Also there are different styles of leadership, some more vocal, some more quiet. No right or wrong way. I love Harden for his quiet leadership carrying this team on his back whenever needed. As someone else has said, Harden leads by example. My heart just goes out to him when he played with a sore foot and still put up 37/8. WOW!!!
Going to an Ivy League school doesn't automatically imbue one with leadership skills. Thousands of people graduate from Harvard alone every year, and most of them are piss-poor leaders with unremarkable qualities.
I finally looked at the OP. Talk about bizarre. Anyone who seriously doesn't believe James Harden is the leader of this team needs to go into therapy. With all due respect to those who need to make appointments. Please don't put it off. You need help. Good luck!
Best players aren't automatically the leaders. Moreover, there are many different types of leaders. Harden is undoubtedly the leader in terms of talent. If the Rockets are in a desperate situation and they need someone to lead them out of the hole, it's gotta start with Harden. Maybe Parsons and Lin can occasionally take that role, but Harden is by far the most capable of doing that. But Harden's also new, so you could make a claim that Parsons is a leader too because he's the only returning starter and he plays not only with great skill but also with a lot of heart. If anything needs to get done, you can count on Parsons giving it his best effort. And you could also make the case for Lin being a leader because as the PG, he's the coach on the floor. He also has great floor vision and is frequently seen talking to all of his teammates.
I voted for Linn: not the best player (Harden) but I think he is the "verbal" leader. See video above.
It was 2,400 votes for Lin only two days ago, how did it get to 5,224 so quickly? This is a thread with less than 300 posts, and over 8,500 people have voted, I don't get it.
One important factor that Harvard admission officers would evaluate about a candidate is his/her leadership experience, and they have formal leadership development programs in place. I agree that the majority of Harvard graduates may still come out inadequate as leaders for all kinds of organizations, and this just shows that those who haven't got any training would have even a slimmer chance of becoming a good one. As a former international training director for the largest leadership training organization in the world, I believe leaders are not born but trained and developed. And those who have got more training have a better chance of becoming a good leader later.
It's a strange feeling, but I'm thinking that a million Chinese fans are looking over every post on Clutchfans with a dictionary in hand ready to skew any poll that comes along in Lin's favor. There's a million of them right now, with probably 300,000 mad at me and cursing my name for exposing game, lol. Hi guys.
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>Pretty telling that Parsons went to shoot after game. Guy's averaging 20 in March. A reason Rox think so much of 2nd yr player/team captain.</p>— Jonathan Feigen (@Jonathan_Feigen) <a href="https://twitter.com/Jonathan_Feigen/status/313470133035208704">March 18, 2013</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script> It's Parson O_O
not James Harden, he bailed before the media showed up, basically abandoning his teammates and leaving them to answer all the questions.
However, some people are just natural leaders...meaning don't have training but quickly adapt to the role. You see this every day when disaster strikes.
I really don't know why people can't like Lin unless they are chinese/asian. During the game, there was this sunshine kid who was interviewed and asked who was his favorite player. I believe he was white and blond, and he said Jeremy Lin because Jeremy had to overcome so much and improved a lot since he got to Houston. And since Lin fans get so much abuse on this board, there are many smarter folks than myself who choose not to get in the dirty and join the fray by expressing their opinions. And they just read and vote on the polls. Is that really not possible that there are thousands of North Americans reading the GARM? Must it always come down to people in China?
