Random NBA Observations 2024 - 2025

[who_better_than_me]

fukk Harden for deciding to find the fountain of youth tonight

That’s HardGod

 

[who_better_than_me]

time to bring Harden home. The clippers broadcast called him Houston Harden at least twice tonight

 

[Primetime]

SGA should have the MVP locked up imo.

Also not convinced that OKC ain't the favorites for the title, barring injury...

In a weird way, they’re borderline underrated in this regard. You’ll hear noise that they need to avoid this team or that team in the West and I’m like… yall do realize OKC about to wash all of them outside of Denver. And they’d have a solid advantage over the Nuggets too.

For all the talk of their lack of experience, put Hartestein on last year’s team and they’re probably in the Finals.

 

[DoubleJ13]

 

[Primetime]

Outside of Minnesota with the corpse of Conley, there’s no other hypothetically “good but could be great” (or better) team in need of a starting point guard.

So as good as Harden still is, his path is really: transition to the CP3 mentor role on a young or rebuilding team in need of a point guard, take the Russ role of being a super 6th man on a title team, or continue as is starting for a treadmill 1st round exit.

 

[Illin Degenerate]

SGA should have the MVP locked up imo.

Also not convinced that OKC ain't the favorites for the title, barring injury...

theyre both having historic seasons and either would be worthy but right now its sga. if it was a tie based on how great theyve been sga playing in 5 more games and okc having an 11 game advantage in the standings would be the tiebreaker. okc should absolutely be the favorites, right now they have a better srs 12.38 than the 11.80 by the 95-96 bulls. the cavs have a 10.70 srs which equals the 96-97 bulls. only one season in league history has there been at least one team with an srs over 10 and a team a team with an srs below 10 won the title.

 

[Big Boss]

SGA clearly the MVP

 

[GunRanger]

sitting with Ballmer

Locked in

 

[Thavoiceofthevoiceless]

Outside of Minnesota with the corpse of Conley, there’s no other hypothetically “good but could be great” (or better) team in need of a starting point guard.

So as good as Harden still is, his path is really: transition to the CP3 mentor role on a young or rebuilding team in need of a point guard, take the Russ role of being a super 6th man on a title team, or continue as is starting for a treadmill 1st round exit.

Mehhh Orlando says otherwise.

 

[Primetime]

Mehhh Orlando says otherwise.

Nah. They’re Houston Rockets level.

aka “Mentoring a young team” status, but not making them great (title-contender) next year or the year after.

The underlining question being how does James want to finish out his career outside of maximizing his money

 

[Thavoiceofthevoiceless]

Nah. They’re Houston Rockets level.

aka “Mentoring a young team” status, but not making them great (title-contender) next year or the year after.

The underlining question being how does James want to finish out his career outside of maximizing his money

Might as well continue maximizing his bread as a ring at this year isn’t going to do much in changing the narrative of his career based on his age

 

[stepbackj34spud]

Gotta love Giannas. No nights off.

 

[who_better_than_me]

Outside of Minnesota with the corpse of Conley, there’s no other hypothetically “good but could be great” (or better) team in need of a starting point guard.

So as good as Harden still is, his path is really: transition to the CP3 mentor role on a young or rebuilding team in need of a point guard, take the Russ role of being a super 6th man on a title team, or continue as is starting for a treadmill 1st round exit.

Houston is vastly in need of a starting pg. they’re the worse offensive team i the playoffs in the west

 

[OGBobbyJohnson]

 

[Primetime]

Houston is vastly in need of a starting pg. they’re the worse offensive team i the playoffs in the west

I would welcome that

We likely ain't in title contention for another 2-3 years but if he's got another 4-5 years in the gas tank it'd feel right to have him involved.