Seeing that post earlier of the banner we put up when we got Dwight really put things in perspective. He does not belong in the discussion of Rockets great legacy of centers. Such a let down.
Rockets' Offensive RTG (last 10 games): With James Harden: 109.5 Without James Harden: 83.5 Rockets' Defensive RTG (last 10 games): With James Harden: 100, 0 Without James Harden: 114. 8 I know it's over and everything is Harden's fault. Let's bench that bum's ass and play like real contenders as we are.
I don't care if Harden averages 50 in the regular season only to have him lose games because of lapses on defense or turnovers during the regular season and or playoffs.... These type of anomalies don't happen to the truly great players. Heck T-Mac > Harden and T-Mac had much less to work with on the roster hence why he failed.
On a bright side Capela is looking like the starting center this team needs. He was a monster this game and was just punking Gobert for rebounds and he's one of the best centers in the game. Capela runs the floor hard and grabs the hustle rebounds that change momentum. It's not that his stats are beter than dwights, although they were tonight. I mean dwight didn't get the ball a lot but he still got it enough to have more than 5 freaking points. He needs to put his imprint on the game do what Clint does and he would get 25 pPG becsuse he's more talented. But he's to proud to run the floor go for hustle plays. Also why is it that Clint can run the pick and roll but dwight just can't seem to do it? I wouldnt care so much but this is the highest paid player on the team he's the so called 2nd best player on the team. We needed him to to show up harde is playing hurt and still had a great game. The rest of the guys besides Terry atleast hit some big shots. I can't think of one thing dwight did well. Not one.
Rockets' Offensive RTG (last 10 games): With James Harden: 109.5 Without James Harden: 83.5 Houston Rockets' defensive rating (last 10 games): With James Harden: 100, 0 Without James Harden: 114. 8 Right. As you can see we play so much better without Harden.
Problem is Harden will have another anomaly in the PlayOffs. He'll score over 100 pts the first 3 games combined and the Rockets win a couple PlayOff games. Then he'll have his period for the next 4 games and complain about having to go to the locker room because of menstrual cramps to explain away why he committed a historical 20+ turnovers for each of those 4 games after the Rockets had gone 3-0 so far for the series. That's just how it is with James Harden because it's just like that. **** this guy... Im sick of it.
Exactly. Can't believe the hatred Harden gets on this board. What a bunch of fools. Harden can't do it all himself.
Rockets' Offensive RTG (last 10 games): With James Harden: 109.5 Without James Harden: 83.5 Rockets Defensive RTG (last 10 games): With James Harden: 100, 0 Without James Harden: 114. 8 I'm so sick of him too. Why don't people realize that we are on GS level only if Harden didn't play?
Well put..I harken back to Rudy T, Dream,Otis T.,Kenny Smith, Mario Elie, etc. I really believe you on the "last' chance for DH. I owe my friend an apology...he said Dwight would not be the difference maker I thought...I said he was just jealous. He was right. The game no longer means much to him. Time to move on. My dad is 82 and I believe he could outrun Dwight. I thought Morey was right that we needed a 3rd superstar to compliment JH and DH but the truth is what we needed were some more role players. Harden will be fine I think as you say....he needs to fine tune his game. And we'll need to "help" him defensively. Need a PG and another penetrator. Would be nice to have a big that actually knew what making a FT is as well.
Why is this scrub even talking? 0 points this game. They need to stop playing this old timer. Give Goudelock some burn. JBB is a p***y and has no balls to bench veteran players for younger alternatives.
all the starters +/- ratio were all in the red negative...the bench +/- ratio were in all in the positive... Bizarre http://http://espn.go.com/nba/boxscore?gameId=400828948
And this is part of the reason why I keep bringing up Dwight's performance as of late. We need to start talking about the real issues inflicting this team, based on facts, not emotions. It's not only Dwight, other players suck too and JB is an absolute moron, but since Dwight is the defensive anchor of this team and contributes almost nothing offensively, while being paid 22 mil this year, it's absolutely unacceptable that he doesn't even bother to challenge the shot and close out on shooters. If JB was a brave and smart coach, he would have started Capela over Dwight and gave him the majority of minutes, but we all know he's not.
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