This attitude explains why his playoff performances never got better with experience.

This was like my work self assessment for my performance review the year I played minesweeper.

Yikes

I am a Reddit idiot with no professional media training, but how friggin hard is it to just say: “I could have played better obviously. Did some good things, did some not so good things. We all have to look in the mirror.”

Oh boy…The rest of his press conference was delusional as well talking about they were the better team. Is this an Atkinson thing or he just coping?

He was solid defending KAT and constantly putting him on an island against Brunson in game one was a coaching failure above all else, but man he fell asleep so many times off-ball in the series. Really killed their team defense

Well he can defend himself at least

Lmao. Ok James.

Believe in yourself like James Harden believes in James Harden.

No wonder he’s such a career loser. He has too much ego to objectively reflect on a poor performance.

if I was a Cavs fan I’d want to chase this guy off with a stick

I’m having what Kenny and James are having

The Beard truly is weird.

Strip club time

It’s answers like these, his demeanor, inability to publicly criticize himself, that just make me question if he truly loves the game. I’ll never forget when Kobe (RIP) said his playing style would never lead to championships. Kobe bean was right. And for all the Harden is greater than D Wade truthers, please, respectfully, take a seat. Debate over.

DELUSIONAL

Harden makes it really hard to defend him. Harden fans we taking Ls

He sounds a bit tone deaf here, and the majority of reddit users are obviously gonna just shit on him, but he did get brought in mid-season. This shit is not as easy as you’d like to believe. Also the Knicks are shit fucking hot right now. Harden will never beat the allegations though

Him and Mitchell were buns on defense and not remotely close to good enough on offense to make up for it. As soon as Knicks realized they could switch harden or Mitchell onto Brunson with no help it was over

NOW he’s a system player? Really?

Man.. Houston fans used to go to war defending this guy

Probably should have been more fluid than solid on defense then huh

He talks like a police department investigating itself. We all saw the tapes bro.

Oh brotherr

Man somewhere out there right now a dude in Turkey is just salivating at the money he’s going to get paid to fix Harden’s line up.

Hes upper 30s in the tail end of his career I don’t hold it against him

Harden’s answer is basically “Hakuna matata”

To those that actually watched the series and playoffs, outside of game one in the clutch and over time it’s prolly one of hardens best defensive runs, and impact metrics show the team is better when he’s on the floor. However his turnovers were pretty poor but from the only reliable playmaker on the team it’s not surprising. The biggest issue for me was his 3pt shot disappearing especially in the ECF and transition defense.

36 year olds shouldn’t play more than 30 minutes per game. There’s no way Harden can be effective being one of the main cogs on a playoff team. He can’t close out. He’s isn’t quick enough to switch and recover. And I’m pretty sure his stamina at the end of games isn’t going to be what it was when he was 27.

Cavs will have to re-think their roster a bit. Harden needs to be transitioned to the bench. Problem is the Cavs have too many role players to truly compete against the best of the best teams.

Lmao yeah okay there 

Fucking foul merchant should retire before he embarrasses himself any more.

Who would want this cat on their team anymore?

I remember KD said this mf was Delusional, he told no lies

Perennial loser and anyone who listens to him speak and doesn’t realize why is also probably the same.

For all his talent, he just doesn’t get it.

Is he aware that the games were televised?

is today opposite day?

Those turnovers were tough, man

Me when I lie

Aw man do i got news for you james

Follow up Q?: How do you sleep at night, James?

James: with my eyes closed, on my side and the TV on, why?

Interviews for his next team. (Don’t buy it)

All time great defender…of himself

Defensively solid!!!!!???? NUKKA WHAT!?

was kenny talking like that for the sake of Harden or did Harden really buy in to what kenny was saying and was brainwash in thinking he played good D

Bro is delusional

He’s going home with $40 million in the account, of course he thinks he did pretty good.

Just making it more obvious to why so many teams have moved on from him, he’ll be on a new team before the next trade deadline

Why is this the guy who gets all the flak when the other guys are on like year 4 on this team

Cavs are embarrassing in the media and on the court

Baffles me how he can command that type of salary just to disappear every playoff series. Its wild to me

Delusional.

How you gonna grow up to look like Kimbo Slice and still act like this 😂

KD was right about him being delusional

Delusional…. I hope he never ends up on my team

Get the fuck outta here James.

I once got down voted to oblivion for saying James Harden is not a good team player. And my inbox was flooded with hate and stats trying to prove me wrong.

Hes a liability on defense. On offense, if you are not a spot up shooter then you simply cant fit his style of play. And even then, he gives teammates grenades to deal with late in the clock and these things dont show in the stat sheet when hes averaging triple doubles. He says he creates shots and gets assists, true. But creating shots and creating offense are two separate things. He monopolizes the ball and his teammates dont really get a chance to show what they can do. Just stand in the corner and shoot. Sure hes made some guys some big money by simplifying their role for them, but god forbid he play with anyone else who wants to handle the ball at all. Its his only way to be useful on offense, and while hes still very good at it, the other parts of his game just arent worth the squeeze anymore.

People who said they’d take him over Wade, I genuinely dont understand if we are even watching the same sport. Wade sacrificed his body and his touches year after year in the pursuit of winning and excellence. This guy just shat the bed again in the playoffs and takes absolutely no accountability. There is no comparison, and I never want to hear that shit again.

I’ve seen guys give A performances give themselves harsher criticism

Absolute narcissism.

“Defensively being extremely solid” —the eye twitch belies the truth

Oh dearlord how may times can you blame the system. Same in Philly. When the system was centered around him in Houston he still lost.

these “reporters” are purposely trying to make him look bad lol

His playoff collapses are true art.

Just genuinely funny to shoot terribly and then be like “I don’t really consider shotmaking as apart of my performance”

Kenny and James are meant for each other

Defensively i beg your pardon

If I had half the self-delusion this man had I’d be able to get so much done.

Ah yes, the advanced analytical assessment.

I’m convinced this whole team shrooms after games.

He’s the problem, always has been, always will be

This is that 2K Myplayer answer that increases your social media presence, decreases team chemistry, and simultaneously causes the game to crash lol

I have never heard Harden taking criticism ever since he was a superstar. I guess that’s how he copes, but this has never been a good look.

So jumping to which team next?

I signed the contract, money went to my account, I show up for practice, I show up to play, I did all I was supposed to do. Contract didn’t say anything about winning

Lmao

Time to shave the beard James. The fumes are fucking with you

His defense was ‘extremely solid’… analytically.

-5000 self awareness

Welcome to The Big 3, James!

How many strip clubs are there in Cancun?

This better be ai

James Harden is a liar.

Ok he’s delusional

are his brain cells mostly dedicated to maintaining his beard?

The harden special .

He’s not wrong. His team needed to do a better job with switches yo help him and not allow him to get hunted the way he was on defense. That’s a coaching problem and also a Donovan Mitchell problem considering he’s not a great defender either. Harden was playing defense and doing well.

This is the first time since I think 2017 or 18 that Harden has gotten to a conference finals helping to lead a team. That’s a big accomplishment. They have 4 Allstars in their starting lineup, if anyone deserves blame it’s Kenny Atkinson.

Well the important thing is that he hasn’t learned anything and will take nothing from this experience.

He had matador D throughout the whole series

James Harden is WAY overpaid. No one wants him. He’s like Durant at this point. No where to go but down. Small market teams take notice. Lebron, AD, KD. James Harden….retire for real. This isn’t YMCA. The game of basketball is changing and the NBA needs to adapt.

But why were you guys saying hes better than d wade like a week ago?

Oh brother, it’s a nice little world there that you’ve constructed for youself, James.

I am new to basketball, he looks like a total nba meme material to me

Analytically he played fantastic

Alrighty then.

just let the man retire man

When he says his defense was “solid”, is this like a states of matter type thing? Like, he’s saying he wasn’t a liquid or a gas?

Because I’m pretty sure I could have put up better defense than that.

Compare this to the way Wemby is talking, the way Brunson is talking, the way Mark Daigneault is talking. Sheesh, that’s a bad look.

Hey guys harden stands for no fucks given come playoffs.

Jimbo Slice

Historically bad defender

Some guys just aren’t winners.

I self assessed myself and found no faults.

Defense? Lololol

Delulu

Great question in the first place

Remind me who said Harden was better than dwade again?

I’m sorry I have been watching him since OKC and he has never done a fucking thing lol

Delutional coach + Delutional player = Delutional win

Pretty sure he meant the team was already defensively solid when he got to the team

My biggest weakness is I care too much vibes lol