Spurs G5 & 6 Finally Solved?: Was Harden Playing Through A Concussion?

Thanks for the links.

Had no idea this was out there being discussed. Like others, I was too disgusted to login to the BBS or read anything Rockets related for several weeks after game 6.

 

I'm still disgusted.

 

Not at all - when a 200lb+ man runs into another 200lb+ man's elbow at full speed, that can rock your world if you catch it just right. I'm a pretty rugged guy and I had 3 ribs broken on a similar play once in a basketball game. In slow motion it doesn't look like much of a collision but when Harden is going full speed, Aldridge is pushing Harden towards Pau and Pau is moving towards Harden to contest - his elbow becomes a pretty serious weapon.

 

take it easy we weren't going anywhere last year anyway

that's the farthest any other superstar could have carried that cast and a coach who can only plays an 8 man rotation at the most with pbev as starting pg, a raw capela, and dekker and harrell in the rotation

if it weren't for those 2 games, Morey may never have realized that 1 superstar ain't enough to get to the WCFs at least and he want ahead and went all in on a 2nd superstar like Cp3

 

You sir, have just won the internet today, while also unlocking all achievements.

Thank you

 

Of all GMs you think MOREY needed to be taught that he needed more than one superstar?

 

thats my point.. if anyones to blame that the rockets didn't get farther last year, its morey for his inability to get a 2nd star beside harden

 

What evidence do you have that disputes this claim unequivocally. Yes, you made a pretty graphic but you haven't disproved anything. What DonKnock did was elevate something that has merit based on other similar hypotheses.

 

Why does Keith Jones still have a job? Does he have naked pics of Maurye or something?

 

just ignore him he's just some hater/photoshopper putting 55 win & 2 time mvp-runner up harden at the same level of his idol jeremy lin

 

Last season was THE CONCUSSION.
Let this season be THE REDEMPTION.

 

Great write up.

 

If that were the case why even Morey and MDA claimed Harden was just gassed? Wouldn't it be easier just to say he was not fully healthy?

 

Concussion, ankle, whatever. They are all excuses.

The important thing is he worked hard in the offseason and is looking better than ever. Leave the past in the past.

P.S. @Jugdish great chop but I can't like a post that calls Harden a "mental midget." He may not be in the mentally tough elite but he is far from a "mental midget"

P.P.S. the preferred term is "mental little person."

 

excuses for what? excuses for not getting farther with 1 superstar?

you mean the important thing is we actually got another superstar at the same level as harden

unless you expected us to improve without getting a second star first

and yeah singlehandedly carrying a team to 55 wins isn't exacty "mentally tough elite" because look at what lebron did with kyrie and love and the rest of defending champions in the least.. oh wait..

 

Maybe, maybe not. The league and the org will never discuss or talk about this because it will be horrible PR for us and the league.

Time to move on to this year's playoffs.

 

This is the sort of thing that no one is going to admit to until Harden is long retired and someone in the know, or Harden himself, admits it if the topic of that playoff series or those games come up in an interview.