Houston Rockets head coach Mike D'Antoni is not buying into the reported back-and-forth between point guard Chris Paul and franchise star James Harden, who reportedly had a heated discussion following a Game 6 loss to the Golden State Warriors. Paul reportedly had a problem with the lack of touches and ball movement stemming from Harden's ball-dominant game play, an issue he had also escalated to D'Antoni in the past.

“Nah, nah. I don’t – I think that’s … You know, we’ve always, we go back and forth about how to play the best that we can play,” D'Antoni told Sam Amick of The Athletic. “I think for the most part – and anytime, sometimes it’s too much of this and too little of that, you know? So I think that’s normal. I think that’s just, that’s just you guys being a little bit eager to print something that wasn’t a problem.”

D'Antoni's offensive system revolves around Harden like the solar system revolves around the sun, so it comes to no surprise that the coach isn't making much of this disagreement between his starting backcourt.

Yet Chris Paul has been asked to make plenty of sacrifices upon being traded to the Rockets, as he's taken a back seat and used as a secondary playmaker and ballhandler, one that operates as the primordial point man only after Harden has left for the bench or gone through a cold streak shooting the ball.

The 34-year-old point guard has gone from a nightly 20-10 threat to a modest 15.6 points and 8.2 assists this season, largely prisoner of a system he's not fully sure he believes is the one that can catapult him to an NBA championship.