How much of the Harden love on here is tongue in cheek?

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Houston fans say he is the MVP bar none, yet can’t get his team to the finals.

Dirk carried the Mavs to not only a finals appearance but a ship against LeGOAT. Harden can’t wipe prime Dirk’s arse.

Boom’s tongue is in his buttcheeks

Cool. Did not know that.

By the espn analytics guru Ben alamar. But thanks for playing.

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Once you account for the fact that Harden defends as many pick-and-rolls as he does drives and post-ups combined, Harden is a solid B defender this season. That's a slight increase from last season -- and significantly better than the memes suggest. He is far from a lockdown defender, but Harden is above average,

Murdered with words lmao

He walk right Into that one didn’t he. these are always my favorite kinda posts.

Thank you for this, which seems like a thoughtful, non-ironic post.

I agree with most of Prime Time Money’s post. This board has a strong Rockets vs Pelicans rivalry which is odd because that isn’t a rivalry anywhere else.

Harden is a guy that a lot of neutrals hate due to his playing style. He initiates a ton of contact and embellishes on contact from others. He leads the league in free throw attempts. His fans will say drawing fouls is an art. His haters will see he is saved by refs more than anyone. It’s not just Pels fans. Honestly the defense angle isn’t even discussed much anymore. And yes, he is on an unbelievable tear the past 2 months or so. It’s up there with the best 25 or so games jna row of any player in the modern era.

However this whole Pels-Rockets rivalry on the MSB is definitely growing in large part to Boom’s posts. I remember when he was just a normal poster but these days, his primary goal is to wind up Pelicans fans. This includes over-the-top praise of average Rockets and referring to everyone on the team by first name, as if they are IRL friends.

His defensive metrics have fallen off vs last year, though. The Rockets were a very solid defensive unit last year and that inflated his D a bit. He's average this year, and rises and falls with his team's strength.

Harden is a great player. I think any objective fan would recognize that.

It is fun to tease Harden lovers on here because he might have the most emotionally devoted fan base of any player.

The real knock on Harden is his postseason performances have always been worse than his regular season. He is elite in the regular season and does produce around MVP level. In the postseason, he's good, but not the elite guy we see in the regular season.

Guys like Boom push him as historically great. I'll never see him like that until his postseason has the same quality his regular seasons do.