Quote (stuartg85 @ Aug 25 2020 01:52am)
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i'm starting to wonder if it's just tired legs or something
that 0-27 was in the 3rd and 4th?
either way, houston clearly get in their own heads, tucker had a WIDE OPEN 3 from the near side corner with like 2 minutes left in either a tie game or within a point either way and it wasn't even close....
eh, harden was rockin his shit early, started like 4/5 from the field 3/3 from deep
he just then goes into "i'll jack up anything" mode and yes, he won't drive which is beyond infuriating
had what, 5 FTs today? after averaging like 15 a game the last 5 years
every time he drove it looked so easy too, not sure why he's given up on it
Because of Dort.
James Harden has a True Shooting Percentage of 39.7% when matched up against Luguentz Dort. That's Harden's lowest mark against ANY player that he's been guarded by for at least 75 possessions over the last three seasons combined
He struggles to get past him then starts pouting and settling for long step back threes. It seemed like each three was being taken from further back as the game progressed. By the end of the 3rd he was barely hitting the front of the rim.
His conditioning looks terrible too, as usual. Everybody was saying he came into the bubble looking streamlined and in the best shape of his life. He looks gassed already.
I honestly don't know if Harden has that next step in his mental game, he gets so easily shaken and defeated.
The team needs to make adjustments, they just did the exact same thing they did in game 3 and lost the exact same way. Chris Paul kept them in the game with clutch middies, as the gap started to close and Houston's 15 point lead slipped, they became nervous, missing increasingly erratic threes from long range, early in the shot clock. GSW game 7 should have serves as learning moment.
Missing Westbrook, who will drive and open up the floor, is looking vital.
This post was edited by piatek on Aug 25 2020 04:58pm