Originally Posted by
Mythrol
I just hate Harden's style of basketball. Yes, he is a "great" player but his entire game is built around flops and whatever he can do to skirt around the rules. Yeah, it works because they can't make rule changes fast enough but it's not fun basketball.
No one outside of Rockets fans watch Harden JUMP INTO A DEFENDER while wildly hurling the ball toward the basket and says, "Yeah that's the way the game was meant to be played." No one outside of Rockets fans watches Harden pretend to get hit and crumble to the ground when the defender doesn't touch him and says, "Just how Jordan did it."
If there is any clear indication that the NBA isn't satisfied with how Harden plays just look at the rule change this summer. All last season Harden had a gimmick where he would run around the screen setter and if the defender tried running through the screen Harden would immediately stop on the other side and jump into the defenders outstretched arm. Sometimes pinning it to the screen setter and the defender would get hit with the foul call. 3 free shots. The NBA changed how they called fouls on defenders this summer because Harden was exploiting a rule that the NBA did not intent.
Any team other than Golden State or the Rockets and I don't care who wins. Heck if I had to choose I'd rather Golden State because even if they did make a super team, at least they play basketball.