Harden brings the ball across half-court, moves hastily to the three-point line, and seems to consider taking a three-point shot. And hopefully your favorite players will start doing that, too.They made a point to tell every head coach that is not traveling. Everywhere you go, you will see players practicing the step-back move. level—now felt incomplete. When James Harden was busy Euro-stepping his way through opposing defenses, crowds on the road would lose their minds with complaints, loudly shared, that he was traveling.He wasn't. The moves I do and I create aren’t travels, or the referees who get paid a lot of money, and are the best at what they do, would call a travel. It’s like seeing your friend in need while having to take care of yourself.

He became a sports writer because the reporter that was supposed to cover the University of Delaware basketball team decided to instead play one more season of college lacrosse and has never looked back.Feigen, who has won APSE, APME and United States Basketball Writers Association awards from El Campo to Houston, came to Texas in 1981 to cover the Rice Birds, was Sports Editor in Garland before moving to Dallas to cover everything from the final hurrah of the Southwest Conference to SMU after the death penalty.After joining the Houston Chronicle in 1990, Feigen has covered the demise of the SWC, the rise of the Big 12 and the Rockets at their championship best.

He is a genius at deceleration. The feeling is of a player dancing with himself.

(Though it’s hard to imagine a nation But these game-winning shots and gaudy statistics, scintillating as they are, only hint at the pleasures of watching Harden play. What is it that complaining fans, and sometimes media, believe Harden has that makes officials change the rules for him?For Rockets fans, this might feel like a step-back in time, a happy reminder of when fans would complain about Hakeem Olajuwon's "Dream Shake," screaming that move was a travel. He gathered the ball and hopped to his left.

It appears that This might be worse than a James Harden travel and that’s BAD. He lead his team, the Houston Rockets, back from a twenty-point deficit to beat the Golden State Warriors, the defending champions, on their home court.

To accelerate faster than another player is an obvious advantage, but Harden has shown us the other side of this equation.

At all. Then he lunges and either continues to the basket, to score or get fouled (or both), or steps back.

She thought that it resembled hip-hop footwork, with its wide step and change of direction, “like a top-rock in breakdancing.”Harden didn’t invent the step-back, and, at this point, it seems that nearly every N.B.A. But my response was more visceral than that—something about Iverson’s game appeared dated.
I noticed a lot of times when Harden does a step back three he takes a step forward and then two separate steps back before shooting.
It’s going to be here for a while.

The move sends Curry reeling.Harden pulls up for a short-range shot that goes in. Durant, also a former M.V.P.—these guys are really good at basketball!—opens his defensive stance so he has a view of both Green, who is his responsibility, and the ball. Curry flicks his hand toward Durant in a way that suggests that he needs no help.

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It has completely changed the balance between the inside and outside dialectic of basketball.