lol, can't imagine NBA players being excited abotu a better updated professional enviornment This is happening LEAGUE wide and dude here stanning tobecome the next Budget franchise..Can't imagine in a billion dollar business where the standard is raising that nicer facilities, equipment, space, options might just improve the culture and producivity of youre team when the other also cut throuat successful billionaires are all pouring money on it..You, Tlman and Donald Sterling would LOVE each other. Same minds, but one of those guys don't benefit from it from the other two is what makes it sadder "riffin then goes on to talk about how things have changed since Steve Ballmer bought the team. “Ballmer wants to win no matter the cost,” Griffin wrote. “Donald Sterling didn’t care if we won — at least if it meant he had to spend money. It wasn’t just about spending money on players. For years, our training staff wanted to buy this sophisticated computer software that would let them scan our bodies and keep track of our progress throughout the season. Sterling wouldn’t sign off on it. “When I walked into the training facility for the first time this summer, the entire vibe was different. People were smiling. From the security people to the game operations staff to the office staff, everybody seemed happy to be there. For the first time ever, they were on permanent contracts. Under Sterling, all the staff were on temporary contracts. Top to bottom, everybody just appreciates being appreciated now."" you do get that contracts allowed are the same. So we can offer a max, another team can...they have better faciltiies, fans who will rock with them not hte owner....but they'll choose just for @roslolian @tinman @Salvy, FernChito Boys to tell them to shut up and listen and pick up their boot straps and not worry about the other teams...then you'll have the door in your face back in the lottery to do it again...budget titles are hard man. If you ever think about it, should join us in rooting for the team to win, grow, get better,notcheaper.
Well why don't you help us all out and see if you can find one of Tilman's escorts who might have dirt on him. One of those girls might have something on him that'll force him to sell.
Lovely, now we got non-readers replying to posters. What are you, like a middle schooler? I'm not going to repeat myself.
Wasn’t asking you to. You said I ignored his MVP seasons when I had brought that up several times in this thread. None of what you said has anything to do with him self destructing when it mattered most.
I wrote more lines than that. Your post here proves you've not even bothered to read the other lines.
In fact, my post was extremely conditioned to what you wrote. There's no emotion unless you sit there perceiving it by having it read aloud in your head. That's not my fault. If you don't want to read, don't read. Just stop replying with 1-liners with nothing to talk about because you want to invalidate everything for what you perceive to be "emotions".
To be fair it was a pretty irrelevant rant. I also picked up on it being a passionate response. I agree with you that Harden had a big media bias against him in Houston. I also agree with you that he should’ve won more MVPs. Really has nothing to do with some Rockets fans talking about Hardens habit of imploding in big games. Dude would look like a deer in headlights. He didn’t get it done.
So I said harden implodes in big games. You agreed with me but then went on to talk about all the things harden doesn’t well and how I’m ignoring a media bias. I never said any of that. I even acknowledged harden is a top 1-2 player every year in the regular season. I really don’t understand what any of that had to do with him imploding in big games and being awful in elimination games in general.
Let me know if I missed your list of big implosions to discuss in previous posts. But based on the simple responses I've read, you've not listed what you consider to be "awful" games from Harden, and thus I had to make assumptions on my remarks. Thus I talk about lack of surrounding talent or budding all-start teammates, as well as the injuries that he had to play through. It's not just the media, Harden had to play through injuries. The biggest games that everyone brings up is the SAS series, and again, plenty of people on this board during the time mentioned how Harden looks like he's playing through a concussion. I didn't agree that he's awful during playoffs. I said I won't challenge it because evidence on your behalf (evidence that I have to imagine in my head) isn't lacking in merit. But being disappointed in Harden's abilities while taking into account for what he had around him is problematic when the formula makes complete sense to me. I leveled the playing field with Lebron, Giannis. They've both had better supporting casts than Harden up until this past season. And then this past season Harden was injured along w/ Kyrie. Harden did his best to play through it too. I also forgot, Lebron had an injured AD and he just quit on his team basically and nobody cares. Again, the formula is... Harden's off-court ways + subpar surrounding talent + Accurate measure of how good Harden truly is = Harden did fine in the playoffs. The way you want to say it is Harden + playoffs = disaster. Unfortunately, this isn't true. Go look at his playoff numbers or highlights. Or just simply look at where the Rockets are without him -- probably not making the playoffs for the next 2-3 seasons at minimum.
Harden tends to implode in big games. But let me guess: concussion, Blake griffin was being mean, refs, etc
Except this year thou, this year Harden has everything he did not have in the last decade.... Help, health, good training facility, good owner.... This year will be different...
