Quote (piatek @ Aug 25 2020 06:47pm)
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.
yeah i mean late he was driving and wide open in the lane with galinari the only one back here, he would just chuck a cross court pass to a semi open house/covington who would brick the three lol
obviously missing your 1b is going to be painful, they desperately need westbrick in this series