Harden wasn't being used significantly more than at other points in his career...that's a fact. In houston he would regularly play 40 minute games.

There's not a single speck of doubt in my mind that if they told kyrie to keep his ass home, we have a better season last year (and likely don't have Ben Simmons on our team this year)

I would love to here the rationale behind this.

If they had just allowed Kyrie to play away games, KD's and Harden's minutes wouldn't have been so brutal. You're essentially advocating for a decision which would have only exasperated the problem you're complaining about.

There was a story last year where Nash was asked why he keeps playing KD 38 minutes a game and his answer was simply, 'If I don't, we lose.' He was right. The roster was bad and Kyrie was suspended.

and yet many of you weirdos are pretending as though the coaching decisions taken over the past 3 years have been arbitrary decisions made in a vacuum. They weren't. They were responses to a team lacking in talent outside their 3 best players because they traded all their depth away for an out of shape rental.