I'm hoping Harden retires along with Westbrook. He's had his run of being head honcho. OKC's new young core is top seed in playoffs. Harden's time as "the system" is done. The snake can keep hunting for more easy rings.
Glad all the "super" teams / All-Star pairings (to win a trophy) have lost or struggle to even make the play-offs and or do well, yet the ones who have drafted well and or made good deals for draft capital and or solid players are the winners. Especially the contenders and strong teams who would've won regardless of injury situation: Nuggets - home grown Celtics - home grown + trades Thunder - home grown + trades Timberwolves - home grown + trades Knicks - trades Harden laying a dud again is just like clockwork.
where are all the Kyrie haters at? "Hurr durr he's gonna break up the mavs team chemistry". wrong on that one
Just like ALWAYS when a team needs its star player to rise up Harden is not doing it. Last two game 1-13 from 3 point. McHale was right James isn't a winner. If you still believe in James you are delusional. If he ever wins it will be because he is on the bench just like when the Rockets came back on the Clips years ago without James. Enjoy the club and early parties. Loser. Never hang James jersey in Houston. Never.
I'm most definitely not a Kyrie fan but have never questioned his ability. A few things. 1 He most definitely was a chemistry destroyer in Boston his second year there. Not even a debatable point IMO. I followed that team closely. 2 On the Nets, he demonstrated in multiple ways a complete lack of awareness that was breathtaking. He brought all of the flack on himself like he did in Boston. 3 There wasn't any chemistry on the Mavs for him to "break" when he arrived. 4 The experience on the Nets changed him in a positive way. One way was he gained a small measure of humility and awareness.
The mavs got incredibly lucky that he chose the mavs in FA and he stayed healthy and didn’t cause any trouble at all. I can’t believe that worked for the mavs
You could see Kyrie was motivated in this series. He wasn't trying to be the hero scorer. Instead, he played hard on defense, made plays. Maybe he has a chip on his shoulder against Harden because of the Brooklyn drama.
Harden simply is the player he has always been— a high iq player with great handle and vision, but non-elite shooting and physical traits. His leadership isn’t what anybody wanted, but mainly it’s that his game doesn’t fit the playoffs. Just like Chris Paul, Steve Nash, and even Damian Lillard.
Harden haters are loving it right now when it was Playoff P that was the no show. Harden was the only reason the Clippers made this a series. Meanwhile, PG disappears in every game and doesn't even guard Doncic or Kyrie so he has no reason to be tired on offense.
::sniff sniff:: Is that excuses I smell, again? It totally is! Shocker. Series tied 2-2 with game 5 at home. Harden proceeds to shoot 25% from the field going 7-28 and 7% from 3 PT going 1-13 in the final 2 games. Yep all Paul George’s fault
Yup! Same old stuff. He even got @RocketsDraftTV I mean @HardenVolumeOne I mean @StroudAndYorDaddy doing racist rants again.
