Sixers

What the Fuck Is Wrong With James Harden?

By Kyle Pagan

Published: May 5th, 2023 · 11:13 PM EDT

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What did we just watch from a guy we’re supposed to just hand over the max to this summer? This pass two feet from the rim is up there with Ben Simmons levels of cowardice:

Doris Burke and Mark Jones can't believe how bad James Harden looks in Game 3. 🏀 pic.twitter.com/6zGKwf38m5

— Awful Announcing (@awfulannouncing) May 6, 2023

I was wearing custom ladies jeans and I wasn’t the biggest joke in Philadelphia tonight. How does a guy who had 45 points in Game 1 play scared? This guy was brought in to be Joel Embiid’s number two. He looked like he’d rather be anywhere else. If M. Night Shymalan wants to direct the next Longest Yard he can use Harden’s Game 3 as inspiration for the script. Look at Ball Crewe’s numbers since Game 1:

James Harden has made just five of 28 field goal tries (17.9%) since scoring 45 points in Philadelphia's Game 1 victory.

That's the worst field goal percentage over any two-game span in his career, regular season or playoffs, in which he's attempted at least 20 field goals. pic.twitter.com/imro199U6F

— ESPN Stats & Info (@ESPNStatsInfo) May 6, 2023

Can they win Game 4? Maybe. At the end of the day they’re still a loser franchise until they prove otherwise. It’s the same exact conversation we have every single year and it looks like they’ve fooled us again. Every loose ball the Celtics won. Every big rebound the Celtics got. It felt like we cut it to five 10 different times this game and they couldn’t get a stop. We were told this team was a bunch of dogs. That their mental toughness was off the charts. I believed it. You believed it. We all believed it. And we were wrong again. 

Just a complete waste of another generational talent:

What an amazing moment between Joel Embiid and his son🥹 pic.twitter.com/8AyKqP5kLo

— Crossing Broad (@CrossingBroad) May 5, 2023