Im not taking away anything, just trying to figure why the conversation always starts and ends with Harden while not taking into account everything else.
Well imo I feel as if Harden is out for the personal glory and he reminds me too much of Adrian Dantley. I stated this years ago and I stick by statement even more. Harden doesn't want to do the little things it takes to win it all... step up on defense.. stop disappearing in big games... play team ball and not iso ball.. Now I am only speaking for myself.. T_Man
Well IMO I see a player who has not had the privilege of playing with very good teams, and takes it upon himself to take things into his own hands to try and save his team, and by doing that it mask the problems of his teams until the moments where he needs more from his teammates and they’re not there when he needs it. The 1 time he did have the team that could give him what he wanted, his sidekick blew out his hamstring at the worst time. But now I’m probably speaking for myself as well.
A great player will make average players good.. Leonard is making his average players look very good... Hes leading them by example on both ends of the court and stepping up to take control like he did in the 1st period when their offense was stinking it up. The Rockets have had the talent the last couple of years, but your so called superstars have to step up to the plate.. along with the coach. T_Man
. The raptors won 59 games last year, and won 58 games with Kawhi missing 22 games this year. Nothing “average” about the raptors. Above average maybe. They actually had more all-stars than the Rockets.
The same can be said about the Rockets... But Toronto Traded one superstar player for another and then changed the coaching staff... and look where they are now. T_Man
No the same can’t be said about the rockets. The rockets not winning 59 games without harden or 58 games with harden missing 22 games. I do agree we need to trade “superstar” cp3 for another superstar point guard tho. Too bad nobody wants a 34 year old aging injury prone point guard that makes $40 million a year.
It says a lot about your basketball knowledge if you think DeMar Derozan is a superstar or is anywhere near Harden’s or Kawhi’s league.
The Raptors actually rebound instead of just standing around the 3 point line. That's what I would like Murray to watch.
Next season Morey will recruit more scrubs to standing 3pt line and watching Harden ISO dribble show.
Questions: What is Golden States 3 or percentage against the Raptors versus the Rockets? What is Golden States health versus the Raptors as oppose to the rockets? Are we going to latch on to one thing to hate our own team ......and recognize that these are two different opponents. Rocket River No one hate the Houston Rockets more than Houston Rockets "fans"
In Morey's mind, his perfect basketball: Just keep chucking threes. Dont need coaching or timeout. Just shoot those damn threes. Midgets run ass off to get those rebounds.
Except in that series when CP3 blew out his hammy, CP three was arguably the best player in at least 2 games. Harden was not clutch, not by far, showed in Gm seven with the missed shots. If he can’t even be an Alpha in the most important quarters, I am not even going to defend him.
Because he is the system. He forces it, personel around is picked based of his tendencies. So is gameplan
