James Harden's comments on Giannis game: "takes no skill"

First Giannis said he wanted passers on his All Star team. That's a shot. Harden might "over dribble" but he definitely passes. After the ASG, though, Giannis said they went at whoever Harden was guarding lol

I mean...Harden had to clap back right?

[QUOTE=Kblaze8855;13937983]No you simply said something stupid because [B]you think like a 3rd grader watching Kyrie highlights[/B] not an adult evaluating basketball. I asked you how he could be bad in total considering D the first time and you simply kept at it. Acknowledging that when you say “bad at basketball” you don’t actually mean the game of basketball....you mean dribbling and shooting...makes it clear how shallow your evaluation was to begin with.

I didn’t need to pivot. You said basketball. I talked basketball...you now pivot to not meaning total basketball to begin with. I never changed a thing. I took your words to mean what they did and explained to you how much of an idiot you were being.

The change has been made by you.....because there is no way to keep up your true fan persona while claiming you actually believe he’s bad at basketball. You mean he’s bad at offense. Almost equally idiotic but a very different statement.[/QUOTE]
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Never seen ttrolls summed up so perfectly.

The audacity.

[QUOTE=kuniva_dAMiGhTy;13937984]First Giannis said he wanted passers on his All Star team. That's a shot. Harden might "over dribble" but he definitely passes. After the ASG, though, Giannis said they went at whoever Harden was guarding lol

I mean...Harden had to clap back right?[/QUOTE]

Exactly. Let's not overthink things. Giannis disrespected him on national TV. He had to respond.
Harden being 10th in assists kinda makes Giannis "joke" stupid anyways.

Never heard of trash talking eh.

Team Harden checking in :pimp:

*** Giannis. Don't even know how to say his last name.

We saw it in the all star game too fellas.

How pathetic team giannis was at trying to score when both teams actually started playing in the 4th. The man was running wild until a wall was built around the only area he can score in.

Meanwhile harden hit the gamewinner.

Ain't nobody counting that Lowry flop. Or the anticlimatic ending.

Skill baby. Respeck it.

Is Harden insane? Giannis is a much better player - both offensively and especially defensively - than Harden is.

And it most definitely does take skill to be a man that size who can move the way Giannis does.

I'm not sure who Harden is trying to convince here. The general public or himself. He comes across as bitter.

[QUOTE=LoneyROY7;13937955]Giannis has 57 blocks this season. Harden has 52.

:oldlol::oldlol:[/QUOTE]

Interesting. Giannis still has more blocks, while playing almost 400 less minutes over the course of the season than Harden. 1606 minutes played for Giannis this season compared to Harden's 2020 minutes.

[QUOTE=kuniva_dAMiGhTy;13937984]First Giannis said he wanted passers on his All Star team. That's a shot. Harden might "over dribble" but he definitely passes. After the ASG, though, Giannis said they went at whoever Harden was guarding lol

I mean...Harden had to clap back right?[/QUOTE]
Giannis was just clapping back from what Harden said last season when he said Giannis MVP was media driven.

[QUOTE=Meticode;13938009]Interesting. Giannis still has more blocks, while playing almost 400 less minutes over the course of the season than Harden. 1606 minutes played for Giannis this season compared to Harden's 2020 minutes.[/QUOTE]


It's such a stupid statement either way. Basketball is much more than just blocks even though - as you pointed out - Giannis is a much better shot blocker than Harden is.

Giannis is a much better on ball defender, off ball defender, and shot blocker. He is much better at anchoring a defense.

[QUOTE=Mr Feeny;13938013]It's such a stupid statement either way. Basketball is much more than just blocks even though - as you pointed out - Giannis is a much better shot blocker than Harden is.

Giannis is a much better on ball defender, off ball defender, and shot blocker. He is much better at anchoring a defense.[/QUOTE]

In the end it's just two players being butt hurt. Harden's salty over Giannis' MVP last year feeling it was "media driven". And Giannis is salty because Harden felt he didn't deserve the MVP. It's obvious Giannis has put in hard work over the course of his career and still does. So he probably felt disrespected when Harden said that. Did we all really think that this 19 year old 5 years ago was going to be averaging 30/13/5/1/1? Probably not. 7 feet, athletic and long only gets so you far.

[QUOTE=Mr Feeny;13938008]Is Harden insane? Giannis is a much better player - both offensively and especially defensively - than Harden is.

And it most definitely does take skill to be a man that size who can move the way Giannis does.

I'm not sure who Harden is trying to convince here. The general public or himself. He comes across as bitter.[/QUOTE]
Are you slow or something? Did you not see the shots Giannis threw at Harden? Harden has every right to clap back. First Giannis said he wanted a passer, so he picked Kemba over Harden. Harden is a much better passer than Kemba is. Right after the ASG, Giannis said his team was trying to pass it to the player that was being guarded by Harden towards the end of the game when it was close. Guess what? Harden stopped whoever he guarded

Don’t come around here and say Harden sounds bitter when Giannis is the one who threw the shots first and honestly they were really petty

It’s always been recognized as guards being more skilled. It’s math, there is a lot bigger of a pool to be selected from when you are 6 to 6’6” tall. You are going to have to be more skilled to make it. However the evolution of big skilled players has come along way, not saying there weren’t skilled bigs in the past, but it’s safe to say there are more today. The other part about this that is pretty funny is that Harden isnt exactly a slouch athletically himself.

[QUOTE=Meticode;13938011]Giannis was just clapping back from what Harden said last season when he said Giannis MVP was media driven.[/QUOTE]

He didn’t specifically say Giannis’ MVP was media driven. He was saying that in general, which is right. Before the 2018-19 season even started, look what Zach Lowe said about Harden. He said now that he finally has his MVP, the voters won’t care to give him another one