Replace Harden with AD are rockets still No 1 Seed?

[johnedwarduado]

Are the rockets still the no 1 seed in the regular season in the western conference if harden was replaced with anthony davis. Anthony played three more games than harden and is a better player and a great defender and more efficient. Do you guys think AD with the houston team with cp3 would have the no 1 seed?

 

[MJ Truth]

Not a chance. They’d still be a very good team, but taking Harden off and putting AD in isnt keeping them first seed nor putting them on the verge of beating the Warriors. The Rockets main advantage is they ALWAYS have at least one all time level playmaker on the court at all times.

 

[010101]

nope*

 

[Jplaya2023]

no because of how dantoni coaches the team. Davis wouldn't have the ball in his hands like harden does and CP0 missed 20 some odd games.

 

[Jplaya2023]

it doesn't mean harden is better than davis it means playing in the scheme of MDA, harden's skills are more needed than ADs skills

 

[G-Zeus]

As everyone said.. offense is Taylor made for harden.. players I could replace harden with are curry, Klay, kyrie types...not a big men.

 

[Regular_P]

They still have Chris Paul, right? They'd definitely be in contention for the #1 seed again and better suited for the playoffs.

 

[johnedwarduado]

They still have Chris Paul, right? They'd definitely be in contention for the #1 seed again and better suited for the playoffs.

True,anthony davis is better on both ends of the court.

 

[who_better_than_me]

As everyone said.. offense is Taylor made for harden.. players I could replace harden with are curry, Klay, kyrie types...not a big men.

Klay

 

[Supreme365]

They’d be better
Cp3,Eric Gordon, and ariza that’s still a great perimeter attack

Then to have ad and Capela protecting the rim and cleaning the boards

Not to mention ad can get 30 in his sleep, he scores from everywhere, runs the floor and doesn’t need to shoot as much as harden to get his numbers

Rockets would’ve never missed like 30 straight 3’s if AD was there he’s always an option on the block and elbow when things aren’t working deep
No team has shown that they can slow ad down but we’ve seen harden get shut down or just play awful plenary of times

 

[Supreme365]

As everyone said.. offense is Taylor made for harden.. players I could replace harden with are curry, Klay, kyrie types...not a big men.

Nah the offense is Taylor made for a playmaking guard and they have that in cp3
Harden isn’t the first to run this offense Nash was just as successful if not better

 

[El Coupeacabra]

They get way better defensively. Capela-Davis is a nightmare for a PnR team (so basically everybody) to try and attack because they can each switch and cover a guard and STILL have a rim protector behind them

I think CP3 and Gordon can give you about 75% of what Harden does and with that nasty front line they are probably a better playoff team too.

But I'm a Harden hater though

I don't feel like he makes average guys better.

 

[KingJay]

They'd probably be more of a threat to GSW in the playoffs, but not as good in the regular season.

 

[johnedwarduado]

They'd probably be more of a threat to GSW in the playoffs, but not as good in the regular season.

Why do you think so?

 

[ProlificLurker]

They’d be better
Cp3,Eric Gordon, and ariza that’s still a great perimeter attack

Then to have ad and Capela protecting the rim and cleaning the boards

Not to mention ad can get 30 in his sleep, he scores from everywhere, runs the floor and doesn’t need to shoot as much as harden to get his numbers

Rockets would’ve never missed like 30 straight 3’s if AD was there he’s always an option on the block and elbow when things aren’t working deep
No team has shown that they can slow ad down but we’ve seen harden get shut down or just play awful plenary of times

Ariza left as a free agent. He's on the Suns now, 1 yr 15 million dollar deal.

CP3
Gordon
?/Tucker???
AD
Capela

Not too shabby That's a team thats bound to give somebody problems