CrushAlot wrote:

yellowboy90 wrote:I like Terrence Jones. He is on my list of future RFAs that the knicks will miss out on because of the expected Cap. Meyers Leonard and Harrison Barnes is also on that list.

If only the knicks could have bought low on Leonard, Ilyasova, nad Middleton this summer like I wanted.

YB for GM? Move out Mills.

Jones has looked great. I watched the rockets a lot more when Lin was there. I didn't realize how good Jones is. Agree about Mills.

He is kind of like Houston's version of Draymond Green. He needs to stay healthy and continue improving his shot and passing. Like Barnes all that high school potential and promise is starting to show.

dk7th wrote:

holfresh wrote:

dk7th wrote:

holfresh wrote:Harden is 4-11fg and 1-5 from three but people here will tell it it's an efficient night and he is doing great..

his team is winning and he is shooting at a 60%TS clip, while dishing out 10 assists. you need to accept the fact that drawing fouls is an elite skill because it involves an arsenal of head and ball fakes and changes of speed that keeps a defender guessing. in the playoffs drawing fouls is even more crucial, along with shot selection. getting to the line is part of the tightening up of a player's game that you want to see.

we won't know until tomorrow what the ratio of his usage to assist rate is but the likelihood is that it will be 1:1 or perhaps .80:1. he hurt his team last year when this ratio veered wildly from his regular-season ratio.

I'm sure you enjoyed the defense he has been playing tonight as well....

a win is a win

Except when the team is the Knicks and they are marching towards a 54 win season...

holfresh wrote:

dk7th wrote:

holfresh wrote:

dk7th wrote:

holfresh wrote:Harden is 4-11fg and 1-5 from three but people here will tell it it's an efficient night and he is doing great..

his team is winning and he is shooting at a 60%TS clip, while dishing out 10 assists. you need to accept the fact that drawing fouls is an elite skill because it involves an arsenal of head and ball fakes and changes of speed that keeps a defender guessing. in the playoffs drawing fouls is even more crucial, along with shot selection. getting to the line is part of the tightening up of a player's game that you want to see.

we won't know until tomorrow what the ratio of his usage to assist rate is but the likelihood is that it will be 1:1 or perhaps .80:1. he hurt his team last year when this ratio veered wildly from his regular-season ratio.

I'm sure you enjoyed the defense he has been playing tonight as well....

a win is a win

Except when the team is the Knicks and they are matching towards a 54 win season...

dk7th wrote:

holfresh wrote:

dk7th wrote:

holfresh wrote:Harden is 4-11fg and 1-5 from three but people here will tell it it's an efficient night and he is doing great..

his team is winning and he is shooting at a 60%TS clip, while dishing out 10 assists. you need to accept the fact that drawing fouls is an elite skill because it involves an arsenal of head and ball fakes and changes of speed that keeps a defender guessing. in the playoffs drawing fouls is even more crucial, along with shot selection. getting to the line is part of the tightening up of a player's game that you want to see.

we won't know until tomorrow what the ratio of his usage to assist rate is but the likelihood is that it will be 1:1 or perhaps .80:1. he hurt his team last year when this ratio veered wildly from his regular-season ratio.

I'm sure you enjoyed the defense he has been playing tonight as well....

and by the way, among starting shooting guards harden ranks about 6th or 7th in defensive real plus/minus behind middleton, matthews, butler, korver, beal, and maclemore.

Hilarious....Did you see the play where he ran out of the way on Rondo's layup..Hubie was classic..He said Harden, ah come on...Does he get a negative 1 for that??

holfresh wrote:Dk7..Here are 7 shooting guards who are better defenders than Harden using my eye test...Tony Allen, Dwayne Wade, Shumpert, JR Smith, Thabo Sefolosha, Klay Thompson, Avery Bradley...

markvmc wrote:

CrushAlot wrote:

holfresh wrote:Dk7..Here are 7 shooting guards who are better defenders than Harden using my eye test...Tony Allen, Dwayne Wade, Shumpert, JR Smith, Thabo Sefolosha, Klay Thompson, Avery Bradley...

Dk uses the eye test now as Melo is efficient by nba standards for numbers. So it will be interesting to see what his eagle eyes report back about this comparison. First guy that watches ball at all that I know of that said he was a fan of Jon Barry's commentating while watching a game.

Wait..what...Melo is efficient by which numbers?

stopstandthere wrote:

CrushAlot wrote:

TPercy wrote:Lets go Wizards!

I don't think I can root for a Paul Pierce team. I used to watch the Nets whenever the Knicks weren't on but once Pierce went there I stopped watching and haven't gone back.

I share the same. Are you sure TP?

CrushAlot wrote:

holfresh wrote:Dk7..Here are 7 shooting guards who are better defenders than Harden using my eye test...Tony Allen, Dwayne Wade, Shumpert, JR Smith, Thabo Sefolosha, Klay Thompson, Avery Bradley...

Dk uses the eye test now as Melo is efficient by nba standards for numbers. So it will be interesting to see what his eagle eyes report back about this comparison. First guy that watches ball at all that I know of that said he was a fan of Jon Barry's commentating while watching a game.

listen president camacho, you cannot be serious unless you are being more obtuse than ever. study the materials i provided, or if you can't digest the way i put things then look at bonn1997's contributions.

Bonn1997 wrote:Flu Tyson is gone. 11 pts, 18 rbss. That Rondo trade killed the Mavs though.
Harden showed how important versatility is on offense. Even when his shot isn't falling, he scored in the 20s and had double digit assists. Holfresh, do you think they would have won the game without him last night or are you just nit-picking?

it isn't nitpicking it's remaining in a cave thinking the firelight is the sunlight. he pooh-poohs the ability to draw fouls when it comes to scoring, because for holfresh it is always a ref-enabled aspect of the game. players who can draw fouls like pierce, harden, gallinari, durant, are phonies because drawing fouls implies flopping. the stubbornness is amusing. i would understand if the nba were played at west 4th but it isn't.