Better.....
And I'm a Harden fan appreciate everything he did for home team this year
But he straight wet the bed tonight
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Better.....
And I'm a Harden fan appreciate everything he did for home team this year
But he straight wet the bed tonight
Oh hell no on Rondo. Him and Harden on the same squad would be a train wreck. I like Knight or Ty Lawson paired up with Harden but it might be a stretch to get those cats.
Now if Morey can get anyone of those 4's you mentioned, I would have no problem with the Rockets parting ways with both Dmo & Jones
Cuz u gotta think, we got Capella still on a rookie deal. He played solid this year in the playoffs and should improve.
So you got him, Smith and one of the 3 possible PF's I mentioned IF we get lucky.
I'll take whoever to run PG at that time. If u throw either of those guys on the wing (love, LMA, Millsap) while running the pick n roll with harden/Howard, who the fuck do you guard?
I actually heard today that LA was seriously considering Russell... if they do take him, my soul will be hurt by that shit for real! Shit, my Sixers may talk to the Knicks about trading our pick to them for 4 and something else if that happens. These fools are sold on Noel so unless it's Towns they don't want Okafor...
I see what you're saying and I can roll with that if we get one of those big time power forwards. My only thing is that even if we retain Beverly, we still lack depth at the pg position so the Rockets need to draft a pg that has play making potential. Also, Beverly is injury prone and that's a big concern moving forward.
It's a deep draft and we got the 16 pick from new Orleans
If scared of wolf don't go in woods...
A Ty Lawson would look great in a rockets uniform, but the issue would be if he could co-exist with Harden. If Harden could adjust his game a little bit to accommodate Lawsons skillset, that back court would damn near be unguardable...
I actually heard today that LA was seriously considering Russell... if they do take him, my soul will be hurt by that shit for real! Shit, my Sixers may talk to the Knicks about trading our pick to them for 4 and something else if that happens. These fools are sold on Noel so unless it's Towns they don't want Okafor...
No way the Lakers take Russell. They have a promising point guard who got better by the end of the season. They have to take a franchise potential big man in Towns or Okafor.
I feel you, thought it was a smoke screen myself but until the pick is made I'm buggin'... Stranger things have happened... Byron Scott called youngin' by name...
It's actually the 18th pick and mock drafts have us picking either Tyus Jones or Jerian Grant. I would be cool with either one of them, they have potential.
Grant is more athletic than Jones, and his length would fit well with the current rockets roster. Only thing is, is he a true PG though? Jones definitely is, just not sure he can match up with the PGs in the league, especially out west...
Really disappointed none of the warrior players even mentioned Mark Jackson or what he did for them or the team.
Draymond Green went over and gave him a hug after the game....
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"don't put it past the ownership to have a gag order. pause."
I know you're not talking right now. You need to stay in your lane young man.
The only reason a pause was put there is because of the reason the ownership fired Mark Jackson in the first place, which in turn could be interpreted in some kind of way by someone with all of the facts instead of a 2-bit pretend architect randomly littering threads with nonsense.
I quoted and responded to someone who i know is intelligent and knows all the facts as a joke.
Put the smedium back on...that's your place
I'm no pretend architect. I import and export latex and latex related products and I am damn proud of it.
Go to that Hamptons house and chill out
Harden is more of a combo guard. Wouldn't work. He's need another combo type guard who he can share duties with him.
Maybe that's telling you something
Better.....
And I'm a Harden fan appreciate everything he did for home team this year
But he straight wet the bed tonight
Harden, Rockets finally run out of fuel
POSTED: May 28, 2015 3:01 AM ET
BY Fran Blinebury
OAKLAND, Calif. - There will be plenty of other seasons, other playoffs, other chances at this level.
James Harden can hope.
The truth is the stars don't always line up and there are no laws of the basketball universe that say you get to keep coming back until you get it right. That's what makes the Rockets' 104-90 loss that bounced them out of the Western Conference finals harder to swallow than a cat fur omelet.
Warriors drop Rockets to take series.
On a night when his team needed him to be fiery spectacular against the buzzsaw that is the Warriors, Harden went up in a ball of flames. He scored 14 points, exactly half of his playoff average coming into the game. He shot 2-for-11 from the field and did not make a bucket after the middle of the second quarter. One of the NBA's great scoring machines, threw a rod. One of the game's most creative offensive performers couldn't hear the music. One of those guys who usually can find the hoop like a fighter jet pilot with a radar lock on his target was lost. His two baskets were a two-foot layup and a dunk.
The only history Harden made was an all-time playoff record 13 turnovers.
The Rockets talk postgame after Game 5.
"Unacceptable," Harden said.
Difficult and almost incomprehensible to watch. By the end, Harden looked worn down, worn away, worn out by the time he gave the ball one final hard dribble as the horn sounded, then turned to embrace his Team USA running mate Klay Thompson at the Warriors' bench as confetti rained.
"I'm all right," Harden said. "I'm 25 years old. I'm all right."
This is his sixth professional season and his third since making the move to Houston because he wanted this leadership role, this burden. It's a tough gig, especially the way the Rockets are constructed, where he has to carry so much of the load. While nobody here is now disputing Stephen Curry's winning of the MVP award, the truth is that Curry has more help around him than Harden. Far more.
He had to be the rudder on the ship in a season when center Dwight Howard missed exactly half of the 82 game schedule due to knee problems, and starting power forward Terrence Jones was sidelined for months with a career-threatening nerve injury to his foot.
Harden pushed and prodded and pulled and dragged the Rockets to 56 wins and a doggedly determined No. 2 seed in the merciless Western Conference.
But all that anyone ever remembers through the long summer is the ending. Harden has that failure to get off a shot in the last seconds of Game 2. He has that 3-for-16 disappearing act when the Rockets were embarrassed in Game 3 at home by 35 points. Now he has this ugliest of all meltdowns in the finale when he could never get his game going and continually coughed up the basketball.
"It's tough," Harden said when asked what he'll take away. "Just valuing possessions in the postseason. The first two games you take away some of those possessions we gave away and it's a different series. So, just valuing the ball a lot more, especially if I'm going to be doing a lot of ball handling. I mean, not give away easy baskets. Tonight was another case for myself. Thirteen turnovers is unacceptable."
There are times when the guy who usually looks like the coolest one in any room as soon as he walks through the door, seems to get too caught up in the moment, maybe lets the emotions get the better of him and tries to do too much behind that beard. You can watch him practically run himself in the ground trying to beat a defender and lose the handle.
"James had 13 turnovers, a lot of them off the dribble," said Rockets coach Kevin McHale.
Rather than take control of the situation by taking the aggression and the game to the opponent, Harden can take himself right out as the deciding factor by getting his engine revving far too fast.
The greatest of the great ones always talk about the fury and the flash of the tensest, high-stakes games seeming to slow for them and that happens for Harden during the regular season. It happens when he poured in 45 points in Game 4 when the Rockets were down 0-3 and beginning the battle for their survival. Then he hit the floor for Game 5 didn't know which switch to flip or when, confused between getting his teammates involved or getting in gear himself.
"I think he turned down a few shots that he probably could have had in different areas," McHale said. "I mean, look, James didn't play well, but as I've said all year long, we don't win the division, don't win 56 games, we don't have home court, we don't beat the Clippers in Game 7 if it wasn't for James.
"He had a tough go tonight. There's nothing else you can really say about it, man. Sometimes you go out there and you're trying your best and things just don't work out."
It is Harden, younger and with much more of his career in front of him, who has to be the leader of this team. Not just by always scoring the most points, but being in control and command. By learning and growing.
After 11 NBA seasons and with his 30th birthday approaching, Howard pretty much is what he is. Neither his game or his loopy personality are going to change. He'll play hard. He'll occasionally play dumb and did again on Wednesday night, picking up a technical foul that could have had him suspended for a Game 6 if the Rockets had won.
But, since struggling in his only trip to The Finals in 2012 against Miami as the third wheel with the Thunder, the playoffs have been bumpy for Harden. He didn't shoot the ball or play particularly well the two previous seasons in first round losses to Oklahoma City and Portland. This was progress, but another empty finish.
"Basically, we'll be all right," he said. "Just another step for us. Western Conference finals. We've got to come back a lot better, a lot stronger physically and mentally."
This is the job, the spot, the burden James Harden wanted. Leadership has its privileges and its obligations.
This^^^^^^^
That's why I said I really hope Bron have a ownership stake in that team... That cac owe Bron everything
One more thing about Mark Jackson. This Oh Poor Mark and the Warriors owe Mark and this is Marks team is bullshit. Mark coached the team, Mark was paid well for coaching the team, Mark while being a great coach, had his issues... being stubborn, imposing his religious beliefs on his team, etc. and frankly, while there is this sympathy train for him, no way in hell do you disrespect your current coach, whose regime has gotten you this far, in possibly the biggest moment in franchise history, by giving shine to an ex-coach. That's like a wife giving a toast to her ex at her wedding reception. Shit makes no sense...
The Warriors owe Mark nothing. This is Steve Kerr's moment and the teams moment, not Mark's. The fact that none of the players really have said anything COULD be telling about the true nature of the relationship with the players and their former coach.
Mark showed a lot of class, a hell of a lot of professionalism to call games for a team that he clearly has emotional ties to, and I have gained a lot of respect for him for that, more than anything he's done as a player or a coach, but this the Warriors should do more for him stuff is ridiculous...
And as I've said before, I absolutely LOVE Mark Jackson, went to college with him, played pickup ball with him, been in his space (30 years ago but still) so this is not personal.
He wasn't the GM, Director of Player Personnel, Head Scout, none of that during his time there, so this 'This was HIS team' stuff is incorrect...
He will land on his feet one day real soon... GS owes him absolutely nothing...
The Warriors owe Mark nothing. This is Steve Kerr's moment and the teams moment, not Mark's. The fact that none of the players really have said anything COULD be telling about the true nature of the relationship with the players and their former coach.
Mark showed a lot of class, a hell of a lot of professionalism to call games for a team that he clearly has emotional ties to, and I have gained a lot of respect for him for that, more than anything he's done as a player or a coach, but this the Warriors should do more for him stuff is ridiculous...
And as I've said before, I absolutely LOVE Mark Jackson, went to college with him, played pickup ball with him, been in his space (30 years ago but still) so this is not personal.
He wasn't the GM, Director of Player Personnel, Head Scout, none of that during his time there, so this 'This was HIS team' stuff is incorrect...
He will land on his feet one day real soon... GS owes him absolutely nothing...
One more thing about Mark Jackson. This Oh Poor Mark and the Warriors owe Mark and this is Marks team is bullshit. Mark coached the team, Mark was paid well for coaching the team, Mark while being a great coach, had his issues... being stubborn, imposing his religious beliefs on his team, etc. and frankly, while there is this sympathy train for him, no way in hell do you disrespect your current coach, whose regime has gotten you this far, in possibly the biggest moment in franchise history, by giving shine to an ex-coach. That's like a wife giving a toast to her ex at her wedding reception. Shit makes no sense...
The Warriors owe Mark nothing. This is Steve Kerr's moment and the teams moment, not Mark's. The fact that none of the players really have said anything COULD be telling about the true nature of the relationship with the players and their former coach.
Mark showed a lot of class, a hell of a lot of professionalism to call games for a team that he clearly has emotional ties to, and I have gained a lot of respect for him for that, more than anything he's done as a player or a coach, but this the Warriors should do more for him stuff is ridiculous...
And as I've said before, I absolutely LOVE Mark Jackson, went to college with him, played pickup ball with him, been in his space (30 years ago but still) so this is not personal.
He wasn't the GM, Director of Player Personnel, Head Scout, none of that during his time there, so this 'This was HIS team' stuff is incorrect...
He will land on his feet one day real soon... GS owes him absolutely nothing...
For real?
For real?
I think that guy is a functioning retard...
That's just a ignorant fuckin rant.
Explain why it's ignorant, because you don't agree with it? When a person takes that position, it normally shows more ignorants on their part...
So, please, outside of the fact you don't agree with my point of view, explain how my post is 'ignorant' AND how my point of view defines me as functionally 'retarded'
OAKLAND -- Even if the injured LeBron James were playing Friday night when the Cleveland Cavaliers come to town, it's unlikely he'd create the buzz that Mark Jackson will in his first appearance at Oracle Arena since being fired last May.
Jackson is part of the broadcast team for ESPN's national telecast of Golden State's game against the Cavs, sitting right across the court from co-owner Joe Lacob, the man who fired him. It promises to be awkward for team management, coach Steve Kerr and perhaps Jackson himself. But not for many Warriors players, who are excited and anticipate an emotional return.
Stephen Curry, who was vocal in his opposition to Jackson's firing, acknowledged that it will be a bit weird having his former coach at courtside, on the opposite side from the Warriors' bench at a broadcasters table.
"It will feel strange at the beginning, but then everybody will get back to doing their job," Curry said. "I'm sure he's happy to be covering basketball, commentating, and is at peace with where he's at. I'm sure the fans will give him a great reception, which he deserves for the work he did here. I hope that happens. Then we'll get to the business of playing basketball like usual.
"I can't wait to give him a big hug," guard Klay Thompson said. "It'll be strange not hearing him speak, because I love hearing him commentate. But it'll be cool to see him. He's a great friend and a great mentor to me. We absolutely would not be where we are now without him."
What was yall saying about the players not liking him again???????
Jackson is part of the broadcast team for ESPN's national telecast of Golden State's game against the Cavs, sitting right across the court from co-owner Joe Lacob, the man who fired him. It promises to be awkward for team management, coach Steve Kerr and perhaps Jackson himself. But not for many Warriors players, who are excited and anticipate an emotional return.
Stephen Curry, who was vocal in his opposition to Jackson's firing, acknowledged that it will be a bit weird having his former coach at courtside, on the opposite side from the Warriors' bench at a broadcasters table.
"It will feel strange at the beginning, but then everybody will get back to doing their job," Curry said. "I'm sure he's happy to be covering basketball, commentating, and is at peace with where he's at. I'm sure the fans will give him a great reception, which he deserves for the work he did here. I hope that happens. Then we'll get to the business of playing basketball like usual.
"I can't wait to give him a big hug," guard Klay Thompson said. "It'll be strange not hearing him speak, because I love hearing him commentate. But it'll be cool to see him. He's a great friend and a great mentor to me. We absolutely would not be where we are now without him."
What was yall saying about the players not liking him again???????
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