A fitting analogy since Malone was damaged by the Bulls.

Doesn’t help himself by being one of the worst elimination game droppers we’ve seen from a star player.

I mean LeBron very likely has a 3 peat if not for those warrior teams lol

2018 western conference finals game 7, rockets vs warriors

cp3-less rockets went 7-44 on 3s and lost 92-101

rockets were up 3-2 before paul’s injury

regular season rockets averaged 15.³⁄₄₂.3 (36.2%)on 3s and during the playoffs 13.⁴⁄₃₉.8 (33.7%)

Pretty much every dynasty has an all time great who had to suffer from facing them all the time.

• Warriors - Harden (0-4)

• Spurs - Nash (1-8… holy shit 1-8)

• Bulls - Ewing (1-5 and the 1 was Jordan retired)

• Russell Celtics - Jerry West (0-6)

No guarantee they can beat LeBron in the Finals like the Warriors did.

You think Harden beats LeBron in the finals?

Rockets wouldn’t have built that strong if there was no GSW as the greatest team ever.

No way, he had it in the bag and choked big time can’t use this excuse

It’s tough because Harden goes from top-30ish to top-15 without the KD Warriors in the way. However, LeBron is the consensus GOAT if the KD Warriors didn’t exist.

I gotta imagine if they hit one of those 27 threes or if CP3 never gets injured or if KD never joins he has at least one ring.

Had a double digit lead in the second half in game 7 against that same gsw team with all those Stars

The Thunder could have easily won a championship. They just needed to stay together and continue to grow as a team.

Instead Harden wanted to be a star and KD folded like a blanket.

Only other team that fucked up as bad would be the Raptors with TMAC and Vince.

Warriors didn’t make him shit when he was with the Nets, Clippers or 76ers

I mean it’s not arguable? The best team of all time ruined his perception forever

Don’t you want Malone to maintain the record for most playoff games without a championship?

It’s not exactly a desirable record. Harden overtaking him would, if anything, be a relief to him.

Shimmy

Decided to watch all 27 shots. Kind of amazing how long they stayed in the lead while missing so much.

Hamstring injury 43 seconds into G1 vs Bucks. Just insane

I feel for him specifically for that year, would’ve been the freest ring on earth.

Not just that but his own 22 straight misses and how recently he’s been having multiple games with turnovers close to or higher than field goals

Turns out the basketball gods hated him and the Rockets’ horrid style of play.

It’s about 2 games too early to be saying the Cavs are “likely” not making it past this round. Them winning the series at this point would by no means be some sort of crazy upset.

Malone is a special player. I, too, don’t think it’s likely that Harden passes him.

This is such an insane claim to make early on in a competitive series

Morey spoke the truth on this fraud

Well after this season at the very minimum there’ll be 10 games needed which is pretty much 2 more postseasons. Considering he’s never missed them in his career and Cleveland should have no trouble with their roster making it there I’d say it’s almost certain

Says Doc Rivers

Harden 636 as of 8:00 left in game 2, Kobe 647, Shaq 649, Magic 696, LeBron with the Wilt-level 1,075 pre-tip.

Except for that Spurs-Thunder series in 2012.

Active players? not even top 10 I think. Daymond is second.

Think about how little sense this makes as GSW made 5 straight finals and then 1 more a few years later with the same core

I stopped watching the Sixers for years because I knew he was a bum they never made a team a winning team.

Homie. Watch the games. Just watch lol

He awful defensively, which I can kinda defend, but he’s so careless with the ball and does nothing off it.

Box stats overrate the fuck out of him.

I really hoped he would be better as a second option, but he’s been notably worse

This is clearly Harden’s burner because WTF kinda take is this

This dude is a turnover machine lol

Bro played with KD twice, WB twice, Kawhi, PG, Embiid, Kyrie, CP3, DH and now with DMitch. Sounds like a lot of help from a lot of number 1 or 2 in a title contender.

That being said, peaking during the warriors dynasty and playing Heatles before that isnt helping his case. Just unfortunate overall.

I dont think his teammates should be blamed like he played with Mo Williams or old Shaq lol

This has to be bait… good one at that.

Nope. Not in 2012 where they made a finals not when they were competing with the kd warriors huh?

A quarter of his 182 playoff games he had more turnovers than fgs. I’ll never understand how this guy gets so many excuses from fans.

He routinely shits down his legs in the playoffs.

This dude has so many all-time stinkers in important playoff games it’s kinda crazy. Getting really tired of people trying to rewrite history and “well actually” James Harden into being some kind of big-game player

This ine is a double edged sword though.  That’s a lot of playoff games.  He is averaging over 10 games in the post season oer year.  That is like averaging almost the conference finals for a career