He is injured plain and simple you don't decline this quick halfway into the season clearly something is lingering but he has to much pride to sit down and heal so now we will probably be 1st round exit because our star and franchise player is being selfish somebody needs to give him a reality check.
Emotionally harden might have been hurt knowing odds against clipper was too tough. Somebody told harden he was gonna have to cut that beard man!
How is Harden as bad as you say he is AND not only leading NBA in scoring but team is less effective when he is not on the floor? And saying Draymond or Iggy are better/more efficient 3ball shooters than our best 3ball shooters is not just wrong, its ridiculous. McLemore is 39% 3ball shooter this season (House is 36%, Covington is 35%, Harden is 35%, Green is 35% (50% last 10 games)) while Draymond is shooting a whopping 27% - 31% career. Iggy is 34% from 3 in the few games he's played this season and career 33%. Please research before saying things like this, once mistakes like this are repeated over and over and over then it creates its own "truth".
He need to overcome his slump by 1. film session led by D Antonio (whole team), knitting more schemes against small ball teams w/ length 2. Trying step back 2s (warm-up) before launching step back 3s
When it mattered in the post season those guys seem to be way more consistent than any the Rockets...
Again, not acting like Harden has fallen off a cliff, but the stats above do not support that nothing is wrong and that fans cant be concerned. Why does it have to be an extreme with you? People have a right to be concerned, and if you think that everything is fine considering in 2020 he has been the most inconsistent from game to game that I've seen in years for this long a period of time, then maybe you will need to stop applying overall stats, and look more at individual gameplay, because (example) going 15 for 15 in a game and then going 0-15 in the next game means you're shooting 50%, but that doesn't mean that in the 2nd game you were making wise choices in your shot selection, especially after a certain point when it was obvious that something needed to change.
Then argue that they are clutch in big games (maybe Iggy, no way on Draymond) but there is no way that either if these players are better/more efficient 3ball shooters in regular season OR post season overall. The numbers just do not bear it out.
Man it’s one game. Big deal we got our azzez kicked by an excellent Clipper team that made it uncomfortable for us. Hopefully, we can figure some things out and make a strong push. But Harden will be fine. We’ve seen him have games like this every season.
Every superstar has had bad games, we just been spoiled by Harden because he has never been in a slump that lasted this long. Most players slump just as long and harder than this, 82 games is a very long season.
