It's reasonable to make note of major injuries, but not many guys play 82 games. There were 29 guys last year. Rubio and Love's record together last year was 40-42.
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Sure, there were debates, but let's be real. Harden was much, much, MUCH, more highly thought of than Rubio ever has been thus far. Everybody knew Harden was one of the better 2 guards in the league despite his role on the Thunder. Rubio is a middling point guard at best right now, and he plays in the league's deepest position. Whether he improves or not will be seen in due time, but this is not the same situation as Harden.
Of course it was. He played badly that series. But it wasn't like his reputation was just shot. He destroyed the Spurs the series before that, and everybody still thought he was a Top 30 or 40 or so level player. Nobody thinks Rubio is even close to that range right now.
Harden could shoot a basketball and finish. He had a 66% TS% that year. He showed improvement across the board that year.
Agreed, some people can be dense. Like people that don't look into situations, just say the first thing that comes to mind. Saying he's a loser is like calling Mitch Richmond a loser for not taking the Kings to the playoffs while he was in Sacramento. He was on Dream Team 2, but what a loser…..
You're being dense right now. I'm not arguing that there was serious debate about whether Harden was a max level player or not. There was. But Rubio? There is no debate at all. There's not a person alive that thinks he's worth, nor should he get, a max contract. The situations are different.
However, Rubio has a huge edge in every aspect of defense, court awareness, passing ability, getting his teammates involved, etc. when compared to Harden. To just say Harden could score at an elite level doesn't encompass all that he brings to a team, just like Rubio's lack of scoring ability prevent him from being a great contributor either. Focusing on one area of a player's game is what gets Rockets fans pissed about the attacks on Harden's defense and thereby calling him a scrub. But if type of reasoning is used to dismiss Rubio as a scrub, does that mean Rockets fans agree with everyone else that Harden is a scrub? Because we've all seen gifs of Harden losing his man and giving up layups left and right.
A lot of people on the internet don't use logic. Rubio sucks to people on here simply because he can't score omitting everything thing else he does well. Forgetting that Rubio's main thing is creating and making things easier for his team mates. Sort of like a point guard should be able to do. Forgetting that he would probably only take like 8 shots a game. Forgetting how awful Asik was under the basket, but how freaking valuable he still was for us 1 season ago. I'm not saying Rubio is worth upwards 14million(max) but he can definitely be had for x>11million and any trade that doesn't consist of our current starting 5 plus the NO pick is good to me.
this thread is pure trash.... anyone who keeps posting here is total loser , i got a thread i want to keep going and i guarntee it will go a long way cause some bs insiders know something... bs
Now you "smart people" are really trying to compare Rubio to Harden????? Because Rubio is coming off a season where he was arguably the most important player on a Western Conference Championship team? Did Rubio just win 6th man of the year? Did Rubio just get the blame for a collapse during the NBA FINALS? I'm sorry has Rubio ever taken a team to the playoffs, much less the Finals? Am I missing something?????? Sorry for calling you guys idiots, but...... It F-ing happens. If you put Rubio and Harden in the same conversation than you just need to take a step back and realize that you are a complete dumb a#$.
For that series, it was really just about the god awfulness of the first game (the one they won), for the 4 games they lost he basically put up the same numbers as he did in the regular season for them, he had a cpl good shooting games, a cpl bad ones, but that's what his season was like anyway. The player most responsible for that loss was Westbrick (if you dont want to watch, just look at the game 5 box score), but as the contract negotiations occurred, making it seem like his fault became an increasing factor. For me it was odd, i stopped watching after the finals and basically hearing wtf was Westbrick doing to coming back 3 months later to hearing it was Harden's fault, it was odd until I looked back at what occurred in those 3 months to rewrite history.
