Portland forcing Harden to his right: Where is the coaching adjustment?

Milk Hair needs to draw a duck facing left.

 

He needs to hit threes off picks and he's getting open mid-range jumpers at times. He has to hit those.

McHale could run some set plays to help free him up, but this is more of a Harden thing imo.

 

noticed that throughout the game

 

its very simple. Have Jeremy be on his right side and Parsons between the two of them. They over play Lin's right, so that means there should be a wide open lane for CP25 to come running through like Adrian frigging Peterson

 

its a soft double team. your man plays the close shot while the helper zone plays the penetration or alley oop to dwight. the adjustment is to post dwight to force the hard double team down low to free up the shooters but dwight is not really good at looking for his shooters on the hard double team. the issue here is the rockets never played this way through out the regular season which is off setting their team chemistry. they need to gel with this play set (low posting dwight) immediately to become successful.

 

he has improved his right hand from last year but he doesn't attack with as much force as he does left...

 

good observation but going to his right is least of the issue.

he definitely seems uninterested and I have gone out of my way to not notice it.

When portland goes on a run in game 6 I am concerned that harden will give his final quit. His body language is atrocious.

Harden has been my boy all season and watching most of the games it's clear that harden is a sick sick player.

right now he is a different kind of sick. I think he's slightly sick mentally.

something has happened. I am not sure what but he looks ready for the offseason. I hope he has not gone full diva yet but he is scaring me.

I wish he would just wake the f up and stop being a baby that he is not getting 100% of shots and the glory.

I don't know the guy but he comes across and arrogant and not in a friendly way. It would rub anyone the wrong way. Up until now in these playoffs howard is the definitive leader and is carrying his weight. I think harden is being a bit of a baby about that and not being team player. But that's just my observation as an outsider.

Who knows maybe they are all best chums and harden just has really crap body language and not a big ra ra guy. That said he did seem ra ra at beginning of series and was screaming and hooting chest thumping. Now he just seems completely uninterested. Too cool for even the game and all of us. God I hope not

 

Tmac could go right.

 

Vator, you ignored me on Titanfall today

 

The Portland coach made the adjustment for that very reason.

Harden has to practice and hit those shots because the playoff aren't going to give you what you want.

They want to make you uncomfortable and you as a player, with some help from your coach, have to adjust.

Look at the Jordan rules, this is what superstars face, your game has to evolve with these challenges or the opposition will do everything it can to shut you down.

I mean, he's missing wide open mid-range shots and open looks off picks. Coaching tries to give you the best shot possible or open looks, after that its up to the player to connect.

 

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Harden needs more game from midrange and look to start his offensive from there rest of the way. Make Mathews work on defense ! Harden is not burning any of this guy's energy!

 

cause Harden is a super star. Mchale does not want to hurt his ego

 

Coach needs to do this coach needs to do that. Stfu already.

It's Harden's fault if he can't go right.

 

james harden in this playoff series is really showing us how valuable t-mac is and how far he still has to go to reach t-mac's level.

 

The bottom line is he's missing wide open shots that 3 weeks ago we're money. Sure Portland is def making him work on defense and playing him really tite on offenses but james harden is really good he's still getting wide open looks. Point blank he just needs to hit the shots. All it takes is harden to get to his reg avg on 3s and he woulda had 23 7 and 3 on 7/15 shooting and it's a good game for harden. It's in his head now and it's on him to get over it because he's been too good these last two seasons to be missing wide open 3s and easy mid range jumpers.

What I have noticed is he's been real hesitant when taking his step back jumper he's not letting it rip but rather over dribbling and to many pump fakes. He needs to just take the shot in the flow of the move. If it goes in great if it doesn't so be it but he needs to play his game.

 

run pick and roll to death? nahh, we're too good for that gimmick. Iso all the way from the three point line mano a mano with 4 more manos. that's the way to go.

the adjustment, throw it to dwight. =)