harden had 44 and 17 in the rockets opener. Harden wanted to be traded before the season. after the 44 and 17 game the rockets should have pulled the trigger on any trade. But you acting like tilman was gonna bring in salary after he was just hit hard by a pandemic. Tilman was only interested in picks and expiring contracts
CP3 said "A couple years ago" they wrote him off. He's talking about us. He's talking about the Rockets.
I like em both and Cp3 has been awesome, but at the same time they haven’t had to face a squad w two of its stars healthy yet. So I don’t think it really proves much.
LMAO all the people who knew anything worth a damn knew. Hey but by all means be on Tillman's side of history.
Congrats to the Suns for making it to the WCF. Buuuut they beat an AD-less Lakers and a Murray-less Nuggets. Not saying if those two teams had those players, the Suns would still win, but the Suns have been pretty fortunate that their two opponents both had key players injured.
Well it was literally the media who wrote him off. And rightfully so at the time. He was washed in 2019. Absolutely washed. He spent weeks on the injured list in the regular season, suffered a devasting injury in 2018, and clearly lost a step in 2019. Credit to him for "rebuilding his body". He evidently had more left in 2020 (bubble/break helped) and 2021 is looking phenomenal. I'm not convinced he would've been looking as good had the Rockets not traded him. Every situation is different, and in particular a D'Antoni system might have left him injury prone and less-effective compared to a Monty Williams system. In the end Morey didn't want to trade him, but Harden, or at least the desire to appease Harden is what forced Paul's exit.
Cp3 has been killer this series. Dude is still the best pure point guard and one of the best leaders in the NBA despite being 36. Every team he has gone to the past 5 years have improved immediately. The rockets won 60+ games for the first time in the harden era. But after two seasons they suddenly "knew what they had to do." Harden, tilman and Morey decides to trade him to Okc. The team everyone thought would be left for dead without PG and WB not only made the playoffs, they were better than the previous year. Oh they also pushed the Rockets to 7 games and only lost on the last possession. This year he goes to PHx and leads them to 2nd place and WCF. I can understand fearing CP3 age, contract and health. It's an understandable fear and a reasonable overreaction. But how Harden, Tilman and Morey would rather have WB instead was incredibly stupid imo. How they thought health, age and contract along with fit wasn't even worst with WB is just dumb and resulted in one of the worst trade this decade. Perhaps Morey was forced into the trade, but Harden and Tilman are 100% at fault imo. No team is making that trade without the approval and imput of their franchise player or the owners approval. One wanted a new shiny object and the other someone new yet familiar and less demanding. Rockets fans got something shiny on the outside but rusted on the inside. Worst that rust is still growing.
You right. Just looked, DreamShook was not here for the CP3 slander. But CF has great hindsight. “CP was great, his contract was great, I’m not even sure why we traded him?!” Nah, Tilman, Harden and majority of CF were complaining about his contract and play. “Harden has no help! His contract is gonna hamstring us. Bottom 5 contract.” on and on and on…
Paul wasn’t even “bad” overall in the 2019 playoffs. We just had no chance if he wasn’t great. He wasn’t fully healthy and he wasn’t great and it showed but he was not bad. I had doubts he was the answer to us beating that Warriors team but I had no interest in trading him. He fit so well with the things the rest of our team wasn’t any good at. Mid range assassin and a low turnover high IQ game manager that could run a 2nd unit and actually increase leads with them while Harden rested. Sucks we only had 1 good year to really do it. For various reasons as a basketball fan I wanted to see the Suns, Jazz or Nets win it this year. Wouldn’t mind seeing Paul win one at all.
