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
It was a bad unnecessary trade… and it could have waited until the deadline. There was no need to make the trade at the time it was made… our offense was playing with pace, and our defense was top 5… thats all gone now… he doesn’t fit in the starting lineup. Cp3 his ass to the 6th or 7th man