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Stars will not want to play with Harden

Discussion in 'Houston Rockets: Game Action & Roster Moves' started by DaDakota, Jun 30, 2019.

  1. HP3

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    And Butler left Philly when he got offered the max to go to Miami, what is your point? And Aldrige went to the Spurs cause of POP more than anything.
     
  2. T_Man

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    Hakeem was stated to have faked an injury to get out of Houston.... Durant was said to have been faking an injury to get out of GS...

    So to answer your ques, I have no point... It is what it is..

    But that doesn't take away from the fact that the Spurs play team ball and not isolation ball..

    T_Man
     
  3. HP3

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    Is this for real? This isnt true at all. Who did our system make a worse basketball player who? Tell me?
     
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    Maybe read what I replied to before you at me. He said no one has ever chosen the Spurs,
     
  5. HP3

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    When did Durant fake an injury?
     
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    DaDakota will never be a good poster
     
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  7. HP3

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    Oh, my apologies. But I think you missed his bigger point, was that stars were harder to acquire and more often that not, teams will fail at getting them. And Aldridge being the only major FA they acquired does not say much.
     
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    When the narrative is needed.
     
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    The injury from the Rockets game.. Media and fans were stating that Durant was faking an injury to prove a point that the Warriors needed him to win a championship...

    T_Man
     
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    But he did pursue those guys and didn't get anywhere. Posters here seem to consider that "embarassing" because a star went elsewhere.

    The point is that no team signs many big name free agents. We've signed 2 in six years. Posters are acting like other teams are signing superstars every season. The fact is that we've done as well as anyone over that period.

    Yes, you can site some longshots that won titles but those are the exceptions. Nobody is saying it's not "possible", it's just highly unlikely. While those upsets can occur, nobody goes in with that as their plan for success.

    This is the era of the super team. It's not just several good players playing together, it's future Hall of Famers. Your chances of beating them without competing stars if very small. All you have to do is go look at the list of NBA champions over the last 10 years.

    A team can get lucky and have one of the super teams suffer catestrophic injuries in the playoffs but you're not going to plan for that to occur. That would be similar to planning to win the lottery as your retirement planning.

    This is the era of the stacked teams. I'll completely agree that it's possible for those teams to lose. But let's not try and pretend like the Spurs or Pop doesn't "want" superstars. Of course they do and that's why he chased Lebron, Durant and CP3. It's just really hard to land stars...especially without massive cap space.
     
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    What does performance after joining the Rockets have to do with anything? Do you even know what you're arguing about?
     
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  12. Rocket River

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    No one hates Harden more than HARD CORE Rocket Fans :D

    Rocket River
     
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    Hard core “real” Rockets fans
     
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    Harden never laid out his business plans entirely......kept peeps out.
     
  15. Texanasiafan

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    LOL,

    did you actually check the title of the thread :

    Stars will not want to play with Harden

    And somehow you still can not understand it?

    You just saw someone jumped over a cliff and they actually died but you just kept saying : there is nothing wrong about the cliff, its all about the jumper.

    And somehow you still expect any rational human being to follow?
     
  16. DaDakota

    DaDakota If you want to know, just ask!

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    No one hates him at all - not sure why so many of you guys are so butt hurt on any sort of criticism or how he could actually improve.

    The dude is an AMAZING player, a Hall of famer, but to win a ring, we can't have him as Iverson part 2, we need him to be more team oriented.....end of story.

    Stop whining about people hating him, NO ROCKET FAN hates him.....but a lot of us want him to evolve.

    DD
     
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    or stars don't want to play in team managed by Morey because he constantly reminds his players that it is all business, you can be traded any time and you do not need to be loyal to your team.
     
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    14th pick.
     
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  19. marky :)

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    Okay gotcha.

    Harden caused CP3's injuries and Howard has never been a toxic teammate on any other organization.
     
  20. DreamShook

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    • Brooklyn Just traded DLO to the Warriors after he brought them back to prominence.
    • GSW just traded IGGY and let everyone go without warning. Also made him play on a broken leg. Snapped KD's Achilles.
    • Miami is trying to trade the whole roster to make room for Butler.
    • Boston made IT play injured (screwing up his career) the same year his sister died then traded him for a 1 year Kyrie rental
    • The Raptors traded Demar and 30% of their bench for Kahwi and Gasol
    The whole league trades players, man.. And far more ruthlessly than Morey.
     

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