Who would you ther have at their Peak???
Both Players are INSANE offensive talent at their Best… Melo would have the edge Defensively because of his body and physicality but Harden was a better playmaker.
I also know Melo retired with 0 Rings and Harden is on the same track… both players are SUPER Talented but have been labeled as “lazy” and “selfish”…
Melo faced the LeBron/Dwade dynasty and had to play against Kobe/T-Duncan/KD etc.
Harden had the Warriors/KD/ dynasty and played against Giannis/Jokic/Steph etc.
Question…. Who would you rather pick for 1 game at their prime? Who would rather build your team around ? Who would you rather draft in 2K?
Harden’s Prime was from around ‘15-‘20
Absolute nasty numbers: 2016:29ppg/7.5Ast/6reb -82Games PLAYED!! 2017: 29ppg/11.2Ast(League Leader)/8Reb 2018: 30.4ppg/8.8Ast/5.4Reb - MVP 2019:36ppg/7.5Ast/6.6Reb 2020: 34ppg/7.5Ast/6.6Reb
Career High Points: 61 Career High Rebounds: 17 Career High Assists: 21
2018/2018/2020 Scoring champ 7x All NBA 10x All Star
Melo’s Prime was around ‘09-‘14
2010: 28.2ppg/3.2Ast/6.6Reb 2011:25.6ppg/2.9Ast/7.3Reb 2012:22.6ppg/3.6Ast/6.3Reb 2013:28.7ppg/2.6Ast/6.9Reb 2014: 27.4ppg/3Ast/8Reb
Career High Points: 62 Career High Rebounds: 22 Career High Assists: 11
2013 scoring champ 6x All NBA 10x All Star
Me Personally I’m leaning towards J-Harden because the NBA had to chance their rules around him because he was so good at drawing fouls. He is a top 3 guard in my opinion after MJ &Kobe. Melo isn’t a top 3 SF (LeBron/KD/Larry Bird) in my opinion but a better playoff player than No Show Harden.
Did you know? that the current top 3 offensive machines in the history of nba are in the following order:
Wilt
MJ
Harden
Prime Melo today would not be a top 10 player or maybe even not top 15. Prime Harden today would be top 3. Come on its not close
I love Melo but it’s Harden, he was a complete offensive player with his scoring and passing
Harden
Harden by a pretty wide margin imo. Melo was never a good defender and Harden is better than him at what he’s most known for: scoring, and even iso scoring. No disrespect to Melo but Harden clears him. Harden also has an MVP, and should arguably have two.
Prime Harden because his 2017-18 and 2018-19 season, Anthony never came close to that. Harden was the more complete player and also team player. Nowadays he’s the opposite obviously
This is disrespectful to Prime Harden
I’d rather have Melo because I hate watching Harden play basketball, and he quits on every team he’s been on. It just would have sucked having to root for that guy. I also loved Melo in Denver and Syracuse, and if we could have convinced him to play defense like he did in that Lakers WCF, he could have had an even better career.
The question of “Who would you want” is very different from “Who was better”.
Harden loses he quits but melo loses and it’s “if he had just played defense”
Lol
I never said either of those things…
Melos best season isn’t even a top 5 harden season lol