Not gonna lie, I was pissed when we made that trade, and then the second part of last season, I started to see what my Hawks were seeing. Like you said, a win-win for both teams.
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Did u catch any one trey young college games, if so what was ur thoughts
Trae Young wishes he could be on a team as good as the Warriors have been in recent years.. Until that happens he ain’t going to catch that same energy.
Bron leading the league in assists by a wide margin. You seeing this @HotNixon36 ? A player in year 17 aint supposed to be looking like prime Magic with athleticism.The difference between him and other celebrated volume shooters is Bron can pass too.
First season he has ever lead the league in assists. 34 or 35 is not that old, Jordan was a League MVP, Finals MVP, and League, leading scorer, and 1st team all defensive player at that age.
He is playing well, but not MVP level. The hype machine does not work on me, I know who he is.
His peak assist numbers are Magic's career averages. Lebron is just doing what he supposed to do, take a back seat to the best player on the team.
I am more impressed with Harden's scoring average margin over the other players.
Jordan played on the most talented team of the 90s and never came close to leading the league in assists. He didnt even lead the Bulls. Court vision and passing were one of MJs weaknesses. And as far as minutes played Bron is very old. Older than MJ ever was on the court. He didnt get this far.
It's the same trajectory lol
Everyone loved it when they were losing
Then it changed and they hated it lol
Trae is nutmegging ppl every night and then hitting the j lol
Why would a shooting guard, during a time when players actually mastered a single position, be focusing on leading the league in assists? Lebron only averages 1 assist more than Jordan for his career (including bullshit Wizard years), and Jordan was not even a primary ball handler, he did everything playing off the ball.
Jordan's goal was to outscore every player and have his team have the highest score on the scoreboard, and he did. He only played with 1 All star his whole Bulls career, where is all this talent you are talking about?
Harden is averaging 38 a game with 8.5 assists, working on his 3rd straight scoring title, and your ass is talking about Lebron, lol. Lebron dick riders need to let that shit go, enjoy the "new" talent.
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Jordan wasnt a primary ball handler because he couldnt see the court better than Pippen and his handle was suspect. He stayed carrying and palming the ball. And you contradicted yourself. Harden is a shooting guard that actually has vision and led the league in assists before. You even posted his current statline which is better all around than any of MJs.
Even Wilt as a Center led the league in assists. One dimensional scoring was great in the 90s but today we just know too much about the game to be impressed by it. I remember cats being excited MJ could average 19 a game his 14th and 15th season. 
Harden averaging 39/8/6 and gets no love...
That dude should have 3 MVP trophies.
Dude is gonna fuck around and average 40 this season and people will a still overlook the historic path he's on.
It would be one thing if he was putting up these numbers just to stat pad on a lottery team but each year they're a contender in the West.
He's doing it out of necessity too. Last year when he went off, starters were injured left and right during the season. This year, Gordon, Capela & House are out & he turns into arcade mode again getting W's.
Truth be told, just because they have Westbrook they're not a deep team. The bench is like the worst scoring bench in the league so they have to rely on him, we all know Westbrook can't be trusted.
It's all good man
He's going to be great.
Love the way he shitted on Jamal Murray and the Nuggets.
Of that I had NO DOUBT
Jordan wasnt a primary ball handler because he couldnt see the court better than Pippen and his handle was suspect. He stayed carrying and palming the ball. And you contradicted yourself. Harden is a shooting guard that actually has vision and led the league in assists before. You even posted his current statline which is better all around than any of MJs.
Do you realize how old Jordan was in his 14th and 15th season? How many seasons he sat out before his 14th and 15th season?
Now, you are saying Harden is better player than Jordan? with 2 scoring titles, 1 League MVP, and 0 Finals MVPs?
With the corny, laugh behind every comment?
Nigga Please
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Bro Jordan in no season was top 5 in assists. He led his team in assists 3 times. Mikey couldnt see out there bro. I never said Harden is better than MJ but he's a waaaaay better passer.
Imagine if Jordan had LeBron's athleticism and durability? He wouldve played a lot longer. 15 seasons just isnt a long time.
Just because you have more assists, it does not make you a better passer, sometimes it just means you focused more on getting assists. It takes 2 players to complete an assist.
Larry Bird and Jordan played "off the ball", held the ball much less than Harden, and their career average assists per season are on par with Harden.
Jordan and Harden do not even play the same position, bruh. Harden always has the ball in his hands, he is playing pg.
Bird and Jordan, are better passers than Harden, especially in big games. Jason Williams only averaged 5.9 assists per game for career, Pistol Pete only 5.4 assists for career, both are better dribblers and passers than Harden. You can get assists without being a elite passer, based on volume and who you are playing with, and how much you have the ball.
Yes, I do agree, Harden distributes well, but he is not an elite passer. He does get his assists.
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Harden averaging 39/8/6 and gets no love...
That dude should have 3 MVP trophies.
Well we couldn’t over look what Brodie did with them triple doubles...
But I’m with you and anyone else who’s willingly to state the Beard man is a fucking problem.
Actually I like him and Bron ahead of the Greek Freak.
Damn bro, why lol
You know murray use to do the most. About time he gets a dose of his own bull.
I'm not talking about BGOL. How about a noteworthy percentage of NBA players? (I think that should have been clear based on my outlning of Steph's socioeconomic background being different from the average ala Kobe Bryant.)
That seems to echo my secondary point that "People resent that 'Baby-faced assassin' shit and how Steph is treated like an adorable teddy bear."
I think at that point we're getting into a stupid Baseball Hall of Fame-type debate. IMO, Curry was very, very clearly the MVP that year. (You may disagree-- That's beside the point, which is more about the "unanimous" aspect than the "MVP" part.) Should there have been a unanimous MVP prior to him? Sure. But relitigating two votes against Jordan in whatever year as a justification for an unjustified vote against a player is silly, just like the baseball conversation where everytime a great player retires, some idiot sportswriter votes against him because Willie Mays or whoever wasn't unanimous, which doesn't fix that past wrong but only compounds and institutionalizes it.
Noteworthy percentage?
Yea ok.Sorry bub... cant discount the precedent and historic impact that an unanimous MVP accounts for. More problematic when it was given during the prime years of a Lebron James. That and the laundry list of other issues (some stated already in this exchange), justifiably result in some resentment on the basis of perceived and actual bias favoring Curry.
Noteworthy percentage?
Sorry bub... cant discount the precedent and historic impact that an unanimous MVP accounts for. More problematic when it was given during the prime years of a Lebron James. That and the laundry list of other issues (some stated already in this exchange), justifiably result in some resentment on the basis of perceived and actual bias favoring Curry.
So you don't think that sentiment is widespread? I don't know what it is since this is anecdotal and we don't have internal polling of NBA players approval of other players but it does seem like a notable number, based on observation (not just my own but that like Wilbon reported).
(The closest thing I can point to objectively, I think, is the NBA players voting Harden over Steph after his unanimous season. But I don't know how much of that is bias and how much is players being ridiculously unaware, unobjective and unreliable when it comes to these matters. A recent example being the below item that I forgot to follow up on: )
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9 threes and the game-winner tonight.
9 threes and the game-winner tonight.
The Clippers are killing the Hawks right now.
PG is in MVPG mode right now. The Clippers at full strength are going to be scary.
That dude Harden shot 41 times.
Clippers got 63 off the bench.