It is going to be really interesting to see how those two play together. I think it can be very very lethal. Teams will have to respect the Rockets a lot more now with the addition of Harden to Lin & Asik. Can't wait for games to start so we can see everything.
It takes 10-15 games to garner good chemistry. I'm excited as any but there will be road bumps along the way. I still have the Rockets winning 6, 7 out of our first 10.
James: You got a couch I can sleep on? Jeremy: Only if we can perfect our secret handshake to unleash upon the world...
One guy is all nba and the other is content with playing behind thabo. No way harden is in the same league as westbrook. I like harden and all,but we've seen westbrook take over when durant wasn't there or not playing well. Its not even close.
We saw Harden take over several times in last seasons play-offs. It's a lot closer than you are giving it credit for.
Agreed. I follow this guy on twitter NBAGeeks. And he had an interesting article where he talked about how Harden contributes more to winning games than Westbrook. In fact Harden was 2nd to KD. OKC lost between 4.5 and 7.5 wins, depending on whether they give the minutes to Thabo or Martin (Martin is the worse-case). I would rather have a guy that contributes more to wins that is the point of the game after all.
Even if you didn't watch any other OKC games, twice last season Harden had utterly dismantled us by himself only to have Westbrook "take over" in the 4th and hand us wins on a silver platter. Quite frankly, I think OKC is the party that is in for a very very rude awakening.
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>Guessing you'll be hearing an awful lot about these two in the days, weeks and months to come. <a href="http://t.co/PWVrvegN" title="http://twitter.com/RocketsJCF/status/263027557614641152/photo/1">twitter.com/RocketsJCF/sta…</a></p>— Jason Friedman (@RocketsJCF) <a href="https://twitter.com/RocketsJCF/status/263027557614641152" data-datetime="2012-10-29T21:20:31+00:00">October 29, 2012</a></blockquote> <script src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>Harden wastes no time setting tone: tells teammates to tuck in shirts & go to work to start practice; runs sprints w/ losing teams in drills</p>— Jason Friedman (@RocketsJCF) <a href="https://twitter.com/RocketsJCF/status/263043140141846528" data-datetime="2012-10-29T22:22:26+00:00">October 29, 2012</a></blockquote> <script src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
Harden didn't choose Houston, he simply chose to get paid. Presti chose us because we had the best offer.
I don't necessarily agree that Harden is better than Westbrook. But even if I accept that he is, Harden and Durant have some overlap in their games (big reason why Harden was on the bench squad), so it would make sense to choose Westbrook over Harden. Different skill sets. And if Westbrook can get that midrange jumper consistent, the guy will be unstoppable.
Wow this guy wasn't joking when he said he was going to lead. Love it. Also what's great is that we have some great young guys who will help enforce this in Parsons and Lin. This is so much of an improvement over our past veteran leader, I just can't see Martin doing this.
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