clearly the eye test, they don't realize how advanced stats prove that a Harden-led squad has the best real plus minus in the known universe.
Seriously - it is really hard to play aggressive trapping defense. The only team recently to do it well was the Heat w LeBron. The rockets do not have the personnel athletically or intelligence wise to pull it off. Example 2000 why JB is an idiot
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Harden took a tumble after he got smacked by Bazemore. Monty McCutchen called the foul, then said to Harden, "You don't have to do that."</p>— Jonathan Feigen (@Jonathan_Feigen) <a href="https://twitter.com/Jonathan_Feigen/status/711348205791932416">March 20, 2016</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>