Live broadcast, May 15-today, famous Colin Cowherd talked about Harden in his own podcasting program.
Cowherd said: “Over the past ten years, we have pretended to trust Harden in the playoffs…… Westbrook is not a playoff player, Harden is not a playoff player, a month ago I said he became a role player. What will happen to a role player? Just like Jordan Poole, one game is good, one game is not good, one game is good, two games are not good, that is the role player.”
Harden’s hit rate in only one of the four series matches basketable nets exceeded 50%, and the hit rate in only two of the seven series matches with Celtics exceeded 50%, while the hit rate in the other few matches was very bleak. In the 11 playoff games, he played 38.6 minutes on average, contributing 20.3 points 6.2 rebounds 8.3 assists 1.8 steals 0.4 caps, and the three hit rates are 39.3%, 37.8% and 87.3% respectively, among them, field goal percentage (39.3%) is the new low in the playoffs in the past 9 years.