I believe Ime's cheating scandal made him image conscious. So he kept out the "party man" influence, so it doesn't clash with restoring his own respectability. Otherwise, if Ime was in Houston instead of Boston but never caught cheating, I don't think Ime objects to Harden on his play style. Even more if Ime had Harden, they might both be " looking the other way" in their off-courts lives (while sticking some side shawties LoL, I mean --), they would understand the lifestyle that comes with the NBA. Like with Jalen Green
I am not sure we could afford both KD and Harden though. If we got rid of KD and had Harden, we'd be about the same level as Cleveland now, maybe a little worse. Harden taking us to the second round would be no different from if KD takes us past Lakers this year.
Udoka is like Wemby always rejecting Harden at the Hoop. Harden is healthier than Durant in the Playoffs though, that said.
J-Dub injured his hamstring last night Wemby is an injury waiting to happen Lakers are missing Luka and Reaves it’s a shame the Rockets are out here just punting seasons and not trying to address needs…as we are seeing, anything can happen in the postseason
.Exactly. We doubled down on stupid with FVV because Ime can only coach one way with FVV as his "governor" for no pace iso overrebounding. That's not an offense. I would rather leave the offense to people who know how to run it and Harden would not have done what Ime wanted. Hell, Ime cannot even realize that he needs Reed to be the PG. Durant has 9TOs because he is the offense instead of the executor. Sengun has regressed because he got it in his head he was Magic instead of a PnR finisher. We quadrupled down on dumb with a dumb coach and a dumb GM. They will replay the same stupid **** this offseason to save their ass when it would be better to dump them. The coach has got to go but because of his contract he won't. The whole NBA is laughing at us, Ime, and Stone and they should. I hope we get swept if nothing other than to put a nail in the FO's coffin. This team as constructed can beat the Lakers, even with FVV and Adams missing. This team should have beat the Warriors last year. We have two years of proof if we play this way it looks good for a regular season record but means nothing in the playoffs.
if we had Harden right now, Lakers wouldn’t even be able to keep Luke Kennard on the floor…Harden would hunt that mismatch relentlessly seems like we basically run zero PnR because we have no one who can do it, but Harden-Sengun PnR would annihilate Ayton KD would finally be off-ball and be a play finisher Reed Sheppard would actually have someone to learn from he’d mask a lot of Ime’s current ineptitude like he did with McHale
