Did you know that the vast majority of human beings on this planet have never even had steak before? Dog food is an upgrade for them. In Japan, scientists have recently discovered how to synthesize human feces and turn it into meat product for their populace to consume. It's part of the ongoing effort to find renewable food sources at low cost. The scary thing -- it's probably healthier than what you're eating when you buy a McDouble at McDonald's. I think Tmac and Yao were more like Chinese take-out. Any time you buy something that says "Made in China" you know it will break within a matter of days.
Harden is playing MVP type basketball now. You can sense he's on a mission. he's not the steak yet, but I think he's lobster
Ok, so you've moved Harden up to lobster ranking despite the fact that he was a virtual no show against Portland in the first round last year. But, poor liddle Tmax is dog food to you despite putting up impressive numbers in the playoffs for his career? What did poor liddle Tmax do to make you so mad at him?
Harden averaged 27/6/5 against portland, that's hardly a no show, yeah his efficiency and shooting were bad, but they were still better than mcgrady, Harden shoots 10-24, man Harden didn't show up, Mcgrady shoots 10-28, McGrady did everything he could. After that one season in Orlando where he drove incessantly, he settled into being a chucker and that's who he was the rest of his career, and the worst part it wasn't because of lack of talent, he had the talent to be one of greatest of all time, it was because he was a combination of no work ethic and negative leadership.
Take Tmac's worst postseason before his injuries got the best of him and compare it to Harden last year. Tmac still edges him out, his numbers weren't electric by any means but they were still better. If tinman wants to label TMac as dog food, good for him. I have no objections, really. But Harden hasn't proven anything here yet, either. So, lets give it some time.
Are you drunk? If so, go to bed and we can continue this conversation when you're sober. http://www.basketball-reference.com/players/m/mcgratr01.html http://www.basketball-reference.com/players/h/hardeja01.html Compare the two before T-Mac's decline years, also compare the teams and competition they played against. When you sober up, tell me how you came to this conclusion in essay form.
It'd help if you read what was said instead of what you think was said And even apart from that, the issue was McGrady was a bad shooter who took a lot of jump shots, it wasn't a shooting slump (like Durant, and Dirk had in round 1 as well), it was straight chucking, there was no chance of regression to the mean like happened in previous years where these players played extended campaigns, he was already at the mean.
tmac is the 2nd best player since hakeem. harden has a chance to surpass that but he hasn't been here long enough. Tmac is probably still a better player than harden but harden's got that drive, that leadership that tmac never had.
60 wins in the regular season. If they can pull of 60 wins this year, something the rockets have never done, I would give it to Harden.
What's kind of crazy to think of is it TMAC had not asked out of Orlando he would of played with Dwight while he was in his prime and Dwight was a very quickly rising star. They would have won a couple of playoff series for sure in the East with those two.
I don't know what exactly happened, but in that 2004 season, Tmac and the Magic FO were are odds with one other. The bridge was burnt even before Tmac git traded here. I think TMac was mad they were trading his guys and not getting him help and the Magic FO evem called him a liar.
Superstar is such a subjective term. In terms of name recognition, jersey sales, all star votes Yao, T-Mac, Francis were far and away above Harden. Harden is playing great but it's way too early to declare him the best Rocket since Hakeem.
