Harden and mamba spirit

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Kobe Bryant's Mamba spirit has been popularized at least at the level of public opinion, but almost all players who give famous scenes will be nominated. This kind of momentum is particularly subjective, of course, based on the fact that the Kobe and Mamba spirits are fully marked and can be widely promoted by local supporters. But in any case, there is a feature that must be satisfied, that is, the player himself is a Kobe fan, or although he is not a Kobe fan, he can be contacted by Kobe in his playing style. As for why Westbrook, who was personally certified by Bryant as the most like himself in the league, was not bound to the "Mamba Spirit", it was another topic.

However, some NBA superstars who are Kobe fans have not been contacted with the "Mamba Spirit", such as Harden. Harden has admired Kobe Bryant since he was a child, and because of this, he has also fought in the speech game, that is, after a quarrel. Harden's entry into the league, and from winning the best sixth man scouting to transforming the Rockets into the regular season's Most Valuable Player, and leading the greatest team of his career to the point where Nash, a stakeholder in the Warriors, his greatest opponent of his career, was able to identify as "the Rockets of the Light bulb age are greater than the Warriors to win the championship," certainly requires the blessing of the so-called "Mamba Spirit." However, Harden's playing style is completely different from Kobe's, and does not take the output of the final round as a routine operation, so it is rarely related to the "Mamba spirit" in the public perception.

Another reason is that Harden has a black history in the playoffs, and if he brings a bit of "mamba spirit", it is what supporters like. Harden's weakness is the lack of presence in the high-end game, and even the violation of the super giant basketball philosophy, similar to excessive possession and wrong offensive choices, as well as unscientific combat mentality, etc., any of which is resisted by the popular "Mamba spirit". This is probably also Harden's understanding of the game and even the "mamba spirit" by the supergiant who relies on vision, the overall situation and the organization of the game.

As a top-five doubles defender in history, Harden is able to navigate most games, especially the regular season. Harden gave his game cap a proper noun in the offseason: Moments of Terror. This term is as much emphasized by stakeholders as the "mamba spirit", such as nets center Clarkston said: If Harden can have a good performance in every game, plus the nets are all healthy, that is the real horror moment. etcetera.

Although the onlookers represented by Wu Yanzu scorn Harden's like to create fouls, few peers have bad comments on Harden, probably only in the All-Star Game to think that Harden is a defensive weakness, Antetokounmpo and compared Harden to explain their offensive and defensive exceptions, but they either followed up or intended not to target Harden. Supergiants like James and Curry, some of them are friendly. Of course, O'Neill, who participates in the show and has a lot of knowledge and personality, will be another model. Bryant said a misunderstood sentence, "It is impossible to win the championship with Harden's style of play", the essence of which is to express that the Rockets will only rely on Harden is impossible to activate the mission, and the focus is not on dwarfing Harden.

Harden, who can't even be restrained by the "Harden rules", once showed a cliff-like decline in the new version of fouls this season, because the parties clarified that it had nothing to do with injuries, so body management became the only reason except for really being affected by the principle of fair play by referees. But Harden, who has only 2 dunks in his floor stream-based career, his physical talent is not to cash in on visually impactful movements, and the damage to the body is limited. Harden's aggressiveness does have something to do with free throws in part, but his aggression itself can provide free throws. So the first free throw statistics after entering the New Year, Harden and Lillard and Trae Young, who made fouls, have increased significantly. This is probably both Harden's grip on the rules and a degree of concession made by the league after reassessing the value of superstars and All-Stars.

Harden's control of the game can not be limited to fouls and free throws, although it can not be cashed in the high-end round for a long time, but when he is normal, it is almost impossible to be defended, the famous scene is the top shot of the super Warriors with four kings, which is hardened the closest to the "Mamba spirit" of a game. After the Christmas war this season, Harden gradually returned to the league's first superstar level. Even if there are losses later in the schedule, his statistics are not bad.

"Familiar Harden" is also the reason why the Nets once insisted that even without Irving, an All-Star starter, they could win the championship. When Harden activated the historic milestone, his attitude was: It's not surprising to be ready to be great, but considering that the list is all Hall of Fame, it needs to continue to work hard. A more referenced conclusion is that Harden believes he has gotten rid of injury hazards and positioning dilemmas. So after delving into James and Curry's Tyrone Lue's loss to the Nets in one of the Clippers' games, they all lamented: Harden cracked any of our tactics, and he made us pay the price no matter what changes we did. It's just that these reviews are repeated almost every year in the regular season, and Harden doesn't need to prove anything, but if he doesn't want to be limited to the current level, he needs to give game influence on the high-end innings. If the "mamba spirit" really exists, it is probably the element that Harden needs most on the psychological level.