This was absolutely PATHETIC game. Harden played this game like he did the OT loss in San Antonio. He played hard and with heart all year, but these last five quarters were again pathetic. While Harden played bad, no one else really stepped up. Ariza tried, but just couldn't do it by himself. We need another leader on this team, that can take charge when this kinda of sh_t happens. Horrible way to end a very good year.
Masked behind the terrible performance by Harden, the rest of the team did jack crap. Every. Single. Player got their crap stuffed going into the paint, people were bricking wide open 3's, players couldn't even catch passes as they bumbled them or went past them out of bounds.
Defending 7-footers for 40 minutes was too much in game 5. Not sure why nobody else noticed, but they posted Gasol on Harden for like the first 5 possessions of this game. They wore him down, and we didn't have a good enough game plan to fight through that whatsoever.
