With harden on this team, no hope to win a championship

I really would love to know how do you think..!!
I have been trying to figure out your posts on this thread, are you trolling or being serious..!!!!!

How the **** in the world would you trade an all-star for unproven young guy with unknown future, it's truly amazing how some of you guys think on this board, I can't even fathom how a rational person would even think about trading Harden for Leonard

 

I've been saying since the SUMMER we need another wing on this team, who can defend and score, off the bench. WE NEED A LEGIT BACKUP 2! We tend to loose games when Parsons is out or ineffective. Garcia is hit or miss. If his 3 isn't falling, he is ineffective!! We have no one who can penetrate to the basket......every shot is a 3 or punch it down to Dwight, where he tends to turn it over

Wesley Johnson would have been the PERFECT FIT on this team, rather than Ronnie Brewer. We need an athletic wing to play behind Harden.

BUT I'M GLAD DWIGHT IS SPEAKING OUT, HARDEN ISN'T TAKING IT SERIOUS YET!. HE IS 24 AND FEELS HE HAS TIME ON HIS SIDE. DWIGHT NEEDS TO LOCK THE DOORS AND HAVE A SERIOUS ONE-ON-ONE W/HARDEN IMMEDIATELY!!!!!

 

I wonder if Harden's still partially injured.

 

Injured? It wouldn't surprise me if we hear that he was seen at a club tonight after the game. He was at a club during the time he was out with a foot injury. The guy is just young and he needs to learn to take is craft/job SERIOUSLY, like Paul George!

 

honestly, I think this is half to three-quarters of Harden's problem right now--and NONE of us can really know for sure. It has to be close to impossible to play NBA basketball if your feet are killing you, and I give Harden credit if that's what's really going on and he simply isn't wanting to use that as an excuse.

That said, the fact remains that a 100% healthy Harden would still likely be having some defensive lapses and coasting on defense at various points of nearly every game. But what we're seeing right now surely has to be at least partly attributable to lingering pain.

 

so it injury again?

 

I was going to say that Harden is playing defense like a white man, but I take that back. I know white players past and present that play much better defense than James Harden.

 

This team has no future if Harden is playing for stats.

 

Only thing that would really spark him is if Kevin McHale was to challenge him to play defense. I honestly don't think he respects McHale as a head coach.

 

Get a good coach, there is no problem with Harden.

 

Some guys are a bit to emotional for thread starting privileges.

Case in point.

 

Agree 100%

I seriously think that I'm now dumber for having read the opening post of this thread...

 

Not Harden for Kawhi but maybe Harden for Afflalo and Magic number 1 pick next year

And then get a real coach and fire this lump McHale

 

I'm blasting Harden's defense, but at least it's still a hell of a lot better than Kevin Martin's crappy defense.

 

False.

Martin was physically limited but at least played some D and gave effort. Haren is flat out negative on D and does not even bother to play D on most nights. Haren is much more physically gifted and equipped than KMart to play D if only he could get his mindset right.

 

Heart of this team? LMAO. No doubt we need his skills but we'll never win at the next level with his piss ass poor effort.

 

Can we stop talking about Championship, after a trade or after a win?

Can we stop talking about NO Championship, after a loss or whatever?

Can we just stop altogether? Let's become a real winning team with winning attitude first. Let's become a consistent and resilient team first. Let's become one of the playoff deep-run teams first.

 

we'll just have to disagree then. both of them suck terribly on defense compared to, lets say a d wade.

 

the one needs to deal with James is the coach. James is not going to carry the team single-handedly anywhere. You like it, or not. If he wants to be a successful core, he has a long way to go. Professional sport is not Hollywood movie. If he wants to be the dominant hero and bring a title to this team, he is doomed to fail in this modern league.