Watching the Rockets last night, it was clear to me that the Rockets need to blow it up. It will never work. Westbrook is awful and Harden can’t win a title as the #1 option. In fact, history (2012) says he can’t do it as the #3 option. But what if we brought him to Portland where he no longer has to be The Man? Houston fans would love the all around game of McCollum (what is this midrange thing he’s doing?) and we could throw other pieces their way including size so they could put together a proper team. Portland would finally have a big guard in their backcourt. Houston can send us PJ Tucker too. They can have Ariza back to go with Zach Collins and Simons and our next two first round picks. Sign Marc Gasol with MLE. Dame/Adams Harden/GT2 Tucker/Hood Melo/Little Nurkic/Gasol That team has toughness in spades. If CP3 can carry Harden to WCF 3-2 lead, Dame can take him the distance. Dame can also play off the ball a bit with Harden handling the ball. Teams wouldn’t be able to trap either of them.
Interesting thought. Even if we could trade for Harden and even if it made us title favorites I dont know that I could support his ref baiting scam of a style of basketball.
It would take so much more to get Harden. Then there is the fact that both him and Dame need the ball and neither is a big time defender. Yeah if we could get Harden we might be better but with what we would have to give up it wouldn't make us contenders. That being said, Harden is on a contract for at least two more seasons so I just don't see Houston's hand being forced into trading him for anything other than another MVP caliber player or a much bigger package than what you were offering or we could offer without giving up Dame. So he's not someone we could get and we really don't need him. The reason why people floated so many ideas for Giannis wasn't just because his team under-performed but also because he's going into the last season of his contract.
Holy shit--I looked up his salary and the dude is getting paid $46m in 2022-23 when he's 35. Nevermind that shit.
Don't like his style of play at all - but if he helped the Blazers win a title I would volunteer to comb the lice from his beard!
Westbrook and Harden won't help. The team needs to play defense before it can carry on in the playoffs. I would prefer a new coach that came from collage ranks rather than waste money on the beard and the mud man.
I just threw up in my mouth......and then blew chips all over the floor. I’d rather have Donald Trump running the point for Portland.....
If Harden came to Portland he would never get to the free throw line again and so he would be shit because that is most of his gimmick.
