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How can I find the anthem buddy kids of today?

Please stop adding scores to the thumbnails. You are spoiling the party.

Will you stupid matriarchal fornicators please stop putting the SCORE in the thumbnail. If it's a fantastic finish don't give away the outcome. WTF? SMH.

It sucks, they shouldn't put it in the thumbnail

Real hoopers don’t care, we watch to study the game. Real hoopers know 🏀

@@Chaz1724that’s just not smart dude

Agreed! Let’s us watch the video to find out, basic RU-vid thumbnail logic

ive been commenting this for 2 years now. the editors are just ret*rded. in fact recently they've doubled down and now sure to feature the winner as the thumbnail picture (sometimes literally with hands up celebrating a win), so even if you manage to avoid looking at the score they still spoil it.

Its the system signature, all basket ball entusiast must now if the system signature ia deadly move

Agreed, Kawhi is the most calmest player I have ever seen, he’s very boring to watch😂😂😂 but as long as clip fans win some games, they don’t mine😂😂😂…..

as a raptors fan, nah it's not 😂

2secs later, he was like "oh shit! why did I do that" LOL

What about the 2019 game winner

1st game the fraud clippers have won this month, don't get ur hopes up this team is going nowhere just a bunch of washed up shot chucker's. NBA PAYED THE ROCKETS TO THROW GAME FOR RATINGS.

LMAOOOOO

Mr T aka James Harden 🤣

Thanks to NBA and you guys for sharing the polls on my page❤🎉.

If you made that money you were LEVITATING in heaven trust

I don't care about the Clippers, but Jim is a likable guy.

they'll be back to there ways next game.

You missed the refs cheating their ass off to help clips sqeek by the Rockets.

@@joecox1193 just take the L man

1st game the fraud clippers have won this month, don't get ur hopes up this team is going nowhere just a bunch of washed up shot chucker's. NBA PAYED THE ROCKETS TO THROW GAME FOR RATINGS.

Thanks to NBA and you guys for sharing the polls on my page❤🎉.

He got clowned on for calling himself one of the most unselfish players ever. But Beardman's been sacrificing his talents his whole career with very little pouting. In OKC, Scott Brooks played him as 6th man for 3 years in, despite being one of the most talented players on the team. In Houston, Tim Fertitta refused to go over the luxury tax and surround him with better players, despite being one game away from an NBA finals in 2018. (The next year he averaged 36ppg 7rpg 8apg) In Brooklyn, Kyrie Irving played less games then Harden, despite Harden being injured. In Philadelphia, he took a pay cut so the Doc Rivers could sign more depth, despite being owed $15million more. Generational talent that's been adapting and being unselfish since he entered the league when the 2019 rockets are down 0-2 and he averages 40/10/5 the next 2 games to tie it up, it doesn't count. when he puts up 35/8/5 and has more points/rebounds/assists/steals than steph in game 6, he sucked and steph was legendary to win without KD. in the bubble he put up 30 ppg on 67 TS% against an elite lakers defense that was just doubling him near halfcourt and leaving russ wide open. but he sucked. he also tends to have his best games end in near losses, which unless he has a time machine, i'm not sure what he can do about. putting up 39/10/9 on 62% shooting (field goal, not TS%) against the #1 defense 2015 warriors and being +12 in 41 minutes, only for the rockets to be -13 in his 7 minutes off so he loses by 1 gets forgotten. still a great game. he goes up 3-2 on the most talented team ever but cp3 gets injured so no credit for harden. he's had some disappointing playoff moments, but people way overplay it. I mean Harden does have 9 playoff games where he scored 40+ points, including 3 in the 2018 playoff run alone. Curry has 7 such games in his career. Butler has 6. Melo had 4. Harden certainly deserves plenty of criticism. But this idea that he’s never gone off in the playoffs is ridiculous. He generally had just kind of ok supporting casts and regularly made some decent playoff runs. His Rockets were also the only team to really give a healthy KD Warriors any real trouble. Cavs got swept and lost in 5. I think if you take "Most Valuable Player" literally, Harden should have won. Take Steph Curry off of that Warriors team, and that's still a good team. Take James Harden off of that Rockets team (keep in mind that Dwight was also missing for most of the season), and that team is very close to the very bottom of the West. Steph Curry had a phenomenal season, but I'm tired of team performance being taken into account so heavily in individual accolades. Edit: This is also coming from a guy whose least favorite player in the NBA is James Harden (tied with Draymond Green). Harden 2014-15. With out Harden the Rockets probably dont make the playoffs. With out Curry the Warriors still make the playoffs, just not as the first seed. I feel like considering that Dwight was injured most of the season and Harden fucking went ham to keep his team a float, that the MVP should have gone to him. The only knock on Harden was his percentages, but Harden still averaged 27.4 points, 7 assists, 5.7 rebounds and 1.9 steals for the season. Dem be MVP numbuhs. James Harden is an underrated defender and I will argue that to the grave The only reason mainstream media views harden as a bad defensive player is because of lowlight tapes where harden doesn’t sprint across the court to guard a speedy fast break but when Lebron sags on defense it’s considered conserving energy. Efficiency wise if a player is a huge plus on offense it makes sense to have them expend the majority of their energy getting points instead of making high energy cost/low return defensive plays. Especially when that player is by far the most effective offensive player on the team. Lebrons famous 48 minute playoff games utilize this strategy and Harden is the highest usage player in league history so it’s less about defensive skill as opposed to a strategic decision. This is why Harden prefers to guard bigs in the post where his style is more about stealing low rather than jumping to block. And when looking at his defensive efficiency in the post it’s up there with the best in the league. Defense isn’t necessarily about the flashy blocks of a Giannis or the scrappy pestering of a Pat Beverly. It’s about not letting the other team score the ball and Harden does a good not great job at that. I rest my case. At their peaks, Harden IS a better offensive player than Jordan (and Kobe) by every imaginable metric. Harden is a better offensive player at his peak than Jordan. Some of this is going to sound repetitive but follow along. Kobe averaged 5 rebounds and 4 assists in his 35.1ppg season. He did that on 27 FGAs, and a 56% TS Jordan averaged 5 rebounds and 4.5 assists in his 37ppg season. He did that on 28 FGAs, and a 56% TS. Harden averaged 7 rebounds and 8 assists in his 36.1ppg season. He's doing that on 24 FGAs and a 61% TS. Yeah well Harden shoots too many free throws. Harden: 11 FTA (88%) Jordan: 11.9 FTA (85.7%) Kobe: 10.2 FTA (85%) Yeah well Harden shoots too many threes that's why his TS is high. Harden: 54.1 eFG%, 52.9% from 2, 36.8% from 3 Kobe: 49.1 eFG%, 48.2% from 2, 34.7% from 3 MJ: 48.4 eFG%, 49.1% from 2, 18.2% from 3 (only on 0.8 attempts though) Yeah well the game was much slower back then. Per 100 Possessions: Harden: 48.2 PPG (highest of all time) MJ: 46.4 PPG Kobe: 45.6 PPG Yeah well compared to their league, Jordan stood out more. Then let's compare to the league average. Harden: 54.1 eFG% and 61.7 TS%, League Average: 52.4 eFG% and 55.7 TS% Kobe: 49.1 eFG% and 55.9 TS%, League Average: 49 eFG% and 53.5 TS% MJ: 48.4 eFG% and 56.2 TS%, League Average: 48.8 eFG% and 53.8 TS% This isn't even factoring in seasons Harden has averaged 10+ assists, and he's done that many times. Harden is a very capable defender when he tries. For majority of the game Harden plays defense but allows blowbys to avoid risking picking up fouls. Due to his heavy minutes, especially when he was in Houston, harden lacked in defense to avoid getting fouls, which is why he is known as a bad defender. However, in late game situations, especially in the playoffs, he locks in and is one of the better perimeter defensive players in the league. As for his post defense, he has been number one in the league statistically since 2019, and has even been second in the league in perimeter isolation points allowed per possession in 2020. In addition to all of that, he is an extremely smart player defensively. He knows when to help, where other players need to stand and is known for his defensive communication. His Houston rockets had the number one defense in the playoffs and in the bubble of 2020. Statistically James has been top 5 in steals for many seasons, number one in deflections for a few years, and has the most blocks by any guard since joining Houston. He has crucial defensive saves in important games including against Giannis, Porzingis, in game 7 of okc thunder, and even against embiid in the 2020 rockets 76ers matchup, where embiid got in a little skirmish with him after harden stopped him on back to back possessions. He may not play it the whole game, but when he tries harden is a top defender in almost every aspect, and a beneficial one to have on the court due to his intelligence. And people talking bout his defense are idiots, hes locked up and then shit on Kawhi/PG/Beverly in a 1v3 lmaoooo he has the most points on every team too plus like 3 years of 10+ assists and the others are 8-9 assists on top of 30-36.6 points. He's the only one who even challenged the KD Era warriors and lost because of blatant ref fixing and Ariza going 0-12 on wide open threes generated by Harden along with his second best player CP3 going down and Capela getting sonned by a rookie Looney. Harden was literally dunking on draymond all day and dray got pissed and shoved him like 30 seconds into a game because he got scored on twice fast. That's not even mentioning all that happened while facing the KD warriors who had 5 star players, 2 of which were the number one and number two best shooters in the history of the league, Dpoy draymond, a top 2-3 scorer in Durant, Iggy dpoy. Then waiving off 12 of Hardens points but not making the same call if he missed the 3...blatant lmao Harden has been a top 3 hardest working player for the past 10 years. Just because he likes strip clubs and partying doesn't mean he disregards practice and conditioning. This sub is just going with assuming narratives instead of taking 5 minutes to find out that Harden's workouts have been Kobe-levels insane for many seasons, doing HIT lifting after having played 40 minutes in an NBA game with historic usage and scoring rate for entire seasons because the durability demanded from Harden forced him to be insanely well conditioned. There are countless stories as well as statements by his staff and teammates about it, it's just easier to shit on a player for partying instead. Literally everybody who's ever played with Harden attests to his one-of-a-kind work ethic. The reason Harden has been struggling are injuries and playing through them as well as the miles on his body but it's 10000% not because he's lazy. He ONCE forced Houstons hand for 3 weeks because they wouldn't trade him despite his demands many months before the situation escalated. Other than that he's been more than textbook when it comes to work ethic, you don't become such a legendary offensive Superstar without working your ass off every day for many years. And yes Harden can come back, he's one of the most skilled players ever and he works out like a madman.

Man wrote an essay 😂

xD

That's because he invented it. He is the king of travels.

@@MadarakiFran He got clowned on for calling himself one of the most unselfish players ever. But Beardman's been sacrificing his talents his whole career with very little pouting. In OKC, Scott Brooks played him as 6th man for 3 years in, despite being one of the most talented players on the team. In Houston, Tim Fertitta refused to go over the luxury tax and surround him with better players, despite being one game away from an NBA finals in 2018. (The next year he averaged 36ppg 7rpg 8apg) In Brooklyn, Kyrie Irving played less games then Harden, despite Harden being injured. In Philadelphia, he took a pay cut so the Doc Rivers could sign more depth, despite being owed $15million more. Generational talent that's been adapting and being unselfish since he entered the league when the 2019 rockets are down 0-2 and he averages 40/10/5 the next 2 games to tie it up, it doesn't count. when he puts up 35/8/5 and has more points/rebounds/assists/steals than steph in game 6, he sucked and steph was legendary to win without KD. in the bubble he put up 30 ppg on 67 TS% against an elite lakers defense that was just doubling him near halfcourt and leaving russ wide open. but he sucked. he also tends to have his best games end in near losses, which unless he has a time machine, i'm not sure what he can do about. putting up 39/10/9 on 62% shooting (field goal, not TS%) against the #1 defense 2015 warriors and being +12 in 41 minutes, only for the rockets to be -13 in his 7 minutes off so he loses by 1 gets forgotten. still a great game. he goes up 3-2 on the most talented team ever but cp3 gets injured so no credit for harden. he's had some disappointing playoff moments, but people way overplay it. I mean Harden does have 9 playoff games where he scored 40+ points, including 3 in the 2018 playoff run alone. Curry has 7 such games in his career. Butler has 6. Melo had 4. Harden certainly deserves plenty of criticism. But this idea that he’s never gone off in the playoffs is ridiculous. He generally had just kind of ok supporting casts and regularly made some decent playoff runs. His Rockets were also the only team to really give a healthy KD Warriors any real trouble. Cavs got swept and lost in 5. I think if you take "Most Valuable Player" literally, Harden should have won. Take Steph Curry off of that Warriors team, and that's still a good team. Take James Harden off of that Rockets team (keep in mind that Dwight was also missing for most of the season), and that team is very close to the very bottom of the West. Steph Curry had a phenomenal season, but I'm tired of team performance being taken into account so heavily in individual accolades. Edit: This is also coming from a guy whose least favorite player in the NBA is James Harden (tied with Draymond Green). Harden 2014-15. With out Harden the Rockets probably dont make the playoffs. With out Curry the Warriors still make the playoffs, just not as the first seed. I feel like considering that Dwight was injured most of the season and Harden fucking went ham to keep his team a float, that the MVP should have gone to him. The only knock on Harden was his percentages, but Harden still averaged 27.4 points, 7 assists, 5.7 rebounds and 1.9 steals for the season. Dem be MVP numbuhs. James Harden is an underrated defender and I will argue that to the grave The only reason mainstream media views harden as a bad defensive player is because of lowlight tapes where harden doesn’t sprint across the court to guard a speedy fast break but when Lebron sags on defense it’s considered conserving energy. Efficiency wise if a player is a huge plus on offense it makes sense to have them expend the majority of their energy getting points instead of making high energy cost/low return defensive plays. Especially when that player is by far the most effective offensive player on the team. Lebrons famous 48 minute playoff games utilize this strategy and Harden is the highest usage player in league history so it’s less about defensive skill as opposed to a strategic decision. This is why Harden prefers to guard bigs in the post where his style is more about stealing low rather than jumping to block. And when looking at his defensive efficiency in the post it’s up there with the best in the league. Defense isn’t necessarily about the flashy blocks of a Giannis or the scrappy pestering of a Pat Beverly. It’s about not letting the other team score the ball and Harden does a good not great job at that. I rest my case. At their peaks, Harden IS a better offensive player than Jordan (and Kobe) by every imaginable metric. Harden is a better offensive player at his peak than Jordan. Some of this is going to sound repetitive but follow along. Kobe averaged 5 rebounds and 4 assists in his 35.1ppg season. He did that on 27 FGAs, and a 56% TS Jordan averaged 5 rebounds and 4.5 assists in his 37ppg season. He did that on 28 FGAs, and a 56% TS. Harden averaged 7 rebounds and 8 assists in his 36.1ppg season. He's doing that on 24 FGAs and a 61% TS. Yeah well Harden shoots too many free throws. Harden: 11 FTA (88%) Jordan: 11.9 FTA (85.7%) Kobe: 10.2 FTA (85%) Yeah well Harden shoots too many threes that's why his TS is high. Harden: 54.1 eFG%, 52.9% from 2, 36.8% from 3 Kobe: 49.1 eFG%, 48.2% from 2, 34.7% from 3 MJ: 48.4 eFG%, 49.1% from 2, 18.2% from 3 (only on 0.8 attempts though) Yeah well the game was much slower back then. Per 100 Possessions: Harden: 48.2 PPG (highest of all time) MJ: 46.4 PPG Kobe: 45.6 PPG Yeah well compared to their league, Jordan stood out more. Then let's compare to the league average. Harden: 54.1 eFG% and 61.7 TS%, League Average: 52.4 eFG% and 55.7 TS% Kobe: 49.1 eFG% and 55.9 TS%, League Average: 49 eFG% and 53.5 TS% MJ: 48.4 eFG% and 56.2 TS%, League Average: 48.8 eFG% and 53.8 TS% This isn't even factoring in seasons Harden has averaged 10+ assists, and he's done that many times. Harden is a very capable defender when he tries. For majority of the game Harden plays defense but allows blowbys to avoid risking picking up fouls. Due to his heavy minutes, especially when he was in Houston, harden lacked in defense to avoid getting fouls, which is why he is known as a bad defender. However, in late game situations, especially in the playoffs, he locks in and is one of the better perimeter defensive players in the league. As for his post defense, he has been number one in the league statistically since 2019, and has even been second in the league in perimeter isolation points allowed per possession in 2020. In addition to all of that, he is an extremely smart player defensively. He knows when to help, where other players need to stand and is known for his defensive communication. His Houston rockets had the number one defense in the playoffs and in the bubble of 2020. Statistically James has been top 5 in steals for many seasons, number one in deflections for a few years, and has the most blocks by any guard since joining Houston. He has crucial defensive saves in important games including against Giannis, Porzingis, in game 7 of okc thunder, and even against embiid in the 2020 rockets 76ers matchup, where embiid got in a little skirmish with him after harden stopped him on back to back possessions. He may not play it the whole game, but when he tries harden is a top defender in almost every aspect, and a beneficial one to have on the court due to his intelligence. And people talking bout his defense are idiots, hes locked up and then shit on Kawhi/PG/Beverly in a 1v3 lmaoooo he has the most points on every team too plus like 3 years of 10+ assists and the others are 8-9 assists on top of 30-36.6 points. He's the only one who even challenged the KD Era warriors and lost because of blatant ref fixing and Ariza going 0-12 on wide open threes generated by Harden along with his second best player CP3 going down and Capela getting sonned by a rookie Looney. Harden was literally dunking on draymond all day and dray got pissed and shoved him like 30 seconds into a game because he got scored on twice fast. That's not even mentioning all that happened while facing the KD warriors who had 5 star players, 2 of which were the number one and number two best shooters in the history of the league, Dpoy draymond, a top 2-3 scorer in Durant, Iggy dpoy. Then waiving off 12 of Hardens points but not making the same call if he missed the 3...blatant lmao Harden has been a top 3 hardest working player for the past 10 years. Just because he likes strip clubs and partying doesn't mean he disregards practice and conditioning. This sub is just going with assuming narratives instead of taking 5 minutes to find out that Harden's workouts have been Kobe-levels insane for many seasons, doing HIT lifting after having played 40 minutes in an NBA game with historic usage and scoring rate for entire seasons because the durability demanded from Harden forced him to be insanely well conditioned. There are countless stories as well as statements by his staff and teammates about it, it's just easier to shit on a player for partying instead. Literally everybody who's ever played with Harden attests to his one-of-a-kind work ethic. The reason Harden has been struggling are injuries and playing through them as well as the miles on his body but it's 10000% not because he's lazy. He ONCE forced Houstons hand for 3 weeks because they wouldn't trade him despite his demands many months before the situation escalated. Other than that he's been more than textbook when it comes to work ethic, you don't become such a legendary offensive Superstar without working your ass off every day for many years. And yes Harden can come back, he's one of the most skilled players ever and he works out like a madman.

@@sakshamdwivedi4273all true and I watched every bit of it, I’d argue that he’s a better playoff performer than he gets credit for. the losses just look extra bad because he always is the main guy for the most part and he didn’t get over the hump so that’s what people remember but I don’t think anyone could of pushed the kd warriors with Scott foster refereeing those games the way harden did😂

Have you watched Steph Curry play basketball?

Because he is a system

6 games winning streak is wild specially they beat denver laker and gsw

Not gsw

Yall Rockets are solid this year😊😊

There was some incredibly sketchy officiating in this game.

my number1 idol🎉🎉🎉

What about kawhi foul on jalen green that was missed

1st game the fraud clippers have won this month, don't get ur hopes up this team is going nowhere just a bunch of washed up shot chucker's. NBA PAYED THE ROCKETS TO THROW GAME FOR RATINGS.

3 & 1 😂😂😂😂

What narrative, hes a team killer when hes not the nr1 option. When hes the nr1 option, that team will never go far in the playoffa

@@Browsinginbthe narrative that he chokes his guts out in the playoffs is 100% accurate

@@Browsinginb you so brainwashed, you don’t even realize when you spitting the same lines as these analysts. James Harden is a baller. He doesn’t deserve any other title based on what he’s brought to the game.

@@tkh525 the playoffs is brutal in the NBA and NFL. A team that barely made it to the dance can heat up and dominate. The post season is about coaching and adjustments in a seven game series. Star players don’t mean anything at that point!!!

Ikr, spoils everything

bro he threw a grenade to harden and harden bailed him out

​@@kobekobekobe😂😂😂

He missed clutch points against Grizz and Denver at last possessions

@@kobekobekobe actually, he drew attention from Hardens defender , cause him to have to move more on that defensive play. Harden just got into his signature move, do what he is capable of doing.

@@tjohnson321 I 100% agree. Harden got into his dribble dribble, 3 pt shot then fall back like he got hit w/ some potent-ass invisible one-finger punch👍👍

He got clowned on for calling himself one of the most unselfish players ever. But Beardman's been sacrificing his talents his whole career with very little pouting. In OKC, Scott Brooks played him as 6th man for 3 years in, despite being one of the most talented players on the team. In Houston, Tim Fertitta refused to go over the luxury tax and surround him with better players, despite being one game away from an NBA finals in 2018. (The next year he averaged 36ppg 7rpg 8apg) In Brooklyn, Kyrie Irving played less games then Harden, despite Harden being injured. In Philadelphia, he took a pay cut so the Doc Rivers could sign more depth, despite being owed $15million more. Generational talent that's been adapting and being unselfish since he entered the league when the 2019 rockets are down 0-2 and he averages 40/10/5 the next 2 games to tie it up, it doesn't count. when he puts up 35/8/5 and has more points/rebounds/assists/steals than steph in game 6, he sucked and steph was legendary to win without KD. in the bubble he put up 30 ppg on 67 TS% against an elite lakers defense that was just doubling him near halfcourt and leaving russ wide open. but he sucked. he also tends to have his best games end in near losses, which unless he has a time machine, i'm not sure what he can do about. putting up 39/10/9 on 62% shooting (field goal, not TS%) against the #1 defense 2015 warriors and being +12 in 41 minutes, only for the rockets to be -13 in his 7 minutes off so he loses by 1 gets forgotten. still a great game. he goes up 3-2 on the most talented team ever but cp3 gets injured so no credit for harden. he's had some disappointing playoff moments, but people way overplay it. I mean Harden does have 9 playoff games where he scored 40+ points, including 3 in the 2018 playoff run alone. Curry has 7 such games in his career. Butler has 6. Melo had 4. Harden certainly deserves plenty of criticism. But this idea that he’s never gone off in the playoffs is ridiculous. He generally had just kind of ok supporting casts and regularly made some decent playoff runs. His Rockets were also the only team to really give a healthy KD Warriors any real trouble. Cavs got swept and lost in 5. I think if you take "Most Valuable Player" literally, Harden should have won. Take Steph Curry off of that Warriors team, and that's still a good team. Take James Harden off of that Rockets team (keep in mind that Dwight was also missing for most of the season), and that team is very close to the very bottom of the West. Steph Curry had a phenomenal season, but I'm tired of team performance being taken into account so heavily in individual accolades. Edit: This is also coming from a guy whose least favorite player in the NBA is James Harden (tied with Draymond Green). Harden 2014-15. With out Harden the Rockets probably dont make the playoffs. With out Curry the Warriors still make the playoffs, just not as the first seed. I feel like considering that Dwight was injured most of the season and Harden fucking went ham to keep his team a float, that the MVP should have gone to him. The only knock on Harden was his percentages, but Harden still averaged 27.4 points, 7 assists, 5.7 rebounds and 1.9 steals for the season. Dem be MVP numbuhs. James Harden is an underrated defender and I will argue that to the grave The only reason mainstream media views harden as a bad defensive player is because of lowlight tapes where harden doesn’t sprint across the court to guard a speedy fast break but when Lebron sags on defense it’s considered conserving energy. Efficiency wise if a player is a huge plus on offense it makes sense to have them expend the majority of their energy getting points instead of making high energy cost/low return defensive plays. Especially when that player is by far the most effective offensive player on the team. Lebrons famous 48 minute playoff games utilize this strategy and Harden is the highest usage player in league history so it’s less about defensive skill as opposed to a strategic decision. This is why Harden prefers to guard bigs in the post where his style is more about stealing low rather than jumping to block. And when looking at his defensive efficiency in the post it’s up there with the best in the league. Defense isn’t necessarily about the flashy blocks of a Giannis or the scrappy pestering of a Pat Beverly. It’s about not letting the other team score the ball and Harden does a good not great job at that. I rest my case. At their peaks, Harden IS a better offensive player than Jordan (and Kobe) by every imaginable metric. Harden is a better offensive player at his peak than Jordan. Some of this is going to sound repetitive but follow along. Kobe averaged 5 rebounds and 4 assists in his 35.1ppg season. He did that on 27 FGAs, and a 56% TS Jordan averaged 5 rebounds and 4.5 assists in his 37ppg season. He did that on 28 FGAs, and a 56% TS. Harden averaged 7 rebounds and 8 assists in his 36.1ppg season. He's doing that on 24 FGAs and a 61% TS. Yeah well Harden shoots too many free throws. Harden: 11 FTA (88%) Jordan: 11.9 FTA (85.7%) Kobe: 10.2 FTA (85%) Yeah well Harden shoots too many threes that's why his TS is high. Harden: 54.1 eFG%, 52.9% from 2, 36.8% from 3 Kobe: 49.1 eFG%, 48.2% from 2, 34.7% from 3 MJ: 48.4 eFG%, 49.1% from 2, 18.2% from 3 (only on 0.8 attempts though) Yeah well the game was much slower back then. Per 100 Possessions: Harden: 48.2 PPG (highest of all time) MJ: 46.4 PPG Kobe: 45.6 PPG Yeah well compared to their league, Jordan stood out more. Then let's compare to the league average. Harden: 54.1 eFG% and 61.7 TS%, League Average: 52.4 eFG% and 55.7 TS% Kobe: 49.1 eFG% and 55.9 TS%, League Average: 49 eFG% and 53.5 TS% MJ: 48.4 eFG% and 56.2 TS%, League Average: 48.8 eFG% and 53.8 TS% This isn't even factoring in seasons Harden has averaged 10+ assists, and he's done that many times. Harden is a very capable defender when he tries. For majority of the game Harden plays defense but allows blowbys to avoid risking picking up fouls. Due to his heavy minutes, especially when he was in Houston, harden lacked in defense to avoid getting fouls, which is why he is known as a bad defender. However, in late game situations, especially in the playoffs, he locks in and is one of the better perimeter defensive players in the league. As for his post defense, he has been number one in the league statistically since 2019, and has even been second in the league in perimeter isolation points allowed per possession in 2020. In addition to all of that, he is an extremely smart player defensively. He knows when to help, where other players need to stand and is known for his defensive communication. His Houston rockets had the number one defense in the playoffs and in the bubble of 2020. Statistically James has been top 5 in steals for many seasons, number one in deflections for a few years, and has the most blocks by any guard since joining Houston. He has crucial defensive saves in important games including against Giannis, Porzingis, in game 7 of okc thunder, and even against embiid in the 2020 rockets 76ers matchup, where embiid got in a little skirmish with him after harden stopped him on back to back possessions. He may not play it the whole game, but when he tries harden is a top defender in almost every aspect, and a beneficial one to have on the court due to his intelligence. And people talking bout his defense are idiots, hes locked up and then shit on Kawhi/PG/Beverly in a 1v3 lmaoooo he has the most points on every team too plus like 3 years of 10+ assists and the others are 8-9 assists on top of 30-36.6 points. He's the only one who even challenged the KD Era warriors and lost because of blatant ref fixing and Ariza going 0-12 on wide open threes generated by Harden along with his second best player CP3 going down and Capela getting sonned by a rookie Looney. Harden was literally dunking on draymond all day and dray got pissed and shoved him like 30 seconds into a game because he got scored on twice fast. That's not even mentioning all that happened while facing the KD warriors who had 5 star players, 2 of which were the number one and number two best shooters in the history of the league, Dpoy draymond, a top 2-3 scorer in Durant, Iggy dpoy. Then waiving off 12 of Hardens points but not making the same call if he missed the 3...blatant lmao Harden has been a top 3 hardest working player for the past 10 years. Just because he likes strip clubs and partying doesn't mean he disregards practice and conditioning. This sub is just going with assuming narratives instead of taking 5 minutes to find out that Harden's workouts have been Kobe-levels insane for many seasons, doing HIT lifting after having played 40 minutes in an NBA game with historic usage and scoring rate for entire seasons because the durability demanded from Harden forced him to be insanely well conditioned. There are countless stories as well as statements by his staff and teammates about it, it's just easier to shit on a player for partying instead. Literally everybody who's ever played with Harden attests to his one-of-a-kind work ethic. The reason Harden has been struggling are injuries and playing through them as well as the miles on his body but it's 10000% not because he's lazy. He ONCE forced Houstons hand for 3 weeks because they wouldn't trade him despite his demands many months before the situation escalated. Other than that he's been more than textbook when it comes to work ethic, you don't become such a legendary offensive Superstar without working your ass off every day for many years. And yes Harden can come back, he's one of the most skilled players ever and he works out like a madman.

@@sakshamdwivedi4273All that, but when the playoff lights get bright, he chokes.

haha facts hes must see

these 5 games, harden never went below 50% fg percentage and his true shooting percentage is 65

@@smoothoperator7023 he "choked" against one of the best teams of all time in the KD Warriors, who whooped Lebron every single time, im pretty sure Harden and the Rockets were the biggest threat to them rather than the Cavs. Still carried his team to the WCF, even bailed out the MVP last playoffs. That's much more than you can say guys who have a "killer" reputation like Dame.

Yea wtf commentator didn't even give him credit

And then finished on the other end that was key play

Ime udoka is one helluva coach

Don't forget the Orlando Magic

They had won 6 straight havent played since like sunday... literally couldve easily won this game but fucked up lol

Fred is a really good leader, he came up under kyle lowrys wings. Brooks will always play with heart and passion which brings a team together. The rest of the young guys have major potential and the addition of those 2 vets plus jeff green are perfect to get the young guys to where they need to be. Huston made perfect moves this season no matter how much ppl clowned them for the signings

​@@SiyabongaTwala-fc6uqAre they playing in this video? No right?

last 2 minutes was good when harden has the ball on his hands and zubac could actually score, the rest of the game was just fucking pg13 shooting fadeaways

Eh, it's a new system, they'll figure it out

I actually think their offence is very effective in the clutch due to the nature of teams using high amounts of iso offence in clutch time. PG, Harden, and Kawhi are all elite iso players, but overall I agree they need a better system to move the ball on offence throughout the whole game. I believe that’s why Russ should be starting over Harden

russ does not move the ball around as well as harden during offense, but he does better in fast counterattacks, russ would actually contribute to the team if pj tucker stops having the same playing period as him@@tsunamigamingandvlogz1608

The Rockets definitely had their chances but didn't capitalize

1st game the fraud clippers have won this month, don't get ur hopes up this team is going nowhere just a bunch of washed up shot chucker's. NBA PAYED THE ROCKETS TO THROW GAME FOR RATINGS.

They'll probably switch it