Is it the fact that Rockets have not made the playoffs since 08-09 that people seem to be drunk with giddiness and start terrible threads like this? I loved the trade and have always liked harden (besides is flopping) but some of you people are delusional. There is no middle with Cluthfans. It's either b**** about how much we suck, or NOTHING CAN STOP US! :grin:
Harden plays on a team with a good point guard (Lin) who gets him the ball, and with a bunch of scrubs. He better win the scoring title - no other player is going to get the ball as much in their hands. Durant has to share it with Westbrooke, so yeah, I think Harden has it in the bag.
You lost all credibility right here. You obviously have no idea what you're talking about. Big surprise.
Harden is on pace to have the third highest scoring average in NBA history and be only the second guy to average over 40 points a game (Wilt has the highest two seasons). Harden is a full 4 ppg beyond Jordan's best. He only has to keep this up for 80 more games.
He won't light every team up like he has the past 2 games. I don't think he'll win the scoring title because you still have guys like Kobe, KD, Melo, and Lebron who just will their way to big games. But after those 4 he could be there, and maybe even ahead of one or two of them. He WILL have average nights and nights where he's just not feeling it, and hopefully Parsons starts felling it within the offense more and Harden doesn't have to put up such amazing numbers every night for us to stay competitive. I think he has a real chance to be in the top 5 in scoring and if he does that then he's a shoe in for Most Improved Player, even though it not him improving but rather him being let loose to play his game. If the Lakers and Heat use their deep teams to balance out the scoring then Harden can beat both of their top guys in scoring, But KD needs to score more now because Harden isn't their to pick up the slack for when Westbrook has one of his reckless shooting nights, which happens more often than not. Scoring title? doubtful, but would be awesome Top 3? maybe, but that's a lot of pressure on him every night Top 5? Possible with us being a play-off team Top 10? shoe in
I think the fans who take these questions seriously, like me, have to believe in a middle ground. But I get what you're saying though. Most posts have you thinking we were the worst team ever to now us being the best team ever. It does get a little ridiculous reading these sometimes, because since its text on a screen I can't tell if some of these people are being sarcastic or just down right crazy LOL
What?!?! Is this real life? Asik getting 19 RBS is being a scrub? Delfino hitting 4 3's in a row and 5 for the game in his first real Rockets game is a scrub? Morris going off from the bench last night and making almost everyone on this board eat crow is a scrub? Cool story bro. And Durant has to share the ball with Westbrook because he's a ball-hogging PG who takes dumb shots, not because he's a great player? Westbrook is very athletic and one of the fastest guys in the league, but he's not a pure basketball player like I believe Harden is. When Westbrook gets older and isn't as fast or as strong, he'll just be another PG that could have been great but didn't live up to the hype. Harden can pass and create and can do it all at variable paces so he'll have the better career, but he's not playing with scrubs, he's playing with a very young core learning on the fly and will surprise a bunch of people this year.
i hope harden can keep it up, but i think he will come back down to earth soon. regardless he has displayed enormous talent in the past couple of games. i enjoy all this hype about the rockets, its about time h-town gets the respect it deserves.
Will he win the scoring title? Who knows? Can he win it? Absolutely. It is not like he came out of nowhere. His stats while playing without Durant and Westbrook on the floor in OKC suggest he is capable of superstar-level output. And he is far more efficient than guys like Kobe and Melo without a lot of other scoring options on the team. If I were a betting man, I would put money on Harden if I were getting good odds.
