Why James Harden's New Deal Is GREAT For The LA Clippers 

although it was useless with harris and pj on the line up

@@PlayfulCloud3 My point is he still did it for the betterment of the team, but nobody wants to talk about that. If other players did the same thing the media would be talking about it non-stop

​@@sydguitar99....i agree. I'm not a Harden guy but the facts are the facts. This is why he was so pissed at Morey. Morey lied and everyone knows it. He got away with it because some fans and the national media like having James Harden as a sort of "villain" because of how he left Houston and Brooklyn and i am not going to defend those actions. The man seems prepared to go all out for The Clippers and that's really all that should matter to Clippers fans. He's here to try to help you all win a title. He's still a really good player. Let's see what happens!

@@sammyslam1 and it's a shame, no one wants to give him credit or even want to take the time understand how bad of a situation he was in. And realistically if the Sixers had this Harden in the playoffs, they would have beaten the Knicks

Lebron betta

💯💯💯

So ironic

Avengers... assemble! 😉LFrank putting together an interesting group , can't wait to see it play out on the court. Let's go, Clippers!

@@oldmanyen2749 hoping for Zach Levine

What about derozan

​@@luislemus5442No more Klutch players. Get Demar Derozan

Is it possible we get DeMar?🤨

With what assets

Yuppp nobody wants to talk ab this tho. Tillman is literally the cheapest owner

Zu was crushing Gafford and Lively in Game 1. I swear I could see "a switch flip" as the refs gave Dallas a green light to foul late in Q2 and throughout the series. PG got in severe foul trouble in at least half the games. If this org is serious about winning it all, Ballmer should be hammering some league heads an earful and threatening to withhold further investment, while internally we MUST execute with better IQ at the player, coaching AND management level.

Zubac was only good in game 1. He got dominated by PJ and lively and gafford all series. He sss teeeible defensively. He’s just our last rotation guy so he played better than expected but he was awful. Mann was the only help that James harden had

@@andreslancheros2863 Negative Zubac scored at will, THE COACHHHHHH didn't use him. He scored every time in the series dam near. Ty is an ididiot. That's why Van Gundy is cleaning house already

@andreslancheros2863 also PG was being a bitxch, Zubac was fighting off 5 guys in his paint, so yes Gafford was alone.

@andreslancheros2863 Zubac gets help he will destroy Dallas paint, like he did when he was fed. Tf

Lebron betta

Im not a big fan of Zu but him and Harden before he got injured were phenomenal. So hopefully now that he's on for this coming season he continues to help Zu grow as a player 🤞

Yeah but they didn’t want to give Harden the deal after he won the 76ers two games alone and he kept the clippers in the series… make it make sense.

Man harden is the best pg in the league

Id keep Mann at 2. Maybe even start norm. Slide kawhi to 3. Maybe miles bridges signs and in that case he’d start at 4. Otherwise trade package to portland for jerami grant.

@@Wokonwater Clippers will not win with Harden pounding the ball and walking it up court … they need to get into their offense faster. Kawhi should be the 1st option every play, otherwise look for a fast break opportunity. Harden needs to be the catch and shoot guy, the #1 option on the perimeter, otherwise give the ball to KL on the elbow or post up. Zu should be the second option down low or pick & roll. It’s simple basketball. Lue is not a great coach and his style is easy to defense. Clippers may struggle to make the play-in 10th seed this season as currently structured, especially with a subpar coach.

Blame the media for needing a scapegoat/villain

Exactly

Teas gone cold I’m wondering why

Haha thanks man

Why are you on a clippers fan page if you aren’t a clips fan then?? Who TF are you

@@Jclipcity96 This is sports talk in general dude... no one is safe

​@@Jclipcity96cry 😢

I agree lol

We still don’t know

How old are you

@@LockedOnClippersIm old man Im already 39

@@pats1836 damn

@@LockedOnClippers 😅

That’s why it was a fantastic deal. Harden is a max player even at this stage

@@andreslancheros2863he’s not lol

@@LockedOnClippers if Paul George got a max and jerami grant and FVF , OG, etc then harden is a max player he’s just actually team friendly and wants to win

@@andreslancheros2863 I don't think PG should be but idk how you guys don't see what teams value in PG

Is he still with the team I thought he was Retiring

@@joeoliveriii632 Yeah he back with Clippers, wanted to run away from PG

Lebron is the greatest of all time

@@Lord_LeGOD_IS_BETTER nothing to do with this but, delusional suits you ;)

@@TheKennyGM you're just jealous because my king has more rings than your franchise.

It’s coming!

lol

he camps in the dunker, a lot. they're what I call "Lebron rebounds". I think he's a good rebounder for a guard but not the effort we needed the last 3 months of the season

@@LockedOnClippers fair criticism but (to praise him and Lebron for a sec) it definitely takes high BB IQ and great kinetic vision to know and see where to be off a missed shot that hits the rim or backboard at various angles and rotations

PG played more perimeter defense so was out of position for rebounds. Guys take a role and harden fit best in closer to the rim on defense. With harden you like to play him closer to the basket on defense on bigger or older players like SF, PF even. Not taking anything away from James, been watching him a long time. He needs those good defenders around him who can switch because getting screened alot or isolated on by smaller faster players was used by other teams to wear harden down. Batum is a perfect match with harden as are derrick jones jr and Kawi. Those three guys can switch 1-4. On offense harden will get the ball to these guys when they can do the most damage. Embiid(FG%), Maxey(FG%), Kyrie(50/40/90), KD(3 point%) and Kawi(FG%) all set some kind of career shooting highs playing with harden. IF they have the 3 and D guys to play around harden and kawi, that should solve the transition D problems and depth/rebounding issues. The clippers need more depth and a PG max contract would kill that ability to sign quality depth. And to be sure PG is 34, a 4 year deal @ 55M makes no sense for the clippers.

@@thomasblank2353this is facts nobody talks about how every star next to harden somehow shoots career high percentages. I wonder why…

@@renigate when you play with harden, you get great shot opportunities because he warps the defense when he creates shots.

Harden has never missed the playoffs and these signings look ok, guess we will be ok.

Harden maximizes talent more than PG, in todays NBA offense reigns supreme.

No serious baller thinks Clippers are a championship threat with Harden. His lack of defense is the Achilles heel in the playoffs regardless of offense even in Houston. And this ain't Houston.

Fair points but it’s a longer discussion to have

Lesser of 2 evils to let PG walk. Problem is that even next year Harden at 35mm/per is not exactly a prime trade chip. This year is gonna be just getting Kawhi back healthy. Would have preferred to sign DeMar over Harden (or additionally sign/trade for DeMar), but Clips front office ain't exactly proving to be basketball brilliant.

lmao are you a philly fan?

@LockedOnClippers of course I'm Philly all day

This would be fire.

Starting PF is the last piece.

I don't think you can move Norman Powell now given the loss of PG. The team needs all the scoring it can get and Norm is the most aggressive scorer of the reserves(also Bones but at way lower efficiency) I'm not sure where The Clippers stand now relative to the first and second aprons after the recent additions? Both limit trade activity but the second apron is far more restrictive. I think Terrance Mann has an advocate in Lawrence Frank so i don't expect him to be traded. I think The Clippers also want to give Kawhi and Harden(and Coach Lue) a legitimate chance at staying in the postseason chase, so i expect they will try to retain Norman Powell as well. The expiring contracts of PJ Tucker and Russell Westbrook are the ones they are probably trying to offload. However i don't believe they can combine salaries in a deal now? They might have to make a few one vs one trades. I could see Amir Coffey also going out. Jones Jr can provide some of the things he provided.

Van vleet making 40mil ok 😂😂😂

@@heigherheights21 right, over paid too

@@thomastalentedong rockets should’ve payed Harden

LeBron is a great player, I can't say the same about the mindset and the level of intelligence of his cheergirls, though! 🤣🤣

LeBron is a great player for sure, but I can't say the same about the intelligence of his fans

Lebum ain’t doing S H I T

Dude what? Do you see how much role players are getting paid like OG lmao? Harden is a 20 and 10 guy

You that much of a hater? Lol

He could have easily gotten 120-130 mil for 3 years from the clips. He did this to help the with CBA restrictions and build our depth. He wants to win

troll harder, we love it and it feeds the algo

@@EhhSenpai Plus there were rumors that LeBron was going to take less money to have James Harden come in for 2 years

a huge part of being a PG is vision to pick apar4et the defense. Harden>>>Mann there. Mann is not a PG. I think mann will do much better with a guy like derrick jones who will guard the best opposing wing. Man was so focused on defense, he was burning energy. Now they can rotate mann onto a top scorer when needed but derick jones will handle the wings. People often overlook what happens when your guy has to guard a shai or an anthony edwards all game. The celtics rotate 3 or even 4 different defenders onto a guy like luka or kyrie. Im looking forward to seeing mann take a step back to a scorer and get that 3pt % up where it was a coupole years ago, so he can space the floor. I especially like the derrick jones move so Kawi doesnt have to play the best wing too many minutes in the regular season.

@@thomasblank2353 I agree with you 💯 about TMann on the defensive assignments. However Jones is not a starting player on a championship team; he can spell T Mann off the bench which (to your point) allows Mann to have more energy to do other things throughout the game. Batum or a bigger body that DJJ is needed to play PF so Kawhi can get back to being the other perimeter defender and allow Zu & Batum rim protection. Batum I. Old, but he can teach Kobe Brown how to play that position. Kobe has basically the same body type as Nico. Now to my original point, Mann doesn’t need to be a point guard in the literal sense of the position. He needs to push the pace and get the team into the offense before they have a chance to double Kawhi (& Harden), which will do a few things; 1) increase the number of offensive possessions, which will 2) result in more points scored. 3) This also allows T Mann to be more aggressive on offense and create easier opportunities for players who run with him, like Kawhi, Norm, Big Zu & DJJ/Coffey. Before Russ was signed Mann was just fine as the “initiator “ of the offense, as I am suggesting. The Clips had something like an 11-4 record with him as the primary ball handler getting into their sets. As I said, Harden can still get 7 or 8 assist in the half court offense, he just won’t be walking the ball up the court and dribbling for 15 seconds into the clock. The Clippers are a much better team when the ball is moving and guys are not just standing around in the corner (Kawhi) while Harden “looks over the defense”. Thats a losing style of basketball, as the world witness in the Finals as Dallas got destroyed playing that exact style. Small ball & that bull💩”I am a system” has not resulted in any championships throughout Hardens career and I don’t see that style winning ever with him as THE ball dominant player, on any team.

As a measure of chips is pretty bad way to evaluate. The clippers were 24th in offense efficiency in 2021, 16th in' 2023(westbrook)_ and 4th in 2024 with harden running the offense. IN his first year with the Brooklyn the nets were 2nd in the NBA in passes per game with harden running the offense. But with the clippers that passing didnt happen, too much isolation not enough off ball movement. Too many gu7uys standing around waiting for the rock or waiting for kawi or PG to make a move. Harden brings better offense, that is proven over the years, but the isolation tendency of the clippers needs to change. The youth will help defensively, just have to get those young guys involved in the offense. Last year Hardens usage rate was 20%, PG was 26.6% and Kawi was 26.5. Before hardens arrival PG was at 30% usage for 2 years with the clippers. As PG's usage rate dropped from 33 to 26.6 over 3 years with the clippers his FG% went from 42% to 47%. I think mann will get a shot and his FG% of ~50% indicates he should get more shots as he is still very efficient. I think both westbrook(25.5% usage) and PG took shots away from mann, more so than harden