nba tv is consistently praising Harden as the best. When you compare NBA TV to ESPN, it's like you're on a different planet of discussion. ESPN is selling controversy, when it comes to Harden. NBA TV is selling nba talk.
People really sit back and wonder why NBA ratings are down when ESPN/Bleacher Report/etc. care more about Lebron’s Taco Tuesday posts and Kyrie’s Instagram than they do about educating and highlighting the best that basketball has to offer. They’ve taught casual fans to hate/mock everything in the NBA except for a select few media darlings.
That's good to hear. I don't watch NBATV unless they're broadcasting a stream I'm watching. I'll take your word for it. For ESPN, I'd be concerned that any praise to Harden or the Rockets, is merely for the purpose of building up the Rockets so that LeBron or Leonard's eventual victory over Houston will sound that much greater. I perceive that they think their highest profits come from talking about successful teams on the coast. Hopefully, the NBA doesn't cater to that wish.
Every time I see a close-up of Harden I wonder if after a game he could wring the sweat out of his beard like it was a mop.
These guys didn't even watch the game, only the highlights. They were talking about how Hawks didn't throw double teams at Harden so he just went off easily. Hawks tried double and even triple teaming Harden in the first half but it didn't work because the role players kept hitting open shots so they gave up. Also, SVG the same guy who keeps saying after every previous Rockets game that Rockets will never win anything when Harden runs so many ISOs.
Meanwhile every public conversation that you'll have on James Harden shows it's basically a consensus public opinion that he sucks. Harden will forever stay underrated
This. They were doubling him. He kept walking to a corner dragging the double team to the corner and the other Rockets all ran to the other side of the court leaving Harden by himself on that side. After he walked them over to a side of the court he would just pass to the egregiously wide open Rocket players who had about 9 hours of free time to shoot a 3. Tonight they were making the 3's and put the Hawks down by 20 something points, so they stopped doubling him.
