If we have any hope of going far in the playoffs (or even making the playoffs), harden needs to be benched moving forward. His mere presence is making Pg and kawhi play poorly, and is causing the offense to be very stagnant. Additionally, our rebounding ability is dwindled massively. That one possession in crunch time where the nets got like 4 offensive boards and ended with a mikal putback literally lost us the game. And don’t even get me started on how poor his defense is.

I was called crazy all off-season for saying that we’d be better without harden. We ended up getting him anyway, yall happy now?

The lineups moving forward should be:

Russ, pg, kawhi, pj/kobe, Zu (or another FA/trade center)

Bench

Harden, mann, norm, pj/kobe, zu/plumlee

  • BrokromahBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Philly fan checking in. Embiid has a lot of gravity and their 2 man game was really good. Not that PG and Kawhi aren’t dope, but unless the offense has a clear identity, I think Harden will get exposed for how washed he really is. He can still pass and facilitate really well but his drive to collapse the D is absolutely cooked. I think your court is too crowded. Literally probably better off getting Harden to run vs the opponent’s bench, but he’d struggle to swallow his pride and come off the bench. Hope ya’ll figure it out. Clips an easy team to root for.