Why does James Harden shoot so poorly in the playoffs?

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All of a sudden :what:

This ain't new bruh

:whoa: Some people have known the whole time, reading around it's like some people are just finding out what is really going on.

James Harden is the exact same player he was once he got into the NBA. The only things that have changed about him since being traded were his minutes (& by extension his numbers), his role, his pay, & expectations.
 
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Nah he's played exactly how a few of us said he would

We been telling y'all this is what happens when the refs don't consistently reward his flopping

He played like shyt last year too. We told y'all this would happen last year and then you saw Derrick fisher guarding him effectively on an island

DERRICK FISHER

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Step in here

And we haven't even brought up his "defense" yet :mjlol:
Dudes might have thought I was over-doing with all that upping of threads over the past two seasons and the constant reiteration, but now they see the truth. :yeshrug:
 

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:whoa: Some people have known the whole time, reading around it's like some people are just finding out what is really going on.

James Harden is the exact same player he was once he got into the NBA. The only things that have changed about him since being traded were his minutes (& by extension his numbers), his role, his pay, & expectations.

I think the problem was he was obviously the missing piece of OKC not winning a title...and Houston essentially gave him a max contract...and Harden is definitely good enough to be your third wheel...probably over qualified for that...which is why he was the missing piece in OKC eventually getting a chip...

And his game is tailor made for the nba regular season...it is such a soft league now...any little contact and you fall you get the call...

All of a sudden he putting 40 point games...but somehow nobody notices it took him 24 free throws to get it...where is that thread where he had 20 something points but only made one or two shots...:mjlol::mjlol:

And people forget at OKC he was always on the floor with Durant and Westbrook...he was never the focal point of the offense...

I also think Brooks having him guard Lebron in the finals fukked his head up...I think on the defensive end he has flashbacks of being stuck on the low block with Lebron...people forget just how brutally Lebron abused Harden...it was like if some c00n ass nikka who did a credit card scam got caught and they sent his ass up to RIkers Cell Block D with some nikkas doing 25 to life for armed robbery, assault, and a triple murder...just some ungodly cruel shyt...that why he is so flat footed on defense...he spends the whole time having PTSD flashbacks...

Lurch better grow some balls and flip Harden and Chandsome roles...every time they make the playoffs

Every team in Texas flexin and plexin but the Rockets...
 

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Now who else wanna fukk with Hollywood Court?
Dudes might have thought I was over-doing with all that upping of threads over the past two seasons and the constant reiteration, but now they see the truth. :yeshrug:

Batum and Wes out there going at him like -




Just back and forth bars all over Harden
 

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Watching dude play makes me feel like one of those old embittered white dudes that are always complaining about the nba...even when he's having good games, the way he gets his points almost make you hate the game...then you see how utterly ineffective he's rendered when it's playoff time and it's just :snoop: ...the end of game one where he's just sitting there hopeless, confused, and froze with fright because he couldn't manage to find a way to flop his way to the freethrow line was just some shameful sh!t...there's also prolly not a single star player in the league more hated by his team's own fans than him...I lurk the rockets board after games like this for no other reason than to watch them sh!t all over this dude

Percentage of FGA by distance during regular season

0-3 FT: 27%
3-10 FT: 12%
10-16 FT: 8%
16-3pt : 12%
3pt: 40%


That's absolutely ridiculous. Dude is the definition of an analytics ringer. Feast or famine player. High rate of easy layups, 3's, and free throws. Can't do anything else outside of those things to score.

How funny would be if the Rockets get swept off the strength of LMA MURDERING THEY ASS off mainly a steady diet of mid-range jumpers :mjlol: ... harden's troll-game fits morey's analytics based ideals to a T, it would be a fitting end
 

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I think the problem was he was obviously the missing piece of OKC not winning a title...and Houston essentially gave him a max contract...and Harden is definitely good enough to be your third wheel...probably over qualified for that...which is why he was the missing piece in OKC eventually getting a chip...

And his game is tailor made for the nba regular season...it is such a soft league now...any little contact and you fall you get the call...

All of a sudden he putting 40 point games...but somehow nobody notices it took him 24 free throws to get it...where is that thread where he had 20 something points but only made one or two shots...:mjlol::mjlol:

And people forget at OKC he was always on the floor with Durant and Westbrook...he was never the focal point of the offense...

I also think Brooks having him guard Lebron in the finals fukked his head up...I think on the defensive end he has flashbacks of being stuck on the low block with Lebron...people forget just how brutally Lebron abused Harden...it was like if some c00n ass nikka who did a credit card scam got caught and they sent his ass up to RIkers Cell Block D with some nikkas doing 25 to life for armed robbery, assault, and a triple murder...just some ungodly cruel shyt...that why he is so flat footed on defense...he spends the whole time having PTSD flashbacks...

Lurch better grow some balls and flip Harden and Chandsome roles...every time they make the playoffs

Every team in Texas flexin and plexin but the Rockets...

That is another one of those Harden myths, that he was a decent defender in OKC. The team defense made him look decent. He don't have that support in Houston on defense to be able to hide him all the time. Howard, Asik, & Beverley (fukk him by the way :birdman:) are the only ones in Houston that really want to try on defense most of the time.

Portland has to many people who are capable of scoring for Houston to hide all their bad defenders, & not enough offense from their defenders to make up the difference if Howard/Harden aren't both scoring 25+. There is no one for Harden to be hid on other than Lopez.
 

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Portland has to many people who are capable of scoring for Houston to hide all their bad defenders, & not enough offense from their defenders to make up the difference if Howard/Harden aren't both scoring 25+. There is no one for Harden to be hid on other than Lopez.

Breh, in hind sight, anyone who was really paying attention could tell this was a REALLY BAD match up for Houston. Portland's just a more offensively diverse and efficient version of what Houston is on most nights with even less effort put into being a fraudulent defense. Even if Houston somehow got past Portland, I don't know how they go any further than that.

Aldridge, Lillard, and Matthews are about that life, and Batum > Parsons.
 

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Batum and Wes out there going at him like -




Just back and forth bars all over Harden



Houston you was never a don

nikkas knew you was ass checks since the Finals game 1

Saw the score on the daily news

shot the ball 40 times you could barely move

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