[Highlights] All the 102 field goals made by James Harden in the current 2026 NBA Playoffs.
18 games played.
He scored a total of 345 points in 672 minutes played, and went 102⁄249 FG (41.0%), 38⁄128 from 3 (29.9%), 103⁄124 FT (83.1%).
Not efficient. Especially vs the Knicks. But quite frankly he seemed like the best player on the Cavs the much of the time
His ability to isolate & slow the game down + make passes is insanely valuable in the playoffs
The trouble is that he is heliocentric, 36 years old, and the Cavs couldn’t reliably run the point without him so they played him more than they should’ve
plus the core 4 barley had play time together. which is very important. then you got cavs playing against 2 very physical 7 games series while knicks were chilling for seemingly months.
no suprised it looked like no one was trying. pretty sure they were gassed. which is usually the case with harden but this time it was more so age then super high usage which was more the cause early years
Crazy that he is leading the NBA in playoff minutes at his age.
In the regular season they didn’t depend on overusing him, but as soon as the playoffs hit and all the non-Harden lineups started shitting themselves they thought maxing out his minutes would help but it obviously burned him out.
 Especially after going from 7 games of Barnes being glued to him to 7 games of a mix of Cade and Ausar being glued to him. And his reward for that? Yeah gramps, enjoy 40 minutes of Mikal Bridges every game.
i never realized barnes was that good of a defensive player. or that good overall. that man was bullying both cavs bigs and doing great on the guards… his effort is top tier
Unironically it wasn’t all his fault this time. He shouldn’t have played nearly as many minutes as he did.
Too many minutes, and it took his legs out from under him. Couldn’t hit a three the whole ECF, no shot when you play him the most minutes in the playoffs.
He was our best player for most of the playoffs, yet people are still gonna shit on him, it is what it is.
I honestly just hope we make some moves to get better at the non-harden minutes, because while we were pretty good in his minutes, being like +1.4 per 100 possessions, when he went to the bench we were outscored by -14 per 100 possessions, giving him a on/off of +15.4 lol.
Not good to his standard and he won’t get it better with he is getting older.
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