You’re fine, I meant everybody on this board. Harden busted his arse for this team all season and averaged 35 points a game in the playoffs. He has the same fate as other great players on bad teams (like Durant did before joining the Warriors).
Durant went out and Andre Iguana hit five threes -- something he hadn't done in five years. They were on the wrong end of two statistical outliers two years in a row. It has nothing to do with Harden vs. Kawhi. You can win it all with either player as your #1 option.
Falling back on “spurs are first class and couldn’t possibly screw this up” and trying to throw out an insult (maybe?) like “Kawhi is your hero” doesn’t change reality. Fortunately I’m an intelligent adult capable of keeping an open mind, reading the facts, understanding nuance... and realizing even if Kawhi wasn’t the utmost professional, he didn’t just fake an injury to get out and that the Spurs indeed did **** it up. But you do you.
At the end of the day Kawhi > Harden, but more importantly Masai>>>>>>Morey. Same time last year we were the "best team in basketball". Raptors were the joke of the league getting swept by Lebron once again. Now look at the two teams, Morey got us Melo, MCW, Knight, James Penis while losing Ariza. Meanwhile They got Kawhi, Danny Green and Marc Gasol while retaining Siakim, FVV, Ibaka, Powell and OG
Oh lol, you mean the Durantless Warriors, the hobbled Klay and Looney Warriors. The Warriors who are playing Demarcus Cousins(who has now shown to be a defensive huge liability without any offense). You mean those Warriors? Cmon now. Kawhi could never hope to have the offensive impact Harden does
Choking leads in the second half at home for a championship is EXACTLY how we want to position ourselves every single year.
Harden doesn't have what it takes in the playoffs when the lights are brightest and the pressure is on you. It's not just the Warriors (Durant or no Durant) Just go back a few seasons, Game 6 at home where Rockets are favored against arch rivals Spurs without Kawhi and Tony Parker. Harden froze and choked when the going got tough. Rockets ended up being blown out.
Oh you mean those Durantless Warriors that the mighty Rockets are 0-2 against? Wow, must be such a easy task dismantling that Durantless team for a easy championship. Oh Cousins, must be easy to stop that guy, or is that the same guy that took dump on us the last game of the Regular season. Oh Kawhi, the guy who is averageing 31-9 - 4 on .63 TS, .50 FG and .39 3FG on a verge of a championship can't possible have the same offensive impact as the mighty Harden.
Harden’s mental lapses in the playoffs is a thing. He had some bizarre first halves in the Jazz series this year that had me scratching my head. Like he was just mentally checked out.
Y’all do realize it’s possible for Kawhi to have more support now, but to also be a better playoff performer? I don’t know if we win with Kawhi instead of Harden, but I highly doubt I’d be questioning Kawhi’s effort three postseasons in a row.
Uhhh, first of all it was 1.25 games. Second of all, yea the same one the Raptors lost to in game 2, yea those Warriors. LOL, also its even worse cause Klay was killing them that, game he AND Looney go out and they still lost that one. Not to mention they had prep time to face the Warriors without Durant. Oh yea man this Cousins who JUST CAME BACK from an injury in the first round, THAT Cousins, not to mention you are talking about a regular season game bro. Whole bunch of disingenuous arguments right here. Hes got a very nice stat line for sure, great player. Harden average a similar statline(actually 3 more points per game on lower efficiency and better offensive impact imo but whatever lol).He also plays awesome D, but again they are not playing the close to the version we faced, just saying. Also, whats the deal with you saying might Harden sarcastically, are you kidding me? He had a pretty great year, dominant regular season and pretty good post season, like...what. Unless not a Rockets fan i dont get the shade.
Kawhi's been great, and I won't take exception to anyone wanting to argue he's better than Harden. They are both great players. You can also micro-analyze every crunch time possession to try to argue Kawhi's more clutch. However, the main reasons the Raptors are beating the Warriors are: (1) The Warriors are beat up. Durant is out the whole series, Klay missed a game, and is still gimpy. Looney is at 50%. (2) the Raptors are big. They have a lot of big, athletic guys who can rebound, pass, score, and defend.
If harden moved, pushed the pace, and controlled turnovers then he could be better than kawhi. But the harden only fans tell me this is impossible
Yeah i left them because they are theirs Manimals and Riverses and Shumperts. Before start of the season would you take Raptors depth instead of ours? exactly Yeah they would miss games but we did miss Harden once this year and we played pretty good. As to other things... they wouldnt be unbeatable but i still think Rockets would get better with this simple swap and Raptors would get back to predictable offense and failing short just like DeRozan days
