Hoops

Houston Rockets are a disgrace

Beasley can create his own shot and score in bunches. Plus he has a nice pick and pop and roll game going with Harden. Something Harden and Dwight just cant get going. Those two play well off each other and once he has a proper preseason with the team he can be one of the best scoring bench players off the bench in the entire league.

Beasley is a great scorer and Houston has a team option on his contract worth a million which is a bargin.

Bledsoe is a unrealistic option as the Suns would want a lot in return which Houston dose not have.Houston's trade assets outside of Harden and Capella are not great. Harden is not getting touched and Capella would need to be a very good return for Morey to even consider trading him.

As for Vucevic I think he just signed an extension so I cant see the Magic giving him up especially with the nice team they are building with Gordon, Payton and co.

HOUSTON'S PIPEDREAM is Durant but I highly doubt that he is leaving OKC anyway.

If the Jeff Van Gundy rumours are true expect the Rockets defence improve next season as he is a defensive genuise.

Offence will never be a problem for any team with Harden on it but what killed them this season is terrible defence and poor defensive rebounding.

They need to get rid of Corey Brewer, Josh Smith, Trevor Ariza(for a good deal in return) and Terrence Jones.

Re-sign Montijunes and go after Horford and Noah who could thrive under JVG if he ever gets fit.

Beverley
Harden
Ariza
Horford
Noah


keep Beasley and Montijunes. sign some vets on the bench

Brilliant game by Harden including a huge game winners. Kudos to him but he is the only real star they have and without any help he and the Rockets are going no where

Harden had more isolation plays this season than the entire GSW team put together. There is no doubting his talent, but he isn't a winner

I honestly think if guys just didn't reach when he holds the ball out, he wouldn't get half of the calls... But they reach, every time.

^^^^ Nonsense!. Paul Pierce made a career of living at the free throw line as did Allen Iverson.Durant is doing the same now. Sure Harden sells a lot of those calls but majority of the time the guy gets hacked because no one can stop one on one because of his quick first step and that combination of size and strength.

James Harden is the most overrated superstar in the league!!
He plays 0 defence and when he has the ball is just dribbles it to death looking for his own shot while his teammates stand and watch.
I can't believe he doesn't get even more critism that what he gets at the moment. The only way he can score consistently is getting to the free throw line. And he only does that because he outstretches his arms when driving to the basket which makes it look my like a foul when het gets contact as he embellishes the contact enough for the refs to fall for it every time.

Give a rats'

Of course he doesn't have a rats...
The man has like 8 baby mamas...

What really annoys me about Harden is that his lack of defensive skills are caused by total laziness and a lack of effort.

He will just 'give up' on plays so many times.

If i was someone like Trevor Ariza i would be terribly p***** off that I was busting my gut defensively all for Harden's lazy defence to let it down.

You can be a half-decent defender on heart and effort alone. It's even more funny that Harden is happy to use all his attributes for offensive purposes, but not defensively.

If I was the Rockets GM, I'd be doing anything to move Harden and Dwight and i would happily trade both for two non-all stars. It's one thing I like about Australia and in particular NZ sport - it doesn't matter if your the king of your sport or you're a benchwarmer..every coach, your teammates and fans will hold you accountable and no one is "above the team".

Harden couldn't defend a chair

Jalen Rose said on the weekend that if you were starting an NBA team you'd rather have Festus Ezeli as your centre than Dwight Howard and it's hard to argue with that give Howard's disgraceful attitude, laziness and general lack of skills apart from his athleticism and strength.

DECLINING

Harden is a flat out scoring machine and a pretty good playmaker. Sure he dose not play much defence, but with his skillset and age(only 26)he has much more value then a decling malcontent like D12.

Yeah, Dwight Howard's career trajectory ever since that Magic finals series has been steadily trending downwards...

LOL, when he finds the right team?!?! Let me know when that is.

Petulant, over-rated, whiny non-winner.

Howard can still be a force on the right team. He played well yesterday even though he barely touched the ball. The refs screwed him over on a few calls as well.

No chance he resigns with Houston!

Howard on any team isn't a good idea

The Harden & Dwight effect on the same team was never a good idea.