The Rockets were irrelevant for 15 years before Harden came here. In that past 40 years the only franchise-changing players that managed to grace us was Dream and Harden. Great players tend to not come our way.
Never? How about 29.4 pts, 50% FG%, 37.8% 3pt%, 4.6 reb, 7.2 Ast, 1.4 stl, 1.0 blocks and 66.4 TS% ? I know 3 months is a long time but he outscored both AD and Lebron in the LA series while being more efficient than either of them. Right at 30/game on a ridiculous 66% efficiency? Those aren't dominant numbers to you?
In the 15 years preceding Harden we've been out of the playoffs for 8 of those and only made the second round once. Harden made us a contender. It took our other legend, a far greater player, 10 years to bring us a title so I'm not besmirching Harden for falling short.
You guys can clown OP all you want. You can't call him wrong because a Harden led team will go nowhere. He is absolutely right.
We were never contenders because of only Harden. We were contenders because of both Harden and Chris Paul.
Organizations build championship teams. This organization hasn’t built one in 25 years. You trust FERTITTA to build one? Whether Harden is here or not it’s on Fertitta.
Of course you are. The thing is, if you consistently say stupid ****, people aren’t going to take you seriously when you do say something that isn’t stupid. You haven’t said anything like that yet, but I’m holding out hope.
I dont like the take. How many open 3 point shots do you guys have to see missed by wide open teammates? Then to place THAT at the feet of James? "We cant win a championship unless the team is stacked" ... What? This guy has carried a squad of G Leaguers into the playoffs. Why hasnt ANYONE ever talked about how bad the shooting around James has been? Why finding professional sharpshooters was never a priority. Never made sense to shoot that many 3's without guys who were skilled at doing so.
It's just simply mind boggling how many folks are more comfortable rooting for a bad team because they know it won't break their hearts when the team loses. How 'fans' want a top tier team dismantled (angrily, if possible) because they haven't yet made the last leap to champion. How it's not okay for the team to get close but it's somehow ok for a team to tread water and have the 14th pick in the draft every year. It's really crazy how many people are starting threads about it, posting nothing other than conjecture but typed as gospel.
I know, it's absolutely maddening having to put up this garbage. How can anybody want to go back to what we were before Harden, what we have ALWAYS been barring those brief moments of absolute success that were more pure chance than design, just to spite one man I will never know.
Yea it's definitely a blessing to lose one of the best players of all time and have no future hope because of our owner