I really like seeing these kinds of threads where there are like 20 comments calling the downvoted person a nephew and in hindsight being completely wrong lol.
In this case I feel like the take wasn’t even that far off the rails, especially as recent as it was (w/ as little disrespect to Harden as possible, obviously dude’s still the 4th best SG and one of the greatest offensive players of all time)- he was already 32 back then, with a heliocentric game relying heavily on athleticism, and was already notorious for being a pylon on defense and going wild in the offseason. I don’t think I would’ve gone as far as saying Maxey would be better by now, but I was definitely on the side of thinking he’d decline pretty rapidly.
I really like seeing these kinds of threads where there are like 20 comments calling the downvoted person a nephew and in hindsight being completely wrong lol.
In this case I feel like the take wasn’t even that far off the rails, especially as recent as it was (w/ as little disrespect to Harden as possible, obviously dude’s still the 4th best SG and one of the greatest offensive players of all time)- he was already 32 back then, with a heliocentric game relying heavily on athleticism, and was already notorious for being a pylon on defense and going wild in the offseason. I don’t think I would’ve gone as far as saying Maxey would be better by now, but I was definitely on the side of thinking he’d decline pretty rapidly.