that feels like revisionist history. outside of 2016, what years has this not been a team that played hard and together? certainly the early harden teams did. there's no way the 2015 teams won 56 games with josh smith and corey brewer or came back from 3-1 against the clippers without chemistry. they certainly weren't overly talented. the 2017 team somehow combined harden with 2 castoffs from new orleans and won 55 games. 2018 was amazing. harden and cp3 didn't get along in 2019 but i certainly didn't notice it on the court considering we once again were the only team to challenge the warriors and played really well in the 2nd half of the season once everyone got healthy. if a bunch of articles had been written about how wonderful harden has been and that it's just time to break up the rockets, everyone would be looking back on how hard we played and how much cohesion there was in the harden era. since the articles have been bad, people go back and find corroborating thoughts or events to say it was obvious that people didn't get along and we were missing this or that. kind of like with the clippers. once they lose, there's no money in writing positive articles. they bring out the kawhi/pg hit pieces about how nobody liked each other. did they like each other when they had huge leads on the nuggets in close-out games and then the dysfunction kicked in for the 4th quarter? or is there probably a certain degree of camaraderie and certain degree of tension on every team and we only get the articles that fit the narrative once we see the result? i suspect the latter. i'm not saying the rockets were all kumbaya, but something tells me we couldn't have been this good for this long if nobody had chemistry to the degree all the articles want to act like now.
our gm and our coach left even before harden? hmm, guess all these recent articles just accidentally forgot to mention that.
It definitely is. He is friends with Tilman. He would essentially be the liaison. It's what I wanted Doc Rivers for. JVG is even better because he's literally Houston.
I don't know if JVG would accept such a job if it were offered, but it would be a great move by Tilman if he could bring in Van Gundy. That's whether Harden stays or Harden goes.
5 Years 35 Million is probably the kind of salary he'd get. He'd never have to leave the loop again. It's his dream.
