Are Harden's off court activities hurting his play?

Net negative on the court. He's become a weakness for the team.

 

He's playing hurt?
*sigh at Harden*

 

He is a severely flawed player. Limited offense (gets shut down by good defenders) and negative defense.

 

Dude pissing away his talent on strippers. Pathetic.

Hope it's just the injury thing. I have never seen anyone regressed as much, not even Tmac.

 

I am all for trading him this year, before the league realises how overrated he is. He is not a superstar. He has an inflated ego, thinking he's better than he is, taking many contested shots which he can make, but are bad shots. His defense sucks. He is the reason we lost this game. It was obvious they could not hold aaron brooks. Give him the ****ing ball and get out of the way. You're a shooting guard, not a point guard.

 

he's lazy as hell

 

yup, it pains me to say it as well.

 

Agreed on all points. He's only averaging 24 points per game while playing injured, what a bum.

 

I'm starting to wonder this as well. I don't care what players do with their personal time but if he's not able to give his all on the court because of partying to hard, that is a problem and I hope has the maturity to realize that and make the proper commitment to his profession.

 

Harden was the 2nd coming of Jesus Christ on CF after the Spurs game.

 

I called it before the season saying Haren will be found out eventually if he does not put work over the summer to improve his game and develop some new skills. Looks like he put zero effort this summer

 

Sure, while letting no name scrubs go for career nights and light him up

 

He's had two bad...well awful games coming off a painful injury. Wouldn't call this regression.

 

But he's handing out 25+ a game.

 

How can you substantiate this hypothesis?

His bad game can be easily explained without this. He has not been shooting well from the 3 (unlike in the preseason). Then he has a physical defender matched on him tonight. No other playmaker playing with him. His defense has been poor this season.

 

You people are so annoying it's like half of you don't even watch the game. Have you seen the Rockets style of defense? Did you actually watch the game tonight? Harden sucked yes but who didn't? Beverly is the only one on the team that plays consistent D. Everyone else is mediocre not just Harden. There wasn't one person actually trying tonight. For some reason our guards ALWAYS double in the post which leads to open shots. Again not just Harden. Didn't the Heat start off 9-10 their first year together? I remember LeBron struggling.. I HIGHLY doubt Heat fans destroy Harden they way you fools do. So he had a bad night who the hell cares the entire team sucked. He's balled out the last two games! For some strange reason most of you can't grasp the fact the Rockets as a team will have games where they just struggle their humans it happens. When we lose it's not just because of Harden.

Place would be so much more enjoyable if you focused on the team.

 

its starting to get real sad...

 

He literally looked inebriated on the court tonight, like he was in a total daze

 

I would rather keep parsons than him. We will never win a championship as long as he is our best wing player. Hell OKC couldn't even win won when he was the third best.

 

I was jumping up and down with him at a club last night, guys. My bad.