I blame McHale. If Harden isn't moving the ball them that's on coaching. Harden doesn't respect him and he reverts to trying to carry the team. All great players have that problem early in their development, Lebron, Kobe, Durant. It takes a good coach to teach.
They've had players meetings before. This is Plan B. Hopefully, it works. I seriously doubt it though - not until the coach says NO. Coach McHale? He'll say, "Uhhh. Please don't fire me, James. Pretty please? You can do whatever you want."
eh, its just true. and not necessarily a dig on harden. harden scores pretty well when he holds it. except, of course, when he doesn't. and at the end of the game, well, we could have used him tonight at the end of the game. harden also moves the ball well too at times, when thats his goal. my only complaint, and a constructive complaint i'd like to think , is that i'd like to see him mixing it up more. sometimes i think its too predictable, like he's just passing everything like he's not on the court, kinda disengaged. and other times he's holding everything. i realize he'll have to do that sometimes, but doesn't it seem like he could really throw the defense off by mixing it up a little more? maybe it would just confuse our team and lead to more miscues?
Not the first time CP has called him out - earlier in the season he alluded to him saying some of us need to stop playing selfishly, on both ends of the court. Didn't name him but didn't have to.
There's nothing wrong with calling him out. Harden has no championships to back up what he does. Is he a great player? Yes. Would making a change allow the team to perform better? Also Yes.
teams have tons of tape on how the offense runs when Harden is in. They have less tape on the Rockets without Harden. I am confident that if we played longer stretch without Harden eventually our offense would struggle. Same thing happens to QBs who start out hot and then there tendencies become known and they struggle.
Harden is the franchise player of the team and the team is being built around Harden. I wonder if Parsons gets the covert support of Dwight to speak out against Harden. The balance of power is hence tipped towards Dwight and Parsons this way.
People are making a big deal out nothing and its quite funny. James Harden himself would tell you he holds on to the ball too much. Not because he wants to hold the ball, but because what else can he do? If he doesn't dominate the one on one then he wont demand a double team. If there is no double team swinging the ball around won't get you anywhere because everyone would be closely guarded.
Some people think Harden is some veteran player when in fact PARSONS IS OLDER than him! Great players have to learn how to be great and no one here can say Harden isn't the most talented Rocket on this team even more so than Dwight. We need a better coach to help him reach that level just like Phil did with Kobe.
