Harden moved the ball today you absolute morons. If anything he was playing far too unselfish yesterday. He only took 8 shots all night and kept turning the ball over by forcing passes when he had the open shot. I'm sick & tired of the premeditated narratives on this board. James Harden deserves better fans. James needs to stop reading the dumb criticism from his own fans and start playing more aggressive again. He needs to start playing with the mindset of dropping 40-50 again rather than yesterday's pathetic passive effort. Curry is shooting more than any player in the League & that's why the Warriors are dangerous.
On some nights, yes. Then on others, it's the coaches. Then on others, it's Dwight. Then on others, it's the role players. That's the problem. No semblance of consistent play from anybody.
This! But people will on blame James. I can't believe the pass that the highest paid player on the team gets. Dwight has been just as atrocious as James
Actually the nets are now responsible for 2 of our losses. If we are lucky we will end the season 1-3 vs NYC....
LOL ... You're going to be called an absolute moron for stating the obvious! :grin: ....... ....... .......
People are not just blaming Harden dude. The blame is being toss all across the board. Shoots some are blaming Morey and Les as well. But I guess you're blinded to those facts because you only see Harden.
When James DOESN'T have the ball, what does he actually do on the offensive side to help his team? I swear I never see him try to set screens for other teammates or make cuts.
This is true. Harden needs to be better as the star player. I won't harp on the lack of a coach because I've accepted that won't be upgraded anytime soon. And yes...you can deal with the occasional bad games from the role players. Problem is we've been dealing with consistently bad games from far too many players. There's a lot of problems, and yes, it starts with Harden and Dwight, but it's a team-wide problem that we have yet to find any sort of consistency. I have a hard time giving anybody a pass at this point in the season. A slow start was annoying, but acceptable. 25 games into the season, though? That's not acceptable.
That's what I hate about Harden, never seen a star that is such an extreme minus on everything else than scoring. On nights where his shot isn't falling he drags the team down so much, even 12th and fringe NBA players help you more in those minutes, at least they try to help their teammates and give effort.
Why do you single out Harden? NOBODY moves without the ball or makes instinctive screens/cuts to the basket. That is due to the lack of coaching and offensive scheme. You think the Warriors were cutting and constantly moving without the ball during Mark Jackson's time with them? Absolutely not. They're doing it now because Steve Kerr has implemented an actual system to fall back on.
Hit the nail right on the head there. Too bad the haters couldn't see through that. Now, what does JB do? Clap, Clap, play harder guys...but he "looks" better doing it, LOL at the stupid fans.
YES I am blaming Harden.... You want to be a leader than lead... I don't care about him partying and clubbing all night, a lot of athletes have done that.. But when you step on the court you give it all that you have on BOTH ends of the court. His bad attitude has hurt this team bad this year. T_Man
The fact of the matter is, it's time for Harden to realize that his lazy play is the reason this team is in this spot. What's sad, is that the team played this same exact way when they started 0-3 and lost each game by 20 points. The differenice here was that Thornton and Brewer went off to keep it close. Harden is lazy, and he needs to figure that out quick and change it, or the Rockets need to get another different star player.
We fired Kevin McHale but maybe what he accomplished last year was great coaching with a team that wanted to win. It seems the real Rockets have showed up this year and the real James Harden is only a good offensive player not the MVP candidate he was last year. Last a combination of James and Dwight is not going to get Houston a championship and at the rate they are going may not even get us in the playoffs.
