Jalen Rose: CP3 initiating with Harden on the floor

lol please dont associate me with that guy. Please...

 

I don’t know what Jalen is talking about when it comes to Harden’s “body language” in this series. Maybe whatever he’s seeing has something to do with getting the crap knocked out of him without a foul being called. Actually, the non-calls are true for all 3 games, but game 2, I’m surprised that he came back onto the floor at all. I do think Paul should spend more time running the offense and Harden spend a little time playing more like a traditional 2, just to mix things up.

Not sure about some of that other stuff. The one thing I am sure of is that we have to kick their ass tonight.

 

Screw jalen and pierce.

 

How about I’m not even a little bit tired of this offensive marvel doing all-time things?

I hope Harden takes all the shots. CP3’s drives were ****-grade crap in game 3.

Sincerely though, there are worse shooters to have in the corner than Harden. We have a whole position that just stands in the corner. He buried one in front of GSW bench in game 3 being the last guy on a swing pass. Just do that?

 

Jalen can take his gentleman's sweep and punch it deep into Pierce's stinkiest orifice.

No lube.

 

CP3 has not been good enough. He hasn't been good enough for a while. If you take out the good 2 week stretch he had towards the end of the season, he has been disappointing all season.

He can make it up. The way he can make it up is by being less hesitant to take 3pt and mid range shots. Even if he's not going to have a great %, sometimes he gets himself into a TO by insisting on a picture perfect shot. Yes he's declined, but I'm sure he can do better than this. We need him to remind the Warriors he's a threat, and this would be a great game for him to arrive.

Harden can help because his defenders no longer believe he will make a cut so they relax. Granted, Harden needs a breather on those plays sometimes, but he can certainly be a tiny bit more active and make his defender chase him around. I'm totally fine with us being light on set plays especially in the playoffs, but in that particular circumstance I think Harden gets a little ADD and MDA would be well advised to design a play to get Harden free off the ball.

Otherwise it's just Harden and Paul throwing the ball to each other laterally while the opponent defense sets up.

 

hot

 

The thing is, our entire offense is pretty much a stand around and space it out offense. Where would Harden go? He might be the pick man, but then that's putting the best defender on CP3 so why. I would prefer he get an off ball screen and setup closer to the three point line in the off chance he gets an open look, but there's not a whole lot else for him to be doing in the offense.

 

Your first mistake was paying attention to any of the bs that ESPN spews.

 

Guarantee that’s not the case. How do you know it’s not by design? You can’t tell me every defender isn’t still keeping an eye on him.

 

I remember last year CP3 and Harden taking turns running the offense and it was a beautiful thing. Defenses couldn’t key in on one person and were constantly scrambling.

 

It's basically because Mike sucks for offense.

 

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