James Harden or Clyde Drexler in his prime?

you are just very biased @tinman

 

Sorry but yes he is and every ex-NBA or current NBA player agrees. Harden has flaws but getting to the basket is not one of them and he is one of the greatest at ever doing it. Further more, he has his own unique style of how he gets to the basket. The Spurs didn't prove anything, other than they could have been beat by this team. That being said, the Rockets fans where left with a bad taste in their mouths. Game five was on the coach, game 6 was on Harden and the whole team for that matter, they where just horrible in game 6.

 

what's a coaches job? put his team in a position to win. In game 5, the rockets were absolutely in the position to win being up 1 with about 30-35 seconds left in the game. there's nothing about coaching that happened right after that it was "on" him

 

At this point we are not hoping, we observe and notice.

 

Wake me up when Harden win a championship ring with the Rockets. Without Drexler in 1995 Houston doesn't win their 2nd.

 

Cool but you wake me up when we have another player good enough to make Harden the 2nd fiddle of this team

 

It shouldn't have even be that close in the end. Love D'Antoni but Harden was gassed and committing TO after TO. Its his job to recognize this and change the dynamics. Otherwise, he is only a coach after and before the game but not during. They should have won by 10 and Manu wouldn't have looked like a superstar. In the grand scheme of things its one small complaint to a coach who did a great job throughout the year.

 

why not? its the playoffs. it's not always going to be nice and easy. When people want to think, this team should of won by double digits easily is not valid to me. No, you're going to have to grind out wins eventually. that's what separates you from other teams in the end. SA grinded it out all the way to the end despite being down and got stops when they needed it.