2016-2017 Playoff Discussion

luck o' the irish. he was hurting them.

 

That's terrible news. Wow.

 

I suppose you're going to maintain the refs didn't have it in for him when he was with Dallas?





LOL .... maybe that's a bad choice of gifs?

 

Bulls getting it handed to them. 18 point lead by the C Bags.

 

if the celts keep having opponents lose impactful players, their 53-win a**** might earn the right to get curbstomped by the west rep in the finals!

 

Bulls are fighting back but Butler has to actually work for his shots. Rondo was setting him up nicely.

 

THAT'S the shot JH gets? a 40 ft leaner?

 

Two bad shots in a row.

 

James Harden shot better and outplayed Russell this game, but OKC still won because Russell finally had a teammate help.

 

The Jazz let too many seconds tick away...

 

Here we go again. I know Duncan, KD, Kobe and Tmac never did the swim move.

 

There is a reason there are flopping compilations for specific players, like LeBron, CP3, Harden.

You would be hardpressed to find one for Jordan. Or Kobe. Or Shaq. Or Duncan.

 

I specifically said that move, not every time. And I've still yet to see any evidence to why they would pick him of all people.

 

and i've yet to see evidence presented suggesting that harden doesn't get ridiculous favoritism from the officials. attempting to change the argument to proof of conspiracy is, again, a logical problem.

your goal as a harden defender is to explain that his FT rate is justified because he's an unstoppable force, the likes of which the league has never seen, not to scoff at conspiracy theories. i don't need to explain why, only that his game is predicated on free throws, many of which are completely undeserved and would not be (are not) awarded to other players.

you said he shot 10 FTs when he first started (and averaged 25). go back and look at real superstars over the course of time--most hit that level only AFTER scoring big for a few years, and nobody depended upon it as heavily as harden. note that he rarely has a big scoring game without approaching 20 FTAs.

making fun of people's search for reasons doesn't invalidate the general premise. unless you're going to do that, i'm not sure what your role is here.

 

My "goal" here is show the other side of ref babies, like you. I already said he gets star treatment. You're saying that he gets super, duper star treatment, " the likes of which the league has never seen. Except every other leader in FTA has had pretty much the same numbers. What % of his fts bogus? Should be easy since he gets ten a game. So 30%, 50% all of them? Nobody has offered even the slightest of explanations why the NBA decided he was the next Kobe. If he's getting all the calls that others don't, that qualifies as a conspiracy. See, the way a debate works, is if you suggest a premise, you have to back it up with some claim, that being that JH is an league made star.

Once again. I don't like him, I hate his total lack of effort on D, the flopping etc. But to suggest that he'd be a border line allstar, if that is asinine. Next time he plays, we'll count how many of shot fouls are legit, questionable or flat out b*******. And then compare the other star's, RW. I'm betting it not near as lopsised, if at all, as you think. If I'm wrong, even based on a one game sample, I'll never talk about the refs again, and someone can change my avatar to whatever they want, for a whole month. Because I'm honestly sick of defending a player who I can't stand because I hate people who blame the rers all the time.

 

I think they feel bad about his teeth.