Pippen & T-Mac discuss how they'd defend Harden

[GilSho]

I'm pretty sure what Scottie is saying is how the Spurs defended Harden in the playoffs. Just pushed him off the 3 point line, chased, and forced him to shoot mid range jumpers. Over the course of 7 games he basically quit because of it. I'd say Scottie is right on the money, but no good teams want to commit that much effort during the regular season. Harden is black Peyton Manning.

This is a horrendous take lol. He didn't quit against the Spurs, he ran out of gas. Watch Game 5 again.

 

[calh45]

This is a horrendous take lol. He didn't quit against the Spurs, he ran out of gas. Watch Game 5 again.

Nah. I'm comfortable with saying he quit. It's not the first time he got "tired" in the playoffs.

 

[B1G_controversy]

The Glove was the master of body positioning and using angles to defend

Your team has to be great at rotating in order to defend Harden

I'm not sure if anyone in today's league is capable of checking him

But I think in order to defend him, you have to wear him down a la 08 Celtics...Ray Allen, Pierce, Posey, Tony Allen...4 good perimeter defenders who took turns wearing down wing players

The only team capable of this right now is OKC

 

[IllmaticDelta]

Gary Payton would have success against Harden

na.....I remember gary payton getting lit up by a young tony parker who couldn't shoot. Harden would have a field day

 

[SuperNintendo Chalmers]

na.....I remember gary payton getting lit up by a young tony parker who couldn't shoot. Harden would have a field day

I'm pretty sure he meant Prime GP breh.

 

[FabTrey]

Gary Payton would have success against Harden

glove would talk about his mama, not brush his teeth for 3 days, don't take shower, and make sure he talk about his daddy. them nikkas back in the day would do anything to slow down a prolific scorer.

harden's confidence level is all time high right now. only way to slow him down is to play tough D, but also get him in his head.

 

[FabTrey]

It's kinda funny how people think full court pressing and double/triple teaming actually work. The Grizzlies & Nuggets recently tried that & it led to blowout victories. He'll find the open man every single time & it'll lead to wide open corner 3s. Just a matter if guys make it or not.

Ball denial seems pointless considering Harden is an iso scorer & lives on the perimeter. You'll take a few seconds off the clock but he'll still get the ball eventually. And that's only a short term option anyway due to CP3's absence.

What I've seen recently though is teams giving up the drive everytime instead of letting him dance with the ball. Bucks did this in our last game against them & forced him into Brook Lopez. Completely sell out to Harden & let the others beat you.

I think Pippen & T-Mac have the right idea but most of this only works with an elite defender. I'm talking Kawhi, AD, Roberson, PG etc.

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all scottie is saying is make harden work at it.

 

[ajnapoleon]

Prime Scottie wouldve had Harden in a phone booth

The same pippen that let mashburn and Jim Jackson run trains on him for 50 a Piece a few times when they went up



Yeah I’m


I watced those games and with these rules they would get hit by reg season harden also

 

[DonKnock]

His plan is to allow Harden to take 30 lay ups

 

[Jordan>>LeFrozen]

na.....I remember gary payton getting lit up by a young tony parker who couldn't shoot. Harden would have a field day

Tony parker played in the 90s?you know which version of Payton he’s talking about.

 

[FakeNews]

Pip with the fresh cut

 

[Henry Orbit]