James Harden

... keep him together?

Re- well, remember it was like, uh, James Harden was all of a sudden looked really fat and then all of a sudden lost the weight.

Uh, do you think he's wearing, like, a-

Some little, like-

This is almost reminiscent, honestly, the Larkin thing.

This is more so, like, um, like, like, like the James Harden situation a couple years ago.

Yeah.

Where, like, he just showed up just completely out of shape, had, like, that fat suit on, and just, like, ma- just-

Okay.

I just think San- Well, they had 121.5 offensive rating after the James Harden trade on Cleaning the Glass.

That would've ranked second in the league last year behind Denver at number one.

I just think there's so much expert ball handling, shot creation on the floor for them all the time.

Getting rid of Max Strus, people are like, "Oh, well, they got rid of Strus." That's actually sneakily maybe a benefit to their three-point shooting.

Strus is a, um, a, his, his, uh, reputation is better than his actual numbers from three-point range.

Um, and I just think with James Harden and Donovan Mitchell out there at all times, being able to rebound the ball with Jarrett Allen and Evan Mobley and now Peyton Watson, I, I think defensively they're gonna be good enough where they're gonna be able to get stops and get out on the break.

I just think there's too much talent here.

Give me the Cleveland Cavaliers.

Evan Mobley, Donovan Mitchell, James Harden, Jared Allen, Peyton Watson, the new addition.

Love that addition for Cleveland.

They didn't get LeBron, as they once thought, but it was a team two years ago, won over 60, won 60 games.

Last year, 152.

James Harden, a regular season floor raiser and a We're not counting the playoffs.

This is a regular season win draft.

I'm not buying into the Cavs in the postseason.

Number three is Steph Curry, 470.

Number four is James Harden.

Isn't that crazy? James Harden, 411.6.

And he left a lot of money on the table.

And number five is Paul George, right? Now, here's the thing.

Obviously, over the course of the next three segments, we are going to start with the four main guys.

Donovan Mitchell, Evan Mobley, James Harden, Jared Allen.

Then we're going to get into the other guys that I would expect to be in the rotation before finally going through the other pieces of the roster.

There are currently 14 players on the Cavs roster that are on standard contracts.

And if he's better defensively this year than last year, that is something, even if you keep the offensive production what it is, maybe boost it up a little bit, that can be an all-NBA caliber player.

And if that's an all-NBA caliber player, if Evan Mobley is that guy, the Cavs are going to be much better off for it.

Next up, James Harden.

You may have heard, James Harden turned 37 years old this summer.

Number seven,

James Harden.

That's the one who I can't believe you guys had.

I can't

believe, yeah.

I can't believe you didn't get James Harden.

When you went down there, MJ, 37 points per game, I was like, James Harden has to come up next.

And then once you went to Russ.

We should have known then what we were heading for.

I mean, they had James Harden, Kawhi Leonard, Chris Paul, John Collins, Zubac, Avika Zubac, Nick Batum, and your guy Bogdan Bogdanovich.

All are gone.

Remember when they threw them all in? We're going to go for it right here.

They just don't have a lot of pieces right now.

It doesn't look like on paper.

And, you know, they actually, you know, this is all because they had Kawhi on the roster, but, you know, last year they got better, big shock, after James Harden got traded, after they brought in Garland.

They were a much better team afterward, 19 and 13.

And Jalen Brunson was able to get jump shots, hard jump shots off of freaking a, you know, a 12 foot Gumby in Wimbayama.

You know, oh, James Harden, James Harden's fat.

What is he going to do against Jalen Brunson? Come on.

Well, that was no contest.