>>Harden’s playmaking ability is sick.
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>It’s funny that people act surprised, he did lead the league
>in assists one

and top 10 in AST every season since then. i don't think folks watched the morey-harden-d'antoni rockets despite them being in nationally televised games all the time. if they had watched they would have consistently seen harden make passes like he's making now. the only "new" passes he's making are the full court transition ones because HOU rarely ran transition offense, preferring to dribble the air out of the ball in a half court offense. HOU was successful then because harden was creating dozens of good-to-open looks for his teammates every game. that's not possible unless you're an elite passer. the difference between BKN and HOU is that BKN has more capable shooters so more of the potential AST are being converted. HOU always took a lot of threes but were usually slightly below league average in 3P%. BKN is leading the league in FG% so harden's AST numbers are up a bit