[WSJ] James Harden Was the Most Valuable Player. Then He Became Invaluable.

Works for me. Prob have to spoof header to iCow device

 

At least it acknowledges that his play is efficient, going against that idiotic narrative that recently around that he was just chucking shots.

 

Harden is playing amazing basketball, but I've yet to see any difference between past Harden-led Rocket teams and this one, when thinking in terms of the playoffs.

Or, to put it more simply, the one man show usually doesn't work in the playoffs, and that's been shown for the past few years (at least). And Harden is dominating the ball more than ever, and that's saying something.

I'd love to be wrong. But I doubt that I am.

 

I guess that depends on your definition of "working in the playoffs". It got us to the WCF again. We took the champs to 7 games. CP3 injury and ref sabotage is what wasn't working in my opinion. If it's championship or bust then yeah, it didn't work.

 

Well, yes, I would guess that for anyone that experienced 94-95, the ring is pretty much the standard.

Yes, the Rox got to Game 7 against Dubs last year, but from what my eyes saw, when the Dubs actually decided to play, it was a pretty one-sided contest in games 6 and 7.

Paul: injuries are part of the game.

Not sure what the Ref sabotage was.

Like I said, I'd love to be wrong, but I just don't see the support that Harden is bound to need, come playoff time.

 

Key for us to win a championship will be CP3 unless Harden is able to pull off 40-60 point games in the playoffs.