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So that was the reason he came here and not to any other team? The guy was saying he came here because he didn't want to be a third option, the thunder decided he had to accept the offer fast or get traded.

 

Look at the face he posted at the end (rolling eyes), I'm pretty sure he was being sarcastic

 

You guys are making me scared that Harden will go running off when his contract ends.

 

He was really hustling in half court offense, great to see. Otoh he was less of an asset on transition defense. Still room to improve there.

 

Lol why is that? And luckily there's still 5 seasons after this until we get to that situation :grin:

 

Because he never chose to come here lol

 

The loss to Wizards is not all bad. The Wizards won against good teams like Clippers, Knicks, Nuggets, Nets and Rockets but lost to ****ty teams like Raptors, Pistons and Kings in the last 30 days.

 

he didn't have to sign an extension with us

 

Lol what we are saying is he came to Houston because we offered the thunder the best offer and they accepted; not because harden didn't want to be a third option and saw us as a place where he could be the star.