Rivers on teaching James Harden It was difficult, extra as a result of we had been preventing two issues, and never like visually preventing, it was James is so good at taking part in a method, and the way in which I consider you need to play to win, in some methods, is completely different as a result of it’s plenty of giving up the ball, shifting the ball, coming again to the ball. I might have cherished to have him youthful, when that was simpler for him as a result of giving up the ball and getting again the ball is tough. It’s bodily, it’s exhausting. So, it might have been fascinating if I might have had him youthful the place he may have carried out that extra. Coming off of dribble handoffs, going downhill. He didn’t end in addition to he completed as a result of he’s older, and that occurs. So, yeah, at occasions, to get him to maneuver it and get him to play the way in which I wanted him to play. I assumed the primary half of the yr, we had been the very best group within the sport. I assumed James was taking part in good basketball. He was the purpose guard of the group. He was nonetheless scoring, however he was doing extra playmaking and scoring. Then within the second half, he began scoring extra, making an attempt to attain extra, and I assumed we obtained stagnant at occasions. I assumed we modified. -via Sixers Wire / June 14, 2023