WWW - Pickle Report Week 19

Since walking away from Brooklyn moments from disaster James Harden has continued to produce first round value based on elite free throw shooting, and assists numbers. We've seen improvement of 4.1% in FG% that is matched by a dip in his Free Throws Attempted from the previous year, his points are down a little but so are his turnovers. Harden remains one of the best facilitators in the game and currently leads the league in per game assists and is ranked 4th in total despite missing 14 games earlier this season to a foot strain.

In the last week Harden has cranked it up a notch, making 31 of 32 free throws and hitting 5 3s in back to back games. He came just shy of a monster triple double against the bucks posting a 38/9/10 line a season high on points. In addition he managed 40 assists on only 15 turnovers, while contributing a over a Stock per game.

While his days of being a controversial figure in the NBA due to his antics are long past, he has been able to adapt his game, allowing him to be in extremely limited company of brooklyn nets players who requested a trade and won a pickle. We at picklytics.com are proud to declare James Harden the Bread and Butter pick of the week.