gmoney411 wrote:richboy wrote:PaulieWal wrote:Harden is a great player, a legit MVP candidate this year but.....still one of the most boring superstars of all-time to watch. He's as efficient and skilled as some of the other top guys like LeBron, KD, Curry but his game is amazingly boring. He's efficient as an offensive threat (TS%) but he's still not that fun to watch given he's not efficient from the field (FG%).
I don't think its the fg%. Tim Legler hit on something that I have said for years. Harden does not make a lot of field goals. He is not a great shot maker. I personally think he is boring because he does the same thing over and over again. You know he going to drive left. You know he going to do a step back jump shot if he can't go left. You know on a lot of plays he will rather try to draw a foul than make a shot.
It isn't boring for me but it is like your watching the same thing over and over every game. If he did it in the playoffs you probably just tip your hat to him. Instead when teams see him over and over in the playoffs suddenly those step back jumpers aren't fooling anyone and everyone is wondering what happened to Harden.
The step back jumper has always been one of his moves but it was never his go to move before this year. The playoffs problem for Harden in past years was the lack of calls and not from people catching on to the step back. I actually think he made the step back a bigger part of his game to prepare for the playoffs.
Honestly I have no clue where your getting that. On this board last year people had a tally on how many step back jump shots he tried. Including a game where he tried it over 20 times.
Wade, Harden and Chris Paul are in a class by themselves...luckly it's a small class 
Green and Curry are pretty low on the list of habitual floppers. But Speights does flop. Still below Harden, Paul, and Griffin-- the unholy trinity of flopping.