Clippers Reddit Discusses Benching James Harden

“If we have any hope of going far in the playoffs (or even making the playoffs), harden must be benched moving forward. He’s negatively impacting Pg and kawhi’s performances, and is causing the offense to be very stagnant. Additionally, our rebounding ability has dwindled massively. That one possession in crunch time where the nets got like 4 offensive boards and ended with a mikal putback literally lost us the game. And don’t even get me started on how poor his defense is.

I was called crazy all off-season for saying that we’d be better without harden. We ended up getting him anyway, yall happy now?

The lineups moving forward should be:

Russ, pg, kawhi, pj/kobe, Zu (or another FA/trade center)

Bench

Harden, mann, norm, pj/kobe, zu/plumlee”

Is Giraffe Yogurt overreacting? Hard to say!

What we do know is that the Clippers are 0-2 since the Harden trade. They lost both on the road, to the Knicks and Nets, to fall to 3-4 on the year. Harden’s shooting numbers are fine, but the Clips as a whole haven’t topped 100 points in either game.

Maybe LA figures it out, or maybe not, but in the meantime, here’s all five Brooklyn fans jeering Harden:

They’re chanting ‘Daryl Morey’ at James Harden 😅 pic.twitter.com/2ODY2arUER

— NBACentral (@TheDunkCentral) November 9, 2023