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

[tpols]

"I wish I could be 7-feet, run and just dunk. That takes no skill at all," Harden said. "I gotta actually learn how to play basketball and how to have skill. I'll take that any day."

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Womp womp....

Where's blaze at?

[MaxPlayer]

Basketball isn't golf or darts. Raw athletic ability is equally important as skill.

[ROCSteady]

he's mad that Giannis will see the Finals as the main guy before him

[Kblaze8855]

You need me to come explain why people with beef don’t make rational observations?

Obviously if genetics and lifting weights could make you Giannis his 2 brothers would be what he is. You need it all.

You really gonna spend the next 10-12 years as one of those idiots who pretending Shaq wasn’t good because he needed his physical gifts to dominate?

Why you’re good and being good are not the same thing. You called a soon to be back to back mvp bad at the game. It’s moronic and that’s all there is to it.

Youre gonna watch people dribble and shoot better while being worse for a long time. James Harden being one of them largely because basketball is still being played when you don’t have the ball. But somehow you shoehorn a total disregard of defense into the idea that you are a serious basketball fan so....this really isn’t going anywhere.

[LoneyROY7]

You need me to come explain why people with beef don’t make rational observations?

Obviously if genetics and lifting weights could make you Giannis his 2 brothers would be what he is. You need it all.

You really gonna spend the next 10-12 years as one of those idiots who pretending Shaq wasn’t good because he needed his physical gifts to dominate?

Why you’re good and being good are not the same thing. You called a soon to be back to back mvp bad at the game. It’s moronic and that’s all there is to it.

Youre gonna watch people dribble and shoot better while being worse for a long time. James Harden being one of them largely because basketball is still being played when you don’t have the ball. But somehow you shoehorn a total disregard of defense into the idea that you are a serious basketball fan so....this really isn’t going anywhere.

Total disregard for defense, huh?

Harden has been a very good defender this season. Top 50 in the league in DRPM. The best statistical post defender per possession in basketball.

Giannis has 57 blocks this season. Harden has 52.

[Kblaze8855]

Not Hardens disregard Tpols. Harden vs Giannis on D isnt a serious discussion.

[Bronbron23]

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Womp womp....

Where's blaze at?

one of the worst takes ive ever seen from someone like harden who obviously knows the game. Him and anyone else who believes this is underestimating how difficult it is for a 7 footers to do the things that smaller people do. Greek is extremely skilled given his height and length.

All harden did here was make himself look stupid. You did the same by agreeing

[Phoenix]

Shots fired.

YJames Harden being one of them largely because basketball is still being played when you don’t have the ball.

[tpols]

I just found it funny because he used the exact same verbiage I did when you and others were flipping out over it.

The shaq analogy is a poor one...saw that coming a mile away. Shaq was a very skilled center.

[juju151111]

Giannis is a very skilled player. Lmao why dont everyone get has big has him and do it who is 7ft? Why doesn't his brothers do it? Lmao

[iamgine]

It is true that Giannis and Shaq didn't have the skill that's even comparable to someone like Spencer Dinwiddie. Think about it, Dinwiddie shoot much better, pass much better, dribble much better. Almost everything that takes skill, Dinwiddie does better than peak Shaq. If Dinwiddie has Shaq's body while keeping his skills, he'd easily be GOAT. The key is, it's much much harder at Shaq's size to acquire those skills. So Harden, while technically correct, is incorrect in implying doing what Giannis does is easy.

[Kblaze8855]

You have had the argument 15 times of course you have seen Shaq mentioned.

You can bring it up 30 more times the idea that he’s bad at basketball simply can’t be defended. He’s simply too good far as defense and rebounding to be bad in total even if he couldn’t score 30 points a game. All you keep doing is showing you evaluate basketball like a child.

Theres never been a player as good on D as Giannis while being bad in total and very few of those who were as good on D could do what he does on offense. You make the list it’s first ballot hall of famers without exception.

You realized long ago your bad at basketball claim was stupid and not evaluating the total game you’re just too far down the rabbit hole to say so.

[tpols]

My comment was always in regards to the way they play offensively.

As is James hardens...

You just pivoted it to something else because you knew it was true.

[highwhey]

He's kind of right. Giannis fouls his way into the paint and the league lets him do it.

[Kblaze8855]

My comment was always in regards to the way they play offensively.

As is James hardens...

You just pivoted it to something else because you knew it was true.

No you simply said something stupid because you think like a 3rd grader watching Kyrie highlights 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.