ESPN Sources: James Harden was not in Houston today but told Rockets FO he will be soon

man I’d like to think there’s some hope. This is definitely a bad look though. he obviously doesn’t respect Tillman if this is his approach to improving the team.

One thing we can see about Harden is that he doesn’t seem to care much about 2nd order consequences. he didn’t care about the downsides of the Westbrook trade. He didn’t care that his trade request killed our competitiveness in free agency.

and if we are properly diagnosing his problems with our roster, he doesn’t care that EGo is a negative contract that will cost us assets or that it doesn’t make sense for us to extend PJ.

 

It's not cool what Harden is doing. But I'm not sure if I'd be able to act more maturely if I was in his shoes.

 

Maybe if he didn't slow walk off the ball everywhere it would be easier to counter those doubles. But that's just me.

 

You don't think you could at maturely if you were 32 years old, making 40 million a year, and made the face of a franchise and an entire city? Lebron was acting more mature at age 16.

I say this as somebody that doesn't care what Harden does outside of the NBA, as long as it doesn't impact his performance on the court. But let's not pretend this is some "woe is me" situation for my guy Jimmy Buckets.

 

We have debated this many times.

I will say this though, if he really wants to win (and I believe he does), there comes a point where he needs to try something different.

 

So is he 2 yards away from here or is he at a club in Vegas? Haven't been following the past week or so.

 

This Lil Baby is a big problem. Hopefully Houston legend Travis Scott comes to save the day. He would never let Harden miss training camp.

 

Like Silas said, give the dude some space

 

Whatever, my money is still on Harden UNTIL he changed jersey.

 

Traveling Queen says he’ll be here “soon”.

 

If she loves you, she'll show you.

 

Who?

 

No no no.... For about a good 2-3 months Westbrook was our best player. At that same time Harden was playing like crap. It's funny how Harden always get a pass. Let's call a spade a spade. The difference for me is I'm not a fan boy of any of these guys and can see things both ways without blinders.

Yes I agree Westbrook was by far the worse player for us in the playoffs, no excuses. In the same token when Harden folds in the playoffs people come up with excuses for his down falls.

 

That is why he is playing GM, child's play.

He isn't serious.

 

Harden had a slump, but Westbrook was never the team's best player. Ever. He was not a net negative at a time when Harden had a brief slump, that doesn't make him the team's best player.

 

you know how NORAD has the Santa Tracker every Christmas Eve? well, that tells me the technology is there. I don't see why they couldn't do a James Harden Tracker so we'd all know where Harden is today. Get 'er done Murray . . . oh wait.

 

Dwight Howard wanted to do too much on offense, despite having one of the best SGs in the game at that time. He tried to be Shaq to Harden's Kobe and ended up with pie on his face. Problem.

No one complained about CP3, the person. But when it came to CP3, the hamstring? Problem.

Did you see Russell Westbrook play offense in the bubble? More importantly, did you watch opposing defenses NOT play defense on Westbrook? Problem.