James Harden said he's trying to find something innovative in every off-season, something more creative than his last move.
Two years ago, Harden perfected the 'step back' and last summer, the Houston Rockets guard perfected the 'backhand'.
In a Friday Q & A session with young fans at a promotional event attended by local Houston media, Harden said he will work on another movement this summer and that "it will look like a trip, but it is not."
"You have to find ways to improve each year," said Harden. "You have to find a way to create an advantage every year."
This year, 'La Barba' will have the task of adapting to his new partner, Russell Westbrook. In this regard, Harden said he was confident that the Rockets' new lineup would work.
"We played together in the NBA and the Olympic Games (2012) and all that," Harden said. "When you have a talent like that, it solves itself." You communicate, you go out and compete possession for possession and you solve things, and over the course of the season you decipher things, that's what it is.
"When you have talent, you have guys with IQ, you have guys willing to sacrifice, it always works on its own."
Harden said Houston welcomes Westbrook "with open arms."
"With the group we already have and the things we already accomplished, it should be an easy transition for him to get up and things are going to go," Harden said.