Most impressive is his help defense with his active hands, and the clippers game where he didn't let BG back him down.
Curry has proberly being a plus defender this year, I said it in anouther thread but ill say it again. Curry just funnels his man to bogut, basically what harden tried to do last year but better because he has better lateral quickness.
I love the video! Will rep after this post. I've loved his defense this year, and combine that with his offensive numbers....there's no possible way any TRUE NBA analyst could ignore him for MVP "IF" he keeps up his hard work on the defensive side of the ball. One thing that gets over looked in all of this is his leadership. Last year..he was quiet, Dwight was the loud one. This year, it's Harden. Playing for Coach K, and being the leader of that USA team really opened his eyes it looks like. He's always standing up on the bench after a player makes a good play. He's the first off the bench to high five a player after a time out. He's finally the leader I've wanted him to be. It's been a pleasure watching him grow as an NBA player and a person.
Morey is on this! <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>16-4&top defense w/majority of our starters out does not happen by accident. I present 2-way player&MVP <a href="https://twitter.com/JHarden13">@JHarden13</a> <a href="http://t.co/ilILURWgNL">http://t.co/ilILURWgNL</a></p>— Daryl Morey (@dmorey) <a href="https://twitter.com/dmorey/status/541990128256696320">December 8, 2014</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
Great video. Love seeing Harden give effort on the defensive end this year. He has all the physical capabilities to do it, he just didn't give as much effort the past 2 seasons. It's a start to change his national reputation, but I don't think it'll happen this early in the season. He has to show it over the course of the season and come up big in the playoffs.
Morey hitting that refresh on Clutchfans!!! Great video, by the way. Agree with Clutch that you putting the little Harden head above him at the beginning of each sequence makes the video very viewer-friendly.
Seriously though, would any other site have a member make a video, to only have hundreds of others tweeting it out to ESPN analysts, NBA analysts, etc. There's never been a sports fan site like Clutchfans. Period.
Really good work on the video. Nice job including commentator comments at some points. Impressive defense.
Awesome vid! Been hoping someone would make one like this to show his improvement this year. Harden being a minus defender is a thing of the past, he is having a great impact on that end this year.