His Euro numbers were much better, so there's hope - but there's a lot of other issues too. His TOV rate was higher than Dwight Howard's and much higher than James, with a fraction of the AST%.
I think Harden makes a lot of players look good especially the ones that have high IQ or stick exclusively to their roles. Parsons had his best year playing with Harden. Lin statistically had his best year with harden, although he was pretty good last year playing with surprise surprise a ball dominate guard in Walker. Delfino revitalized his career playing that first year with James. Asik was seen as a top 8 center on the come up his one year with harden avg a double/double, now he can barley get more than 15 mpg in NO. Cannan looked very good playing off harden for that stretch that bev was injured. Tarik black was a serviceable starter now he can't even get playing time on a bad lakers squad. Bev got a starter gig and 18mil contract from playing off harden and he wasn't even in the league before that. Harden making his teammates better and the game easier for them is very underrated by many here and especially the media.
Not to mention all those unexpected .1 shot clock passes he does to give his teammates such easy assists. Amazing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKVn4-bMFU8 Here's the video. I know highlights bring out the best in a player but some of the things he did were definitely better than your average player and he was a rookie from Europe. He just needed time.
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Great points! Don't forget Dorsey! Trash ass Dorsey played well for the Rockets even though fans won't admit it. Imagine if Dwight just lead from the back. Imagine If he didn't fight Harden so much last year... Dwight was good that one season.. Harden could have made him great again if he simply set screens and dunked the ball. It still makes me angry thinking about it.
Unless there's something that says differently, I believe Dwight took it hard that McHale was fired, that Smoove wasn't brought back at the beginning and that Harden's buddy Ty was brought in. You could see that his heart wasn't in it. Let's hope that this newly assembled team plays with the same heart and passion that they did in '14-15.
The whole season was "something that says differently"...he was mad he wasn't getting his touches and forced to be Tyson chandler...affects his earning power negatively..it's that simple...he went through the motions just to fulfill his contract without bad press, although he screwed that up and let some things slip here and there...which is why he needed a new agent to give him a makeover. He took a hard stance with Atlanta and forced them to give him the extra money they were saving to give Horford his max deal.....it's clear it was about money.
Ok, I'll buy that, but all of these points add up to a lack of maturity on his part and a lack of willingness to put the team's success before his own.
Bump. Just wondering if people think the team is now set for the start of the season or whether there's a trade being lined up still? Will a Rudy Gay or Noels trade materialize? Or someone else like Monte Ellis? Has been very quiet on the news/trade front. Understand it's time of the year and I'm getting impatient for it to start!
For Montrezl to really get going he needs to get good at something. His rebounding is not good enough to just be a pure hustle player. He needs to learn to shoot it or start mastering the pick and roll. He just hasn't shown enough on offense yet to be worth playing more than 5-10 minutes a game, If that.
I like Trez but i agree with this. A pf with no shooting, no rebounding and no p&r game is pretty much useless. And i'm also not impressed with his defense to be honest...he can make plays but i don't know, i kinda remember him to be out of position a lot, losing his man easily...
Well, he fit right in with last year's squad, I'd say. But hey....that Predator hairdo.....cool when he'd go to dunk, right?
