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Message: [QUOTE="Lefty2one, post: 2980977, member: 1001"] He rubs a lot of people the wrong way because he hunts fouls to an absurd extent and gets away with murder offensively: travels (his newish stepback is legal yet silly), should-be offensive fouls/initiating contact, and carries (not that anyone gets called for palming in the NBA). He stretches the NBA rulebook to the extreme. Given how today's game is officiated, he's an impossible cover, especially with the way refs let him jump into defenders in legal guarding position yet it's a defensive foul more often than not. He gets calls in way that'd make MJ jealous. It's frustrating because he is a supremely talented offensive player who doesn't need to play like that. I remember a few years back he went through a stretch where he was passing up wide open layups to go seek contact instead, often leading to poor results. As always, the playoffs will be interesting because the NBA changes the way it calls games. Four seasons ago they stopped giving Harden a lot of those calls in the WCF and he had a very up and down series, especially the clinching game where he had a dozen turnovers or whatever the number was. The biggest thing he'll have to face over the next few years is that Pringles will run him into the ground in the regular season Thibs-style. The idiot has never learned that the NBA titles are won in May and June, not December and January. Harden's usage with CP3 sidelined is insane; it wouldn't surprise me if HOU didn't reach the WCF because Harden will be cooked by then. [/QUOTE]

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