Three time All Star NBA champ Antoine Walker said this on the all things covered podcast quote.

I am not a James Harden guy, and it's not personal, but you can't win with that style.

Anytime a guy takes 678 dribbles to get to where he has to go, that's a problem.

It works today because it's more of a pick and roll leak, so he gets away with a lot of things now.

But I would not leverage my future for James Harden.

End quote.

Take a listen to hardens response.

There's pick and rolls that happened.

Basketball.

There's isolations that happen in basketball.

Um, and I do both, so I don't really understand what that means.

I just, uh, stuff like that, only to pay attention to, especially somebody that has no credibility.

Well, first of all, we and and to all walking, does have credibility.

I mean, you saw before.

He's a three time Oscar.

This is my thing.

What kind of credentials do you have to have a formal player to, uh, to criticize a current player, I mean, or just not even criticized.

But just state your opinion.

I mean, you don't have to be an M.

V.

P.

You don't have to be.

You don't have to have five or six rings.

I mean, this is just your opinion, and I think Antoine's right about some of the things he said.

That version of James Harden with the dribbles that he played in Houston could not win a championship.

But this version that we're seeing now in New Jersey, in Brooklyn, this is the version of James Harden that can win a championship because you don't see the isolations where he's dribble in the air, out of the ball taking.

He's moving the ball.

He's finding his teammates.

He's he's picking his spots on when he needs to score.

But this version of hardened, I think, can win a championship.

But the version that was in Houston, Antoine was right.

I believe because Antoine played that same style of basketball, trust me, and I'm like, you know, he knows and so you know.

But he definitely has credibility to what he's saying.

He's entitled to his opinion.

Yeah, he is, and I think that?

I think everybody said what they were supposed to say.

There were just too little remarks.

Right?

One Excuse me, James Harden the way he played.

Excuse me, I'm talking like that.

You know, he's in the studio.

You are required to go quarantine for two weeks.

What's going on?

A diet?

What's what's going on?

No, it's just I'm like eyes watering.

Okay.

So back to what I was trying to say before I started sweating You shouldn't take criticism from someone you wouldn't take advice from.

That's my biggest thing.

And so if you're not, if he's not somebody that you would take advice from, then you just kind of move on from that because everyone's going to criticise James Harden.

He's been criticized a million times, actually crying and sweating right now.

Yes, I'm telling you the truth is this topic of conversation that upsetting for it is bothering me so much.

I feel once I started coughing, does this TV still are we still on TV?

Are still on live national television?

Oh, that's great.

I'm enjoying them.

I do.

I do respect what Antoine said, and I played against Antoine in the postseason and you're all on TV, Paul.

Thank you.

It's gone, Paul, you got bein over here.

He's all upset.

I will note for the viewers at home we are.

We are further apart from each other than we look.

We got a new desk today, which is pretty awesome, but it's curved now.

We used to be straight, so we are still about seven or 8 ft apart.

And I got my Kobe test yesterday were fine.

Richard is having an actual physical breakdown.

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