Well, that's clear. I actually put Harden over Tmac because his teams win more. Period. End of story. Tmac's teams always underachieved, Harden's teams do the opposite. Tmac & Yao were supposed to be Kobe & Shaq, elite team in the West...they were mediocre for his entire stint with us. The only time I thought we'd have a shot to win was when Yao was dominating the Lakers (With Tmac out) and we had Artest and Yao suffered a career ending injury.
If you guys are going to rip Harden, at least compare him to Olajuwon, who actually won something. T-Mac doesn't have a long enough playoff resume to compare. Small sample size. T-Mac was great in the first 2 games of the first round every year, ill give you that. That one dunk on Shawn Bradley was awesome. And he was amazing in many regular season games. But Harden has the upper hand by virtue of having actually taken his team to the second round and conference finals.
Underachieved? Rox always OVERACHIEVED every year in the YaoMac era, the problem was when playoffs come Yao was always injured except for 1 year against prime Jazz and the last year when they went to the 2nd round. Every other year it was 40 yr old Dikembe Mutombo, 38 yr old Juwan Howard, Shane Battier and Rafer Alston. And those were the starters! Bench included crap like Scott Padget, Moochie Norris and other crap I dont remember. Meanwhile Phx had Nash, Stat, Matrix. Dallas had Dirk, Kidd, Tyson Chandler. Spurs had Td, Manu, Parker. Jazz had Okur, Dwill, Boozer, Kirilenko. Are you kidding me???? There's a reason Tmac never made it out of 2nd round despite having 12th highest PER in history. Who will win dragging trash like that against the best in the West?
Who cares who was worst. For me I had more emotional attachment to the Yao/Tmac era cause those two played with passion and gave it their all in the playoffs. And when they lost I lost with them. Harden's repeated apathetic performances in the playoffs have me disinterested in the Rockets at best.
McGrady never choked He couldn't get his team's over the hump but he never had clear mental laspes This started with the gisomebody block I'm not a tmac fan
tmac quits and doesn't show up to watch the Rockets play the Lakers, instead he picks against the Rockets on Los Angeles radio. Tmac quits before May and sometimes before April.
T-Mac never made it out of the FIRST round. Shane Battier, Yao, Young Aaron Brooks, David Wesley, et al were approximately equal to the talent Harden has now. T-Mac and Yao didn't overachieve. They were a perennial 50 win team that could never win in the first round.
McGrady never choked? McGrady only choked. James lost something he may never get back tonight. No problem with anyone saying or believing that. But Tracy McGrady was a p***y every night he ever took thr floor. James Harden's team would beat Tracy McGrady's team every time. And I will now extract myself from this shitshow.
this is so lame that yall are arguing this smh tmac ain't win sh*t and so far, harden has not won sh*t. so what are we doing here? who sucked more? lol ok
Bev Tmac Ariza Anderson Clint would destroy Bev Harden Ariza Anderson Clint oh and btw Bev Harden Ariza Dmo Dorsey would also destroy our Current team.
Tmac is not durable. So whomever replaces Tmac in the lineup. At least james isn't fragile phyiscally
I discussed this in a Facebook sports group two years ago. Ith know I should back a statement like that with a link. I'm searching
Harden has had MANY moments that are worse than T-Mac's worst. You'll actually see a play or two every few games from Harden than is worse than T-Mac's infamous Toronto game. But because he lead us to the WCF it erases it all in most people's eyes. Now the curious thing is - T-Mac never quit on the team in the Playoffs. So some people are going to be in a pretty big bind trying to explain this.
I'm not here to start another back and forth like in the past. But wouldn't you say being emotionally fragile is just as bad, if not worse?
You realize you are complaining about Harden in the semifinals That was never possible with tmac His complaints ended in April
