Ultimate "James Harden Doesn't Play Defense" Video

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>NBA players with block rate + steal rate both &gt; 2.0%:
A. Davis
L. Sanders
N. Noel
T. Sefolosha
P. Millsap
K. Papanikolaou
J. Harden</p>&mdash; Kevin Pelton (@kpelton) <a href="https://twitter.com/kpelton/status/537648087070560257">November 26, 2014</a></blockquote>
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It leads people to switching off, not improving. You have to be really stupid to take irrational hatred seriously.

 

Harden made a good defensive play by fouling on that fast break, and he did it by running with the ball handler.

 

No problem

 

Harden defended well at the beginning of 2014-2015 season. This play from last night is so upsetting that he's reverting to his former self.

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He really seemed to enter a "fugue state" I haven't seen from him in a while.

It's like it's entirely a brain wiring issue. Very weird.

 

That's because he gave up on the game.
That's not bad defense, that's just bad leadership.

 

Then he gave up in the first half because he played **** defense starting the second quarter.

 

It was definitely strange, I expected the MVP announcement to spark something in James...But it seemed like it was a distraction. Hopefully we see a bounce back performance in Game 2

 

You would think after hearing that curry MVP one...

Don't know why he didn't play to tht level

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">James Harden: &quot;I've had a chip on my shoulder all year. That's how I approach every game. It's no different now.&quot; <a href="http://t.co/8C7wcqAS4v">pic.twitter.com/8C7wcqAS4v</a></p>&mdash; Arash Markazi (@ArashMarkazi) <a href="https://twitter.com/ArashMarkazi/status/595260355531538432">May 4, 2015</a></blockquote>
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I've honestly never seen an alleged star quit that early in a game that actually matters. I mean some crucify Tmac for giving up in a regular season game on a knee that needed surgery despite him holding off surgery in playoff games for the team, so seeing Harden quit when the games matters most and him being relatively healthy is truly ironic.

 

he seemed out of shape to me

 

6 day rest = lots of strippers and booze

 

thats fo sho, last night he air balled a jumper, his step back used to be deadly.

 

Wow... Even my grandma's defense is better than James Harden.

This is the nightmare for Houston Rockets....