Harden is sometimes so frustrating in late game situations

The one thing I'll never understand about Harden is not breaking loose to get an inbound pass. It happens often. Jostling him makes him motionless. Very weird because he usually just muscles guys off him or smacks their hands away in transition or on offense. He should just be the inbound passer in those situations.

 

This!!!! but he hit the same shot the other game and if he hit it today game over... We win some we lose some but i just wish we took good 2's in this situation... 5 point game any basket is a good basket

 

He looks like he regained all that weight back and some.

 

Man do people watch the game? Harden couldn't go by Sort or even get a shot attempts up on 90% of the possessions Dork defended him.

 

90%

so he score 38pts on the 10% of the time Dork didn't defend him? LOL

 

Harden in the first half was scoring amazingly inside the three point line. In the second half that kinda stopped mostly from what I recall it was because Dort was more often on Harden while in the first half, it was more by commitee who guarded Harden. So ya, Dort really did extremely well against Harden in the second half.

 

yeah so the 10% that dort him he scored 38.. how many minutes is that?

 

Yao got plenty of criticism when he played lol what are you talking about

 

Lol butchering a rookie's name isn't funny.

He is a good defender. Live and let live.

 

he's gassed

Dort is a gifted defender (but horrible shooter) and was on his ass all game.

We need Westbrook back, any other team without their 2nd star would be down in this series right now.

 

It was obvious he was gassed out by the 4th from my point of view, Dort did an amazing job, The supporting cast just needs to show up like first two games and no mental errors. We should be worried about Gordon - our second ballhandler without Westbrook.

 

They need to do a better job on setting the picks for Harden to get the switch. It should be brought up in the film session.

 

Would like to see him post up in the last few minutes and utilize his midrange for moments down the stretch.

 

This is what I saw, in the last min of the game with Houston up by 5, Harden just stood still why Chris Paul blew right by him and let them score to fast and to easy.

I still don’t understand when Eric Gordon was tackled there was no call. That was a foul. Unreal how Houston last min of the game couldn’t been any worst.

 

dort has good defensive technique and strong quick legs. but let's be completely honest here -- if he played this permahack defense against anyone else in the league he'd foul out by middle of the 2nd Q

 

Dribble dribble dribble.... pass out with 3 seconds for a contested 3.

Dribble dribble dribble.... run into a wall of defenders and hope for a call.

Dribble dribble dribble.... contested step back 3.

We get very predictable.

 

guess who leads the league in points off drives this post season

 

It sure helped last night.

 

he produced 24 points ofd drives last night.. the most for any player in game 3..

should he have scored on drives less or more?

 

Probably less considering his shooting (FG and FT). It has to be exhausting driving into and through waiting traffic and shooting so many 3s.