How Does He Get Away With This?

Bruh fr

@Soth I know right! F*#*king hilarious 😂

Lmao this needs mor likes

Lmao this needs more likes.

Lmao this needs more likes

@Zanzou Uy bro dont give up basketball, you can always get good its not too late. I played alone alot in the park and got better handles and shooting. Now i play against random kids in the park and win

@Zanzou Uy they werent talking to u but ok

Parents most likely don’t have a clue on how a lot of fouls are called.

@mace windont You don’t watch enough basketball, a gentleman sweep is when the other team wins one game and you win the rest, for example Nets win first game, Lakers win next 4.

@Minhajul Haque he's overrated and has always been so. Cry about it kid.

🤣🤣😂😂🤦‍♂️lol

@Minhajul Haque ok i agree that james harden is good and never really played with good players but harden isnt better than mj he never will be mj is the only person who is truly unguardable

@Minhajul Haque harden is objectively a choker he took like 10 shots per game this yeay in the pkayoffs cause he was scared

@blqest you realze most high schoolers shoot like 20% from 3

@blqest he’s literally right though Harden still shot 36% from three on difficult and off dribble three point shots mind you 36% from three if he was a spot up he will definitely be shooting 40% from three no question

Hungti HAHAHHA amazing

Lolll why did you do that to him Why does he look like one too

@Nicholas Saucedo terrible tired excuse ive heard since harden's days in houston. steph has more 3s than any person in the history of the nba and he's at 43% for his career. klay thompson who doesnt have harden's all around game and is almost strictly a 3pt shooter is at 41% for his career. harden is at what 36%? harden has NEVER shot above 40% from 3. even during his days coming off the bench at okc where he wasnt the focal point of the offense and the #1 option he never shot above 40% so that excuse doesnt work at all. harden just doesnt have the same work ethic as steph. too busy with the nightlife and chasing tail. steph is a family man and is a more focused individual. better human being too. much better.

James Smarten

Half the reason they call him Strip Club Harden. Attitudes like that never win championships. He'll always be a good player but will never be in the same conversation as Kobe, Shaq, Lebron, and Jordan. Let's not forget his atrocious defense. Shit if he at least played semi good on defense he'd probably have a good chance at making it to the finals. 🤣🤣

He’s lazy

He works harden reading the rule book lol

I’d still say he works pretty Hard-en

@Rohan Mehta how's Harden doing now?? Lol

@Rohan Mehta looks like the rules were broken and been fixed up

Not any more thanks to the new rule :)

Thats only 44 points

If he moves to Washington he should be nickname Wizard traveling Harden

@Neiss congrats you proved his point

@Leon Francis funny comments, I gave out some likes but, I hope you wrote them BEFORE watching the video. This man just actually made me rethink my feelings about James Harden and his game. EXCELLENT research and video illustration of the points he was trying to make. He's 💯 percent correct, Harden is SOOO clever and what he's doing is well with in the rules. Great video!

LMAO 🤣😆🤣 LMAO!

Not gonna lie this has got to be one of the funniest comments I’ve seen

@Ahmed Ali “Choke Harden” 😂😂😂

Exploiting the rulebook hasn't made the game better for him either lol. No play-off success whatsoever.

hate the game not the player xd

i dont disagree. it's like the hack a shaq; what a dirty way to win a series. so maybe the arm hook needs to be looked at just like they changed the rip through for KD. but the zero/gather step rule seems legit to me

Couldn't have said it any better, brother. Foul-baitting is the most boring, eye-rolling, sleeper shit I've ever seen. Imagine paying hundreds of dollars to watch a bunch of actors shoot free throws.

It's called competitive game, as myself liking competition I hate all people who say I should just enjoy game the way it is

cant be me lmao

Wim Harleev uh oh looks like someone woke up on the wrong side of the bed :c

I agree. Very well presented.

Lmfao

Better Caul Harden

@josh spears no he does it 2 years before just to get extra prepared 😂

Yeah actually you got that right on the fucking money

Terry Dischinger was the dentist of the NBA that’s all I know.

Yo literally same!!! Thought I was the only one

@PG14 haha yeah they sure are. Ultimate example of a poorly aging comment there, wasn't it?... But to be fair I never expected the Wiz to keep up that winning percentage throughout the entire season. I've seen too many seasons of Wizards/Bullets basketball to be that delusional lol

@SlicedBread and now they are 27-31

@SlicedBread this comment was 9 months ago fella

Are the Wizards not 11-5 sitting at 3rd place in the eastern conference?

Imagine getting paid to tell The James Harden he is doing something wrong

Or Wizard traveling Harden

@Glennelle Cabatuan I just wish Harden moves to Washington so he's new nickname would be James traveling harden

@River Valley University 1

@TA HARQA Casual

Still don't care it's mad fun to watch I love harden with all his double stepbacks and stuff

That was a good one

@M So….and no it won’t.

Lol 🤣🤣🤣

@M its called futbol in most countries. Calm down clown.

@R.I.P #24 also, there's only 192 countries in the world so there's the lie.

@Austin Grayson he litterally REACHES for them to draw a foul

@L Harden still can't play defense. He literally almost sold game 7 against the thunder because he let cp walk on by, collapsing the defense and leaving shai open for a 3 which he hit to send to OT

It's the opposite of the ol "why are you hitting yourself?"

@Jayinvestments Not really. Technically the car is hitting him. It’s simple application of general relativity.

@itsKarlDesigns Kobe Bean Bryant worked himself up from behind 2allstars guards in Eddie Jones and Nick VanExel, TheBlackMamba did help and led the Lakers to championships, #TheAnswer not only changed the culture of the NBA landscape, he heavily influenced the style of play and the fashion of the NBA and played wit a championship effort in heart everytime Iverson was on the floor, Harden has a lot moves in his trickbag and a very skilled offensive player who knows how to use the rules to his advantage and TheBeard has made improvements at the defensive end interms of being a solid position interior defender and giving a better effort when guarding the elbows and wing areas on the perimeter, people dont hate on Harden, folks just point out the obvious when he does the stepback travel shot attempt and the hooking and grabbing opposing players to sale a foul when he shoots, getting 30-40points in a game is not effortless, a expands a lot of energy on offense when possessing the 🏀 for 18-20seconds of the 24sec shot clock on a lot of that players teams possessions, makes the offense stagnat at times constantly isolating, thats not a recipe for championship success, but yes, Harden is a phenomenal basketball player, Rockets just need to forget and make adjustments that gm and coach analytical philosophy of attempting only 3s and layups, that defensive guru of a assistant coach they rehired back during the 2019 off-season has improved they defense and put the Rockets in position to win for the pass 3 years, the problem is those 2 goofballs, Daryl Moron and Mike Dandummy

@DIFFERENT NAME LoLF, 99percent huh, thats fantasy video game talk, Fod

@SealTeamRick He seems more of a player player commissioner then for the owners. But I don't think most of basketball elite players would want to change this.

@AB11 The next allowable steps equate to 2 steps. 2+1=3. Not "two and a half". Does the rule literally call the gather a half step? I fuckin hate the NBA sometimes.

@Darryl Flinch I agree completely. Or at least it was more balanced. But Adam Silver would fold like a lawn chair the second the leagues elite criticizes the changes.

They iso against people who aren't professionally trained and are referred by professionals. These street players see a bunch of ball hogs

The Jokerr it honestly depends on who you play with if you play with niggas that are actually decent you get yo props if you play dogshit wannabes then yea

the statement really depends on the defender on the other side

DOLBIT NORMAL'NO What does iso mean? Isolation. Because it’s just you running the play.

But no ones as good as harden is when he isos

@Ramūnas Stulga issue is, outside of the NBA it gets called a travel so even if you do it right, it gets called

Gonna bash someone for being too good?

😆

You can learn their footwork and ball handling?

@M and its also 195 countries

@Mouse time yea since soccer players just move the ball around WITH LITERALLY NO SCORING 0

@Quentin Sauvageau I swear I only get excited for the world cup only to be let down the year after the world cup. I finally realised basketball was just soooo entertaining.

​@M says the guy who calls it soccer while talking about "soccer" in different countries when it's football 🤣🤣🤣

@M 1 it's called football, only 2 countries in the world call it soccer. 2 nobody really cares

@Noah MacFarlane I see what you did there ;)))))))

@ArcanoSk your supposed to say one of the smartest players in the league. Don't break the chain cmon

@Kaden Hughes I’m sorry, is that supposed to be funny? I really couldn’t tell.

One of the smartest players in the league (10)

I’d hate to break a chain but when I tried to type “one of the smartest players in the league” for james harden it wouldn’t let me and then Verizon called me and said some strange things were happening on my phone, asked if it was stolen

Jordan would also jump to shoot, but the defense was in the way, so like 5 seconds later (before he had landed) he would bring the ball to his hip and shoot from there. It would be hard to be a defender and keep your hands off that nonsense.

@Majid Sheikh "Magic complained about it as well" - you literally just used the friendly shit talk with MJ and Bird during a photoshoot for the '92 Olympics to him legitimately complaining. Amazing the mental gymnastics people will do to try to create some kind of reality that doesn't exist.

@Majid Sheikh yeah that's why Detroit was able to beat the bulls just by foiling Jordan super hard huh

your completely wrong about that. he literally got the most favourite of any player in history a d magic complained about it as well.

thank god

@Jaiz Jeeson For one this is TRvid not ela class and for 2 harden doesn’t stat pad watch basketball you casual and for 3 Luka is a good player but none of his moves are very unique and for 4 you will always be biased for Luka since your a mavs fan then when he leaves you will hate him . And for 5 stop talking basketball

@King Will Bruh you have so many run-on sentences, I can't understand most of what you wrote SMH. But anyway, don't try to argue against Harden stat packing, it's a well-known fact. I also mentioned a lot of skills unique to Luka so again, no he isn't ultra similar to Harden. It may seem so on paper, but watching them play is completely different. Watch some actual games and tell me they're the same. It is true that Luka will leave if the Mavs don't do something tho...I really hope not since we really need to keep a generational talent like him!

@Jaiz Jeeson when harden was in Houston he had better numbers than Luka now on the nets his stats are reduced harden is not a stat padder if he was he wouldn’t of changed his game when he joined the nets. And Luka will leave the mavs soon if they don’t make moves to get him a championship team. I don’t hate Luka but he is doing almost all of hardens moves that’s why I nicknamed him the wanna be harden. I’m not hating on Luka but he just plays too similar to harden

Indeed he was. Fun to watch

Alexis Ritter no

@David Eaton Harden has legit moves, often at times, the refs swallow the whistle on Harden jump back, step to the side jumpshot attempts and the initiating contact on opposing defenders and that uropean step, overall i believe Harden will be a 1st ballad hall of famer wit the stats and usage rate, Harden skill set and work ethic in nutrition and off season weight training, inspite of some playoff struggles fits the criteria of hall of fame status

Vitali Tsimoshchanka LoL 3 steps is a travel bud .

@AB11 everyone flops.

Nope I was correct, gather step lets you finish your step if you are gathering the ball, not have your foot on the ground, take an additional step, and then take 2

Nevermind I don't get the gather step rule. In my defense his right foot and ball gather occur in the exact same frame, so if he was one frame earlier it would be a travel.

Hiroshi Look at it again. He picks up the dribble. Both hands on the ball. His left foot on the ground. He then steps back, both feet leaving the ground, his left foot hits the ground briefly to accelerate, then his right foot lands. Then his left foot lands and he shoots. That's 3 steps.

They're also mysteriously blind to Harden's obvious flops and arm hooks, or they whitewash the moves. He almost stole game 3 vs. Thunder the other night with an arm hook on Chris Paul. Announcers talking about how crafty he is.

@Tom Cruz it's not 3 steps it's a move when u dribble and the balls already been bounced

@loslosthuy lol it's not a rule change at all, it's a clarification. The actual rules on traveling haven't changed since the NBA's inception.

They been talked about this even all the players specifically tmac explained this rule

Say “gather step” ITS A 🧳 TRAVEL

SpaceTurtle you’re acting like Harden is the inly player who does that. Not only that but the move is legal and used by many nba players. you’re exposing yourself

Vizual i thought same thing. BOOM kick to the nuts, no..seriously like they used to FOUL him so he cant still get the shot off, wear him down...take the foul, but make it worth it. Make him actually fight for his points, its making a mockery of the game.

@Daniel Nguyen well you can't kick the ball out of someone's hand. So you have to use your hands. People do stay in front of him but once they breath in his direction a foul is called. Or he grabs their arm even when its on their own body.

Then stop playing defense with ur hands and actually move your feet

@Jadon Wolfe I think its the rate he does it and how he actively tries to get those type of fouls is what bothers people. To a lot of people it just feels like a dishonest way of playing the game. People want to see them play as a team and work together. Not one guy fish hooking someone and then look like he's a damsel in distress the instant he touches his defender. Its exploiting a sort of loop hole in a sense and that's not gonna fly with a lot of fans.

Bet

frr

Freedom of movement rule you can probably attribute to steph. He was so good off the ball defenses started grabbing and wrapping him up while he was running around.

@Deus Ex Machina that's why wilt is the goat for me

@lunatic heaven when u r so good that they nerf u by changing the rules.. gotta respect..

James would whoop aangs and Korra's asses

more like flop bending.

And ankle bending

This made me smile

Hail fire lord harden 😂

its cus he got slower because of his age and not taking care of his body he cant create as much space as before its what happens with age hardens time is gone

Should I subscribe to you?

Yeah man!!!

The number of thumbs up is the number of people watching the nba I mean blm league game.....2.6k not so good

Harden is that kid from class that made a cheat sheet to pass his exam and now everyone wants that cheat sheet.

Gokart Mozart how do you cheat? He's literally on the edge of illegal moves he's not doin anything wrong if his moves aren't illegal it's called skill and practice and If you take out fouls games would be slow low scoring boring and basically jus football players playing what fun Is that to watch? They would make no money If you don't like the art of basketball jus leave

damn i just made that joke on another video like 5 minutes ago

@TheGlideIsHere That goes Jard, not gonna lie

James Flopden

andrew carey his eurosteps and drives are usually not travels, and to me it’s usually easy to spot the gather and the 2 steps. My problem with Harden is the step back; it’s such a travel they need to cut that shit out. And the arm hook obviously

Space Alien :Bingo!!! I'd have no problem with these so called rules if they were called across the board. But let the role players start hooking arms and flopping and complaining and taking double triple backsteps and then see how often they let that pass.

On another note it’s kinda crazy that they would change the rules of the NBA so that it’s a completely different game of basketball from every other level.

Drake Marsaly yeah I don’t think it’s on harder, but they should take a look at the rule. In general people used the gather step off of receiving a pass or recovering the ball off the floor. I just feel like dude is abusing it for an extra step. Yeah he’s good but if that shit looks like a travel and he’s just getting three steps they might wanna change the rule. In my opinion it doesn’t make it more fun to watch I just get mad because it always looks like he’s traveling. The only people who think it’s more interesting are Harden and Rockets fans.

@xight obviusly they make mistakes, just like great players miss shots sometimes, but they are still the best refs available in the world.