another rockets post liked or commented on by harden. Dude still loves us. It was an ugly breakup but I’m sure he’s truly happy that we got lucky and bounced back in terms of our rebuild. He might not be a rocket anymore but he’s still a rockets fan. He’ll go into the HOF a rocket.
Honestly I hope that this team is built so strong defensively we realize adding Harden would really be a bigger benefit to him versus us. I want to win without him. We need a culture where playing time is earned by playing great to good on both ends of the court.
Time to move on and root against harden for the sake of our picks. Mans will always have a complicated legacy with Houston fans. He screwed us and ain’t doin us any favors with those next few nets picks. https://www.google.com/amp/s/sports...ing-conversations-james-harden-151004042.html
I’m a Houston resident that’s been a Rockets fan my whole life. I’m also Filipino and have followed green since his High school and AAU days. He’s my favorite athlete ever. The name is a reference to the lin only fans that took over this board when we got him in 2012. Believe me, I suffered through t Mac microfracture, Yao going down in 2009 vs LA after a great game 1 victory, the 14th overall pick years, Aaron brooks getting his career rekt by many ginobili etc.
Not trying to be rude, just genuinely curious, but...why? Is it only because he's part Filipino? Green hasn't done anything (yet) to be worthy of basketball praise. That's like someone who was born in Chicago saying saying Jordan is their favorite athlete ever, hours after Chicago drafted him or something.
Green is Filipino. So I can understand JGOF's sentiment. If you were a Turkish Rockets fan and claim that Sengun's yout favorite athlete of all time, we'd understand too. Just don't go overboard and blindly elevate a guy over the team.
To me, it's just strange, is all. Not saying Green is bad or unworthy of being someone's favorite athlete ever, but his resume is literally blank, at this point. If you were Filipino and your favorite athlete of all time was like, Manny Pacquiao or someone like, I'd totally understand.
This was always the plan. His next season with nets, the growth of our youth, and being able to get off of Wall will dictate the timing of whether he takes his player option. Ideally... the nets implode, our youth explode, and Wall erodes. That was always my plan, at least.
Amazing player while he was here. The team gave him too much input and apparently he's as good at being a GM as I am at dunking (Note: I can only dunk on an 8 foot rim and even then i'm no good) After running the team into the ground, he showed up out of shape and then quit on us. No thanks.
I'm not the one to tell you who to like or not like (because that's just stupid) but if you suffered through those times, how would you describe your experience during the Harden era? Just because things ended badly between the player and the franchise (and BOTH parties are guilty of causing that fracture) shouldn't take away all that this franchise achieved during Harden's time here.
I appreciate his time here tremendously. That doesn’t mean I can’t call him out for how he quit on us multiple times in the playoffs only to leave after we kept investing into him. I stuck up for him year after year as he choked in the playoffs saying things like “he’s still a young player, he hasn’t figured it out yet.” Turns out he never figured it out as he aged and just blamed everything on everyone else. Mchale was right that he’s not a leader. Good guy and good player though. Happy he still reps us.
