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Total number of CAREER games with at least 42 points, 9 assists, 7 rebounds and 7 made 3-pointers:
Kobe: 1
LeBron: 1
KD: zero
Steph: zero
MJ: zero
Over the Rockets last five games, James Harden is averaging:
42.8 points
9.4 assists
7.4 rebounds
7.4 made 3-pointers
Averaging.
If you guard him, they call a foul too.
Or any playoff year...
What does that even mean? What superstars don’t have big egos, lay alone NBA superstars.
Harden has been awesome this year.
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Are still not as big as his ego.
What does that even mean? What superstars don’t have big egos, lay alone NBA superstars.
Harden has been awesome this year.
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Are still not as big as his ego.
What does that even mean? What superstars don’t have big egos, lay alone NBA superstars.
Harden has been awesome this year.
Did you not see his quote after the game. I guess its the new day of players who feed their ego... but for me Maybe I am still old school. The great ones dont talk about themselves like this...
"[People] talk too much about my fouls and not actually the greatness of what I'm doing out there on the court. That's what we need to focus on."
OKC: 41 pts 7 assts 6 rebs 5 threes
BOS: 45 pts 6 assts 2 rebs 9 threes
NOP: 41 pts 6 assts 9 rebs 7 threes
MEM: 43 pts 13 assts 10 rebs 6 threes
GSW: 44 pts 15 assts 10 rebs 10 threes
I can't speak for the rest of Harden's career, but technically he only crossed that (arbitrary) threshold once over the last 5 games. His averages are still ridiculous, just the methodology used to try and amplify them is absurd.
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I think a lot of what he (and other players do) regarding step-backs, side-steps, and "gathering" the ball should be considered traveling. But by the way the NBA legislates and officiates the rules, they are not traveling. And credit to Harden for mastering how to operate within the rules to maximum effect. Every now and then, he legitimately travels and sometimes he gets called for it (like other players). But more often than not, he uses exceptional technique (that I'm sure he spent countless hours perfecting) to create as much space as possible.
With that all said, more often than not I dislike watching him play. Like I said, I don't like that some of those moves are not considered traveling (I feel that way at times about what Giannis does with his gathering of the ball), and I hate the idea of driving to the basket with the objective of drawing a foul rather than it being a byproduct of trying to score (which Harden does more often than any other player in the league).
It's like watching Georgia Tech run the triple option in football every single play. I dislike watching it, but it can be very effective.
He just overtook Giannis in the MVP race imo.
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You can’t guard Harden even when double teamed.
If you guard him, they call a foul too.
I hate the foul think as much as anyone, especially against the Warriors who are generally incapable of getting away with even the slightest amount of contact and even, in many cases, no contact at all.
But I have to give credit where it's due: he is a genuinely frightening player right now. That final 3 was ballsy as fuck.
It's kind of always been that way, there just used to be less internet and ESPN around to make people indignant.
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sure but again, who isn’t? Lebron says he’s the Goat, Curry taunts crowds, etc. It’s today’s nba.
It's kind of always been that way, there just used to be less internet and ESPN around to make people indignant.
Give me the Tim Duncans of the world. Hakeem. Bird/Magic. Even to an extent MJ - who I cant recall talking like this to the media.
You guessed it. Jimmy the coach killer Butler!!!!!
dribble, dribble, dribble...
Three pointer or drive to the basket.
Harden is certainly your guy.
dribble, dribble, dribble...
Three pointer or drive to the basket.
Harden is certainly your guy.
Nothing better than whistles every other drive!
Chicks dig the...free throw!
Love all these players and and finally not jealous thst my team doesn’t have something like this as I am a sixers fan.
I may be in the minority but I was hoping the rockets would be amazing this year to provide some competition for the warriors.
Same for OKC, celtics, my sixers.
The focus on how much he's fouled is lame. He's baiting defenders into fouling. Easier said than done, but use someone with length who can stay in front of him and doesn't need to get on top of him to intefer with his shot.
Make him shoot the mid range more and live with those percentages.
And when he travels every possession.
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sure but again, who isn’t? Lebron says he’s the Goat, Curry taunts crowds, etc. It’s today’s nba.
It's kind of always been that way, there just used to be less internet and ESPN around to make people indignant.
Give me the Tim Duncans of the world. Hakeem. Bird/Magic. Even to an extent MJ - who I cant recall talking like this to the media.
Bird was a notorious trash talker who would stroll by the opposing bench and ridicule his opponents.
Magic did the kind of thing you'd eviscerate Jimmy Butler for.
There's a viral video of Jordan making the rounds where he's not exactly humble when talking about his abilities and legacy.
Still that stat is not what it seems: In those last 5 games, Harden averaged those numbers but only had 1 game where he hit the same metric (not saying he hasn't in the past either, he certainly might have)
No big deal, but just somewhat random and not exactly accurate. At first I assumed it meant he did it 5 times. But that's not the case. Only did it last game vs GSW
Onstage, Jordan adroitly, and unnecessarily, noted Krause wasn't invited before going on a diatribe about how organizations don't win championships, great players like him do -- a reversal of a much-traveled portion of a longer, more balanced quote credited to Krause. Jordan was right, of course, but why bring that up on the stage in front of basketball's upper echelon? Because Jordan is the ultimate alpha male and this was his alpha male moment. He doesn't get those anymore, not in public. This was it for him.
Iirc when he was retired, he was in a gym where Russell was balling. BR made a comment like 'lucky you don't have kicks b/c I could guard you.' And the HS coach who cut him, I heard he even bought the guy tickets then calls him out? Or some mediocre player that not only can't hold his jock but in who's face he made the championship winning / Bulls career ending GWer? A near unanimous GOAT at his HOF speech?
Also check out the comps to Stockton & Robinson's. They gushed over their children / fam / friends while MJ says he feels sorry for his kids having to live in his shadow. All I can say is I might even be worse if I thought I was GOAT, but either way that ain't humble
IMO that generation was lucky media was not as pervasive. IMO Phil Jackson showed exactly that as a Knick exec. For all his smarts and ego management, he looked like an fn idiot on social media. I think our view of MJ would be very different in much the same way
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