Hardens already a really reAlly good player Defense - move his feet, stay in front of his defender He is young, he can easily improve that, has a chance to be a great player for years
that's something to improve on if he cant see wide open players on the perimeter when he's trying to take on 3 people. lets not rationalize and excuse ball hogging into camera angles and point of views. its as if wide open guys were behind him. they were in his peripheral. if he's not seeing them then that's one thing he can improve on.
Well, that's hardly a fair comparison. Harden has a 29% usage rate and turns it over 14.6% of his possessions. Lin gets far less touches (20% usage) and a higher TO rate (19.5%). I wouldn't mind less turnovers from Harden either (no one would) but comparing him to Lin is arguably less useful than just picking a number from thin air and saying "he should have less than (x) TOs" because their games, minutes, and roles are so different. I think Harden's turnovers are a little overstated. He turns it over a lot because he gets a MILLION touches. He's maybe a little turnover prone for an elite player, but the per game numbers are not the thing to go on. Based on his turnover rate, he's right with Westbrook and only a hair worse than Kobe or Durant. Defense was my pick. I think he's slowly picked it up so far this year, but if he even becomes an average defender relative to starting SGs around the league he will be an utterly undisputed top 5 guy for the rest of the decade.
