We should have had one easily. Media narrative won against the facts. http://nyloncalculus.com/2016/05/19/patterns-in-all-nba-team-voting/
The facts that Harden came in out of shape, showed little effort in several games, played minimal defense, had massive live ball turnover problems and was slower this year isn't a "narrative." It's honestly getting tiring to hear people just hand-wave arguments by saying "narrative." Calling everything you disagree with a narrative is a dumb narrative
And no one said he should have. Why do you keep bringing him up? Its OK for Harden to be fat because dwight sucks?
People aren't blaming Corey Brewer. They're blaming Corey Brewer, as well as many other players and coaches that are on the Rockets. So many factors contributed to the lack of success.
Terry calling out Dwight's selfishness : "But I said ‘Dwight, sometime in your career, you are going to have to decide do you want to become a champion? If becoming a champion means set more screens, roll harder to the basket, run the floor more, then that’s what you have to do. You can’t worry about if I’m getting touches in the post. It doesn’t matter. It’s whatever your team needs you to do on that particular night to get the win. So Daryl Morey didn’t say we aren’t going to give you the ball. We’re just not going to give it to you in the post because that's not our style of play." ESPN: You mentioned your season in Houston didn't end the way you wanted. You have also admitted you were "disinterested" during parts of the year. Why was that? Howard: "There were times I was disinterested because of situations that happened behind the scenes that really hurt me. It left me thinking, 'This is not what I signed up for.''' This kind of quitter mentality is contagious. Probably fuc*ed the whole team up in the locker room and off the court.
Nylon Calculus is the most fact driven NBA website out there, if they concluded Harden should've been on the All NBA 2nd team, I put much more faith in their analysis than what some idiots on mass media think. Among all the guards Harden was, 4th in Player Efficiency Rating (PER) 4th in True Shooting Percentage (TS%) 3rd in Win Shares (WS) 4th is WS/48 5th in Box Plus Minus 5th in Real Plus Minus 3rd in Value Over Replacement Player (VORP) Turnovers and defense is included in calculating PER and BPM/RPM respectively. Despite those handicaps, Harden was easily one of top 6 guards in every metric that exits out there. Probably was close to top 4.
