If harden wants to be traded he will have to play into it. Otherwise teams won't give enough for sixers to care. The bigger the mess he makes the smaller the next contract is and the few suitors are for him despite his talent.
thelunarunit
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They drafted players that play the same position as previous seasons lottery picks. Their going to have issues with playing time, it's a given.
He is not the type of player you guard 1v1 because of his passing. It takes a team to guard him. You can defend him well and he will have like 15 assists. It's like curry you have defend your man and track what he is doing as well.
He is hard to rate. If I am going honestly on ability, top 5. His issue however was his shot selection. So if I wanted to win games would rank him 14. Carmelo's issues were always how he approached the game. If you listened to interviews of stars at the time and he came up often as the guy they least liked to guard.
Coming into the league Carmelo was way ahead of lebron skill wise, yet now lebron is #1/#2 all time and carmelo is way down in the weeds. It's to bad he didn't get drafted by the pistons, larry brown may have been able to fix his problems.
It's a generational change caused the evolution of the three. All the unskilled big men were replaced by undersized players with skill. It took a while for the pipeline to catch-up to what's wanted.