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It is crazy how his only attempts inside the 3pt line are free throws or runners. He is gimmicky but not yet been exposed by defenses in the Playoffs and Texas is a perfect place for him - Texans love gimmicks
It is crazy how his only attempts inside the 3pt line are free throws or runners. He is gimmicky but not yet been exposed by defenses in the Playoffs and Texas is a perfect place for him - Texans love gimmicks
Harden is like that guy in 2K who always abuses the same over and over again. Technically it's not cheating, but it's bull and everyone knows it.
haha, this is a great comparison tbh.
I remember in NBA 2k8 there was a layup glitch. Basically if you went for a layup at just the right time and your player had a good layup rating you would push everyone out of the way and basically never miss.
If you were good at the glitch you were pretty much unbeatable. When I did it online I would routinely drop 70+ with Steve Nash
Rockets' style of play should fail big time in the playoffs against a smart defensive team. Unless the Rockets, themselves, play great defense too, like they did against the Warriors last season.
Cheeser.haha, this is a great comparison tbh.
I remember in NBA 2k8 there was a layup glitch. Basically if you went for a layup at just the right time and your player had a good layup rating you would push everyone out of the way and basically never miss.
If you were good at the glitch you were pretty much unbeatable. When I did it online I would routinely drop 70+ with Steve Nash
I played NBA 2k8 and never noticed that many problems except that one almost unguardable move with Jerry Stackhouse.
NBA Live 07 was full of cheese. Most times players just crab dribbled all the way to the basket and dunked. The dev team turned the 3pt sliders way down that year so everyone had to shoot twos for the most part. Oh and then the lagging thing... there was a specific button combo you could press to lag the other guy's system when they had the ball. Sooooooo glitchy. I remember a guy from Turkey who would drop 80 with Devean George and then foul out and I'd beat him cause he wouldn't know what to do.
of a player i think its unfair not to give him that.
but he does exploit a flaw in how the modern game is reffed and played.
Like i argued last year when he won MVP ... I dont blame him, ultumately, that's on the league and the refs.
But my guess, is league loves all the scoring he does ...
I only blame Harden for choking when he doesnt get his FT calls ...
Also, if I was a Rox fan ... I almost wouldnt want HArden to get regular season freebies if he is NOT going to get same call come playoffs.
Its almost as if refs are setting him up for a choke.
He's got 2 or 3 moves that are absolutely lethal and unstoppable
I don't think you can get to the finals on 2 or 3 move thou
Harden would dominate any era, 3 point era or not. People who deny his greatness are taking his lack of entertainment for lack of skill.
i mean if they're unstoppable i dont see why not
It's why they go 0-27 from 3 in the playoffs, because A) they are relegated to shooting them since the lane closes and B) James Harden is a choke artist who plays for regular season accolades and hits the clubs after the RS.
This guy was destroyed at home in a critical series ending playoff game by the bench of his opponent. You know once he sits on the floor spread eagle he's given up. That happens very quickly in the playoffs, right after CP3's pussy gets hurt.
He is entertaining and highly skilled when he doesn't flop when he is cooking he doesn't even need the freebie Fts
And this is why I laugh when they say 'MVP is a RS award' as if we're supposed to wipe away the -stains of his gimmick being exposed in the postseason. The fact they are entertaining giving him another MVP over Giannis after what we've seen every May is....astounding
That rant was gay and not to be taken serious as most sportsball announcers are brainlets.
The philosophy boils down to:
a) everyone has the same set of rules
b) Harden plays/benefits by the rules moreso than anyone else
So what is there to complain about? The guy's not cheating, so you're basically complaining because it's not sexy enough or because your team isn't good enough to stop him
NBA refs have special rules for
1) James Harden
2) Golden State Warriors
The carp Harden pulls to get calls would never fly in any other era. And the Warriors are allowed to at and show up the refs without repercussion. Beyond annoying, but I guess it sells tickets to the rubes.
He's a flopping got who makes every game he plays in unwatchable and makes it impossible to play defense against him because of said flopping. Nobody else gets the bull calls that he gets on every possession. What isn't there to complain about?
Where was his greatness in game 6 of the conference finals when his team needed him the most because Chris Paul had his routine playoff ending injury? Where was his greatness in game 7 when his team missed 27 consecutive 3s?
Yeah, no worry about him choking in the playoffs this year.Can’t wait for people to about Luka the same way
But Mr Celebate is right. It's Royce Gracie when the gi was allowed in the ring, when he would choke out everyone with his gi. Once they took that away he was just a badass but not nearly as immortal. Still, he used what he had at his disposal and that worked for him. Imagine if every player with obvious talent used it to win instead of using it to show off or get stats. Look at Westbrook, he can get to the rim at will but he wants to shoot long contested jumpers and fight for rebounds because he's a stat . Imagine if AD had the wherewithal to develop an up and under move or some flop under the rim or just short of it, or if Kawhi Leonard tried using his other hand to wipe his own ass.
Harden would have struggled with hand checking and would have been an easy post up considering he doesn't play defense.
Rookie wall. He'll be more energized next season though.
disagree on the "bull calls" tbh. It's obvious he has a good feel on how defenders are positioned, and when they're vulnerable to be in a fouling position. Is it the most entertaining brand of basketball? No, but there's nothing illegal about it. Same thing when guys pump fake on jump shots then throw their body into the defender when they're in the air. Harden does the same thing, but is really good at it and has found about ten other ways to accomplish the same thing. I definitely agree that he wouldn't be nearly as good playing in the 90's for obvious reasons
There's no way you can just credit it to "flopping" considering flopping has been going on for almost 20 years now, yet few players have been this productive. Unless you're re ed enough to believe that the NBA just singled him out randomly for success and decided to award him an outrageous number of calls a game over anybody else just because.
This. He would adapt to any era and find the inefficiencies needed to exploit.
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