even this version of Harden is such a huge upgrade over Ben Simmons a healthy Ben Simmons would’ve had 10 points, 7 assists, and no shot attempts in the 4th quarter tonight
Brilliant Harden rises like a phoenix. I'm happy for him. He shouldn't have walked out on our Rockets in an unprofessional manner though.
Just how bad was Robinson’s defense looking on film that the Heat can go 7-35 from 3 and Spo still won’t play him a single minute? Is dude actually hurt, and I just missed it?
He had one good shooting game from 3. How often does he shoot 60% from 3? on 8+ shots? The rest of his game was the same. Overall FG of 44%, 2/8 from 2 pt, 7 TO's.
Philadelphia I'd clearly the better team when healthy. It's impressive what Sporlstra gets out of the Heat
I dunno… I’m starting to feel like we should thank Harden every day that he forced his way out when he did. Had he been a nice guy he’d end up like Eric Gordon and time decreases trade value everytime on an aging star like Harden. James “Netted” us a real nice package that’ll pay dividends for years. Maybe we’ll never get a top 3 pick out of it, but I think the culmination of value over time will be one of the better superstar trade returns in late history. I am still salty about Harden forcing out CP3 though and maybe not forcing out McHale earlier to get a good coach in those vital years where we were more of a win now contender then we thought.
Miami could still take this, especially with the extra home game. Can’t bank on Harden shooting like that every game and they seriously denied Embiid from doing much of anything after his monster 1st Q. Will be interesting to see if they can continue to deny Embiid, whether Harden and Butler can keep up the offense and how any injuries change these last 3 games. Hope this thing goes 7. Should be exciting.
Remind me when they used to front Yao. The role players need to step up instead of force feeding. There's always an open man when you deny the big like Embiid
Harden shot way better today so that hopefully continues. He still can't get by his man so his shot better be on or else the Sixers have no shot.
Series is tied. Harden had a good game. Me peeping the thread to see if people are arguing? Looks like everyone's chill.
I really, really hate this kind of player only threads. When the guy is playing bad, the haters come out to gloat. When the guy is playing good, the lovers come out to gloat. Even within a game, when the guy plays well in the first half and bad in the second, or vice versa. Without fail. So predictable. So tiresome. Fills up the whole thread.
At least these playoffs are getting good now. Though it is funny this series has more posts in it then the rest of the semifinals combined.
