Enough with the harden love. That’s like taking back a cheating ex knowing she’s going to cheat again if that’s what you into then all power to you but no to frauden
He'd actually be great for Sengun. FVV and Sengun ran an above average PnR for a long time. Harden would be much better at that than FVV. So we'd have that down. KD will get his shots, we've seen them in Brooklyn. It's Amen who will be marginalized and wonder wtf we're doing with his career. If I see myself as a star and the league's GMs see me as the most likely breakout star in the NBA and my coach keeps pigeon holing me into a swiss army knife type player - at some point I'm going to want to join one of those GM's who has a higher belief in me. Amen is the most valuable asset we own, period. He's the only asset that can give us a rare historically elite ability on 50% of the court (defense). Even KD only impacts scoring, he's not giving you historically elite overall offense on half the court (too low in assists). We don't have a player or a pick we would value over Amen. To keep marginalizing him is a bad idea, especially since his extension is coming up. Another guy who needs the ball in his hands just to not be negative = horrible idea.
I think it would require a significant haul of assets, perhaps more than we gave up for KD (assuming you valued Jalen as basically getting paid fairly or even being a bad contract). I also think our defense would be below-average starting Harden and KD together. And, as @Mathloom said, it would limit opportunities for Amen. I don't think it really makes sense at this moment in time. What I would support would be him coming back for a farewell tour in 2027 after his current contract is over. Off the bench, as a 6th man.
You'd have to send end-of-our-bench players to do a titty-bar crawl to find him. "Hey, aren't you on the Rockets? Yeah, Harden's back in the Stain Room. Up to you if you want to go in there."
that’s not even a realistic take! I’d rather have you say bringing somewhat affordable like Chris Paul so he could mentor reach Shepherd…
Reed could never ask for more than being mentored and coached by FVV and Chris Paul. If you want to try and learn how to be a good player being the short guy on the floor.
Its more to that story...the restaurant got shut down because Harden set up that opportunity for one of his homeboys to have a business to make money. Unfortunately, that person wasn't a good steward of that opportunity and he lost the business. Harden was not involved with Thirteen operations...just used his name to gain attraction. Also, the food was overrated and overpriced
Harden would be a great addition to this team. The main thing is he’s a solid play maker and can still score. the problem he’s faced in the playoffs is that he continuously gets doubled teamed and other players have to make plays. with the rockets I think they’d do just fine, with KD and Sengun. Capela a lob threat Amen a lob threat, fast break threat, dunker spot KD a scorer Sengun PnR Smith,Eason, etc as spot up shooters like a dream fit for harden
Even if Harden comes here, will his ego let him be 4th fiddle...behind Sengun, Amen, and Durant? Will he embrace his new role player status and sacrifice iso and scoring to actually facilitate and defend?
Rockets can only have waived veteran in trade deadline and I could only see CJ McCollum being bought out by Wiz to develop younger prospects and higher pick. Clippers and Mavs are not gonna waive their aging stars
I think we need someone. Someone that can be that pass first guy and can hit an open shot. There are options. I really don’t care for harden but I can’t deny he would be amazing here. I don’t know if the money works though
