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[Coach Nick] How James HARDEN Is BREAKING The NBA

Discussion in 'Houston Rockets: Game Action & Roster Moves' started by Shaq2Yao, Dec 10, 2017.

  1. Shaq2Yao

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    need a ruling, is Coach Nick a part of “the media”? Asking for a friend. :cool:
     
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    @swyyyguy time to bring up game 6, the mavs, and your ginobli jersey
     
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    I love it. I don't get the criticism and backhanded compliments Harden often gets. This is beautiful basketball. Nice find, OP.
     
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    Excellent link. Thanks
     
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    Look at the media crawling back!
     
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    His name isn’t “Media Nick” is it?
     
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    Cool- thx!
     
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    Nor is it "sportswriter nick", "NBA analyst nick", "Nick at ESPN", "Nick the anchorman", "Stephen A Nick", "Nick barkley", "Nick beadle"...
     
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    He's made several vids recently dissing Westbrook and the Thunder, so def. not media :)
     
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    Love Coach Nick. Best I've found on YouTube for NBA breakdown.

    I do find it funny he keeps saying in this vid "so and so didn't provide help quick enough." Funny thing is that they were told not to by Stotts. This game is a perfect example of Pick Your Poison strategies being adjusted to in the same game by the new fire power we have to roll out....and Harden's own improvement from last year.
     
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    James Tiberius Harden: The Scoring Anomaly
     
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    Video titled "How James Harden is breaking the NBA."

    Video should be titled "Look! POR's defense is trash."
     
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    Honestly their defense wasn’t THAT bad. Other than Lillard, they were guarding him hard and the effort was there. Also the Blazers made a decision to not help defend and leave the outside shooters open.
     
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    Portland's defense was 4th in the NBA. Then they played the Rockets; now they're 6th.
     
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    hahaha it reminds me when we played 3rd rated jazz defense and made it into 8th rated or something
     
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    harden, paul, & the rockets are so boring good defensive teams fall asleep and wakeup suddenly becoming being bad defensive teams
     
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    A lot of the video was about poor defensive mechanics; Nick picked on Vonleh, Leonard and Lillard. Buuut I supposed Harden makes almost everyone look foolish.
     
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    harden was causing/forcing them to make those defensive mistakes and decisively capitalizes/exploits those mistakes

    really only way to stop harden is

    1. double/triple team him
    2. wait til he gets tired or rests
    3. foul him

    with cp3 around they're just pretty much left with #3
     
    #20 vlaurelio, Dec 10, 2017
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