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My gut tells me trading Harden any time within the next month or so is worse than CP3 trade.

Discussion in 'Houston Rockets: Game Action & Roster Moves' started by LorneMalvo, Dec 14, 2020.

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  1. LorneMalvo

    LorneMalvo Member

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    Just a general feeling. Tilman said he’d be uncomfortable with Harden and try to make this work.

    Embrace the angst. The roster is simply too good to panic trade this guy just to get over the uncomfortableness.

    This team’s potential is extremely high. John Wall is quietly a playoff player. All his stats and impact spike tremendously in his playoff career.

    Christian Wood May very well be an all-league talent.

    Nwaba is at least as good as Luc. Possibly as good as RoCo.

    And Boogie has a lot left. Plus new coaching. You simply don’t destroy a foundation like this for one guys emotional state.

    That Bill Simmons video showed this with Hakeem in 93, Pippen in 98, and Kobe in 07.

    KEEP HARDEN INDEFINITELY.
     
    #1 LorneMalvo, Dec 14, 2020
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    Naw, trade him. If the dude wants out no matter what, keeping him would bring the rest of the team down. It's time to move on.
     
    #2 alethios, Dec 14, 2020
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    They'll get some very good talent for Harden.
     
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  4. LorneMalvo

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    But he doesn’t want out no matter what necessarily. It’s a slippery slope, he’s playing the season out.

    What’s his limit? If the Rockets are gonna be a top 2 seed, you think he’s gonna just quit at the ASB or sit out the playoffs?

    This team is a cult. Harden has been disillusioned, but if they start winning, and they start dominating, the fun comes back, that addicting feeling of winning comes back, ego comes back.

    That cult camaraderie comes back. This is literally like Hakeem in 93. New coach, new system, a lack of control.

    They can reel him back in, it just depends on how this team looks.

    Even jackasses like Dan Gilbert couldn’t ruin the Cavs for LeBron. Tilman can’t be so bad Harden can’t tolerate him at all.

    Just keep his fat head in the offices and away from practices and team events where Harden is.
     
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    #5 YOLO, Dec 14, 2020
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    definitely I.D.I.O.T.
     
    #6 Os Trigonum, Dec 14, 2020
  7. DM'sVP

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    My gut is telling me that things go great in Houston this season and **** goes real sideways in Brooklyn which leads to Durant wanting out. Next offseason the Rockets cobble together enough salary to trade for a fully healthy Durant and win a championship with Wall, Harden, Durant, Wood, Cousins as their starting 5.
     
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    REEKO_HTOWN I'm Rich Biiiiaaatch!

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    I'm trying to push my luck with Harden. He's a moron that goes out maskless during a pandemic. Trade him for at least 3 picks and a good, young player.
     
    #8 REEKO_HTOWN, Dec 14, 2020
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    Nwaba is at least as good as Luc and possibly Roco? LMAO

    stop the fckery
     
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    Dumb posters trying to push an early trade. Fking wait, trading at a sht price is gonna make another Houston team a laughing stock (texans & Hopkins trade).
     
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    Harden is so mentally weak, Im sure a weekend at the booty club with his new teammates may change his mind.

    On the flip side, strong personalities in that locker room right now. Lots of potential conflict. Harden/PJ v. Wall/Boogie.

    The irony is they would all complement each other on the court if Harden could ease up on the iso just a little.
     
    #11 Clutch City1993, Dec 14, 2020
  12. topfive

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    Tilman would refuse to the pay the luxury tax.
     
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    And do we want a mentally weak superstar?
     
    #13 Lloyd Estacio, Dec 14, 2020
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    I rather have a superstar than returning back to mediocrity.
     
    #14 DatRocketFan, Dec 14, 2020
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    What other superstars are out there who want to be down with H Town?

    Do you want to go back to the Kevin Martin and C Bud days?
     
    #15 Clutch City1993, Dec 14, 2020
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    You know how HAAM people are going to go as soon as the vaccine is distributed to most? Tillies gunna be rolling in dough by next offseason.
     
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    Such hypotheticals that are literally based on so little
     
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    What’s the scientific formula to knowing if a guy is legit or not


    You realize Harden’s track record as a legit star player was about as fragile as Wood’s coming to Houston right?

    How long can a guy fake being good? What’s illegitimate about legitimate basketball played? Wood is a beast.

    Nwaba’s been quietly good his entire NBA career.

    Wall and Boogie are former all-nba guys. Boogie I’m not even high on though and I don’t have to be. He’s a backup. All he has to do is not suck and that’s easy for him.

    Unless Wood quits on account of being satisfied financially, he will come to Houston and beast. So will Nwaba.

    It’s n out even hypothetical. I’m literally assuming they’ll do what they’ve done. Thee is no reason Christian Wood can’t replicate his game on a team like this.

    You people are used to rooting for stuff like a terrible Joe Johnson and Westbrook on a downswing though so I can’t be surprised.
     
    #18 LorneMalvo, Dec 14, 2020
  19. Zoplicone

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    Absolutely not and such a fail on your first point. If you don’t think there is a key difference between dropping close to 20 on a winning team (Finals) compared to dropping whatever Woods did for less than a season on the Pistons then there is no point in that conversation.

    Anyone talking like Nwaba has already arrived is idiotic. 5 teams in 5 years. Only 20 games last year, the only time he was on a half decent team (and that’s literally all they were, half decent). Then you have wise guys being like “that’s what people said about Ben Mclemore!”
    Spoiler alert: If we added three Ben Mclemores to our roster last year we would have done absolutely nothing more, nothing less.
     
    #19 Zoplicone, Dec 14, 2020
  20. LorneMalvo

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    Yeah shutup stupid. Right again.


    Don’t get into the habit of projecting your lack of perceptiveness and imagination onto others.
     
    #20 LorneMalvo, Dec 27, 2020
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