Defense, I don't see any. Just because you have Howard and Asik behind you, doesn't mean you get to coast, Harden!!!!
lol. Interesting take. We welcome your brilliant insight to the bbs. Sadly I doubt you will last long
Am I the only one weeping inside when our team ignores wide-open Casspi, who is shooting 4-5 and 2-2 from 3pt? If he doesn't score a lot before this one's over, this is an L.
Harden has A LOT to learn. He really crippled this team with his ball stopping. One reason why I wouldn't mind rondo. Let a real set up man handle the ball and initiate the offense. Harden sucks in that role.
This is a trend already when certain someone is playing. No surprises here. For a team with championship expectations, at least playing defense is a must.
Time for Harden to sit on the bench for a while. I haven't really like the effort from Howard either, he is coasting again out there. Harden is scoring but with his horrible defense on Hayward its not making a difference.
Some of you need to chill. We're going to pull through this one. Keep the game close (within 10) and have Harden take over in the last minutes!! Harden is doing everything, give him a break on D!
man up. show some pride. jogging behind your man as he runs through simple screens.. should sit on the bench a little to consider your effort. doesn't matter if you score twenty five if your man scores thirty.
This is largely Howards fault, there's nothing wrong with the rules. Howard doesn't post up in the low post, but often 10 feet away. He then tries to back his man down all the way from 10 feet to the basket, which is not going to work against any officials. Howard doesn't quite understand how to use 1 dribble - 2 step move from the post either, despite it being his most used move. The idea of the 2 step is to slip past your defender or if you can't, fade back for a hook shot. Howard does the 2 step directly into his defender, which is almost always a charge.
My guess is Harden is not even close to 100%. He's forced to play due to Lin and Parsons being out- so that's why his D looks worse than normal
