you must be tickled if you quoting me from 2 weeks ago

I woulda thought he’d be mad that Harden left H Town

You're low ball IQ comment has nothing to do with regular season success... He's literally been the main guy in BK... Harden is leading them in the majority of stats.... Regular and advanced... He's quarterbacking the most prolific offense oat.

Last time Harden played with someone of Kyrie's caliber... He went 7 games with arguably the best team oat... With his 2nd best guy going down to injury.

Your comment showed how little you know about the topic.... Thus you're a casual.

You clearly don't know who you're talking about.... Garbage low level arguments

I don’t base my rankings on “he will someday”

Regardless... Individual accolades he's got Wade beat easily.. if he gets a ring he only further cements it

Didn't even know this thread existed till now

I'm mad at our s*** ass owner for destroying the franchise... His meddling led to the current franchise situation.

Harden was basically the only guy hitting something for his team in that game.... He also was going up against a stacked team that NO ONE BEAT or came closer to beating.... And a team that swept LeBron and Gentlemen swept him the year prior.

Get your ball IQ up

Yeah you must've forgot they were down 3-1... Harden dominated game 5 to keep them alive for that G6 where they had the crazy comeback with Smoove hitting flukey 3s while Harden was on the bench...

Then it went to game 7.... Another game they had to win to comeback... Harden went off in Game 7 and Rockets beat the Clips completing the 3-1 comeback.... A team that most would say on paper had more talent than the Rockets top to bottom.

40 yr old Jason Terry was starting on that Rockets team.... Corey Brewer was getting significant rotation minutes... Pat Bev was out for their postseason and the 2nd best offensive player on the team that season was DMo because Dwight missed a s***load of games... DMo who was out for the postseason as well.

Wade played in the Leastern Conference his whole career where bummass .500 and below teams made the offs and never had to take on a superstar studded opponent...

You don't know s***.

Cp3 had been injury prone for most of his career.... The last two years have been an outlier... Partly to him taking better care of his body and he credits a lot of that to his change in diet as well, but that man has missed a s*** load of games or been compromised due to injury in pivotal PLAYOFF SERIES.

Cavs were ass and got bodybagged... Rockets also owned the Bron Cavs.. they would've beat them

Wade
Career stats: 22 ppg, 5 apg, 5 rpg
3x NBA championships
1x NBA Finals MVP
13x all star
1x scoring champ
8x All NBA team selections
3x All defensive team selections

Harden
Career stats: 25 ppg, 6 apg, 5 rpg
1x MVP
1x 6th man of the year
9x all star
3x scoring champ
1x assist champ
7x All NBA team selections

Fairly similar accolades but Wade’s are superior & he has rings. He was also an elite defender most of his career. He’s got my vote

injured often doesn’t necessarily mean injury prone... to me means injured often in one area

Lmaoooo

Wade's career is over.

An NBA MVP ranks higher than a FMVP as far as individual accolades go... Harden is gonna match him in all nba selections this year and get another assist title... He's also led the NBA in more categories than any player in NBA history.

Harden gets one ship it won't even be an argument as he's still firmly in his prime and will continue to get more selections.

I got a question... do you rank Dirk over Wade?

umm huh... nigga that's exactly what it means

actually your right that was the wrong term but wouldve been better if I said Houston was appeasing Harden by giving him Chris Paul, and man still decided to constantly over dribble, Westbrook who got tired of the iso ball and dribbling and when he got Howard , he was still an all star and they went to the WCF.

This is major revisionist history.... Houston didn't "appease" Harden by "giving" him Cp3... Cp3 wanted to join Houston because of Harden... they spoke about this in the offseason and CP decided to join him... Morey pulled the trigger on the trade with that knowledge.

Cp3 couldn't stay healthy either of his 2 seasons in Houston, but the first season they worked marvelously.... Harden carried the load when he was out and when he played they were nearly unbeatable... they won 65 games and had best overall record in the NBA.. Harden and CP3's "overdribbling" led to the #1 offense in the league and they had an elite defense.... They lost in 7 in the WCF to the stacked KD Warriors after Cp3 went down with the hamstring.

The following season the owner meddled with Morey's moves to save LT... our best wing defenders walked in FA... Never really replaced them, then Cp3 was even more injury riddled and Harden had to carry a team with a ton of injuries.. missing his 2nd, 3rd, and 4th best players for many games and averaging 36 ppg in the process beating many good teams while outmanned... They played the Warriors again in the offs and lost in 6... Harden statistically was the best player in that series carrying the Rockets and outplaying KD before his injury.... doing so with a physically compromised Cp3 that had the WORST SERIES OF HIS CAREER.

Cp3 never made it outta the 2nd round in his career before teaming up with Harden.

The Westbrook trade never should've happened, but he also couldn't stay healthy and got covid right before the bubble... then pulled his calf in the bubble and wasn't right physically for the playoffs...

Which forced Harden to carry an extended load during the season and into the playoffs.

He missed the first 4 games against OKC and came back playing HORRIBLE basketball.... He was straight ass against LA the following series.... The Rockets best bench player got banned for covid violation... While Harden once again was the best player statistically in the series against LA... Lakers won in 5.
Dwight Howard was an allstar only in year 1 in Houston... He was a shell of himself physically though each season after that and unfortunately he was determined to be an inefficient post player instead of playing to his and Harden's strengths as elite PnR players.... And of course he had a coach in McHale fully willing to go along with giving him a ton s***ty post touches.... He missed a s***load of games with injury as well....

Which forced Harden to have to carry an extended load into the playoffs.
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Harden is not better than wade lmao, no way.

well he should have a ring this year. there's no excuses if he doesn't win one in these next two years.

So anyone who disagrees with your expert watching opinion means they don't know the game lmao aight. Again get off your high horse

LMFAO, you watched all that basketball and understood none of what was happening

Wade the 3rd best SG all time behind MJ and Bean. facts.
Wade 06 Finals was the best finals performance ever, until James in 16. facts
Wade the best shot blocking guard ever, an elite defender during his prime. facts
Harden the better scorer/3pt shooter, maybe one of the most prolific scorers in the history of the game, but he been a turnstile on defense. facts

there's a reason (stacked) Harden-led teams sputter in the playoffs. he could never do what Wade did 06 (and if you even mention Shaq's name for that 06 run then idk what the hell you were watching). and Wade was the best player on that 2011 Miami team that lost to Dallas, especially during the Finals

sorry, but Harden can't eclipse Wade, it's too late. simple fact is Wade/Harden discourse is the ultimate litmus test to see who knows ball and who doesn't. go back, watch some more film, learn the game

0 rings, 1 finals appearance (as a BENCH player/6man)

Rockets missed 27 straight threes in a game 7 at HOME to choke away a 3-2 lead in the WCF over GS

yea bro, such a better resume than Wade

Harden can count all those mickey mouse regular season "accolades" or whatever he wants, we only count ringzzzzzz on this side, sit down lil boy