(16-9) since losing Boogie

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Hell is playing one on one with Harden and he gets to call his own fouls.

Harden is great, but lets not act like the refs aren't a huge part of his success...that dude should have to wear a neck brace for the amount of whiplash he "receives" from the BS bumps he receives!

Worst foul of that game was the foul in the loose ball that cost us the possession to take control, but that 4pt foul was pretty chicken shite too.

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Harden is great, but lets not act like the refs aren't a huge part of his success...that dude should have to wear a neck brace for the amount of whiplash he "receives" from the BS bumps he receives!

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He is one of the best and most crafty scorers regardless of the calls. Even if you halve his FTA's, he would still be averaging over 26 ppg. He has one of the best crossovers in the game, the best eurostep, is elite finishing at the rim, and is an underrated passer/rebounder. It is damn near impossible to stay in front of him and even if you do he has that stepback 3 off the dribble.

I absolutely despise his play and think his foul-seeking/initiating (even if it is a skill in its own right) is terrible for the game and needs to be addressed by the refs/league. However the guy is still incredibly skilled and would be successful if he got calls in line with the average starting guard.

The team is better without Boogie.

He’s not going to be worth the $30+ million per year y’all are going to pay him.

Prime I like you, you’re at least the rational Rockets fan. But you can’t honestly believe this.

they fit better without Cousins. roles are more easily defined, they play faster, and Davis plays a lot more at the 5, which is always good.

Net Ratings are the same w/ and w/o Cousins. clutch performance, which may be due to no Cousins or just be entirely random, has gone through the roof since 1/27

the ceiling w/ Cousins is higher. they looked to be starting to put it together with him as the injury came. Davis wants him here and Davis doesn't want to play the 5 this much.

Bringing him back is the right call, even if the risk is great. hopefully less than a max, but we'll see

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Y’all would be better served to spend $35 million per year elsewhere.

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We can't spend 35 million. We have his bird rights so that's why we can go that high.

You really think we can get a player(s) that can replace what he can do? Who is willing to come to NOLA and do that?

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Boogie is a great individual player but he does not help teams win.

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Disagree, we were on pace for a 46 win team with him this year, 12 more wins than last year. There's a learning curve with him (or any high usage player like him) and trying to get jrue-AD-Cousins to work well together took time.

He has to play within the system so that might be a better argument that he NEEDS to do that for a team to contend, but the recent winning (16-9) is more indicative of AD digging deep and dominating than cousins being out. The issue is, he's also playing 36.7 minutes during that span with a substantially higher USG% as well which is not sustainable over a full season at this pace IMHO.

During the 25 games, he's played 24 and averaged:
52.0/33.8/85.6 shooting
12.4 RPG, 2.0 AST, 2.0 SPG, 3.0 BPG, 2.6 TOV, 31.2 PPG

That's a ridiculous tear, MVP caliber if that was over a full season.

Like I said in another thread, agreed that if we could have 30+ million for an elite caliber wing, nobody would deny that'd be SUBSTANTIALLY better $ spent, but there's no wing available. We're stuck with Cousins because there's no other option.