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Anonymous
03/23/26, 20:32No.153979667
03/23/26, 20:32No.153979667>showed growth throughout his carreer (role guy to top scorer to floor general)
>has aged well, still balling at almost 37
>looks like an all time player in the regular season
>this guy clearly loves basketball and takes care of himself
>come playoff time
>he starts doing weird shit
>sometimes it looks like he doesn't care
>his disinterest spreads in his teams like a cancer
>do this guy even like playing ball?
This has to be one of the weirdest guys to ever play basketball. It's some Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde shit. If you only saw him in the regular season you'd think he's the best shooting guard of all time offensively but then in the playoffs he's off. Case to study
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Anon
03/23/26, 23:10No.153980601
03/23/26, 23:10No.153980601he's just MVP of beards
can't win chip with young Durant
won't win chip with old Durant
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Anon
03/24/26, 19:19No.153985425
03/24/26, 19:19No.153985425ballhogs who never ever tried to defend and always wanted the team to serve them instead serving the team themselves, tend to not win any shit (except when they manage to land a seat in the us national team, then they will be carried to some olympic medals)
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Anon
03/24/26, 20:05No.153985684
03/24/26, 20:05No.153985684He's a classic case of an underachiever. He has superstar talent but never outgrew his role player mentality. Very much like AI, T-Mac, and Penny who were all exceptional talent hampered by poor attitudes and work ethics
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03/24/26, 20:14No.153985725
03/24/26, 20:14No.153985725Harden is weird because other than game 7s where he chokes a dair bit hes not even much of a playoff dropper. Hes had many excellent performances and it feels like he truly loves basketball. But (as you said) its like at any random point hes like "man fuck this shit" and just stops trying, straight up quits, gets eliminated and goes back to partying and touring strip clubs.
All time talent, probably top 40 of all time, but in terms of mentality hes not top 1000.
He seems chill as fuck though so ill forgive him for 2017-2019
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Anon03/24/26, 21:16No.153986072
03/24/26, 21:16No.153986072I've always thought that for guys like Harden who play a cheesy, rule-exploiting type of basketball that's not technically against the rules but against the spirit of the game, there's a kind of inevitable reckoning point where they have to just stop trying to weasel their way to cheap points and just play straight for once. And they can't do it. If you've been playing with cheat codes active for the whole season having to do without them in the highest-pressure situations is unlikely to end well.He's a talented guy but without the clutch gene. Almost as likely to shart himself in a big game as to play well. So if he's the best guy on your team you have a ceiling.
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Anon
03/24/26, 21:50No.153986322
03/24/26, 21:50No.153986322some doos just cant into pressure when it matters
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03/24/26, 22:30No.153986528
03/24/26, 22:30No.153986528Towards the end of Internet forums existing, I was on one with about four people and one guy had James Harden as his profile picture. I've always been curious about him as a result, because he is not a household name among people who know nothing about basketball, and sometimes people talk about him like he's great and then he just vanishes and I don't hear about him again for like two years at a time. I don't follow basketball at all, so I don't understand how one player can be universally agreed to be quite good and yet simultaneously be utterly irrelevant. He's a bit like Allen Iversen in that respect.