Recently, Lakers star James talked about the Rockets missing 27 three-pointers in a row against the Warriors in a podcast with Redick.
"Throwing 27 three-pointers in a row?27 and the Rockets keep shooting? It's not like all of their players are just three-point shooters, it's not that they have five Clegg Hodges on the court, two-time three-point champions, or five Steve Kerr, that's all they can do, they can only shoot threes. The Rockets have other players, Eric Gordon can get into the box, Harden can get into the box, but why?" James said.
After a lapse of 6 years, James once again talked about the sensitive topic of the Rocket's 27 shooting and 0 shooting that year, losing in the tiebreaker. This dark history will undoubtedly be the biggest shame of James Harden's career. Even this tie-break battle once became an important factor in the outbreak of infighting between Paul and Harden, after all, in this game, even if the Rockets lacked Paul in the first half, they still led by double digits into the second half, and held the home court advantage, after all, as a super leader, they are the core of the team with the ball, James so questioned Harden's choice back then, and it will also set off a storm of public opinion again, so that Harden will once again experience the Internet explosion of the year.
After all, as a super leader, this incident had a great impact on Harden, as the team's court brain, Harden's unwitty performance will become the team's loss of the game, and even in the case of an advantage, after experiencing this dark time, the culprit who put the team in trouble has also become the only hope for the Rockets to achieve redemption and break into the last chance to enter the finals stage.
But in the second half of the game, the performance of 27 three-point shots made the Rockets an important factor in losing. It also made James Harden only 24 minutes away from breaking into the Finals stage for the second time in his career, but in these crucial two quarters of the game, because the Rockets were obsessed with the attitude of the outside touch, the game completely lost suspense, and also gave the Golden State people the opportunity to counterattack, so that Durant, Yang Shaoxia, Klay, Curry completed the end of the outside line one after another, and the embarrassing 12 minutes also completely destroyed the Houstonians' dreams, and the angry Paul smashed the chair on the sidelines, which was enough to show his dissatisfaction with his teammates and the head coach.
In the 2017-18 season, when Paul joined the team, the Rockets once crushed Golden State in the regular season and became the first team in the West in the regular season.
In the division finals of that year, the Rockets also lived up to expectations, once played extremely anxious with the Golden State, without the slightest momentum of falling into the downwind, and the two sides were also roughly G5 The Battle of Tianwang Mountain, at the home of Houston, the Rockets relied on their tenacious willpower, as well as the deterrence of the light bulb combination, and even the peak state of the bench bandit Gordon, so that the team played a more extreme performance and won the key battle of Tianwang Mountain, but Paul's injury undoubtedly became the biggest failure of the battle of Tianwang Mountain, and also let the G6 Golden State people drag the game into the key factor of the tie-breaker。
G7 series, the Rockets sit on the home court, and occupy an absolute lead, after the opening of the second half, I don't know how D'Antoni arranged, the Rockets once lost their crosshairs, after the team continued to obsess over the outside offense, the German coach who advocated the concept of magic ball, was even more reluctant to pause, and continued to let the team continue to enjoy the crazy moments of frequent iron in such an embarrassing period, the way the Rockets continue to give big gifts, but also let Golden State see hope, after all, Golden State, which has a tsunami combination, will naturally not give up such an opportunity, the opponent's iron, but let the Golden State people crazy warm, after the return of the feel, the gap between the two teams suddenly widened, but also let Houston completely lost in this fog, even if it is as strong as Harden, there is no sense of backbone at all, so that the team into an extremely chaotic period, a quarter of the game, let the team lose competitiveness, such a game, and 27 shooting 0 in three-point shooting rate, can be called the moment of death.
This dark moment will undoubtedly be the last memory of Harden's career, but LeBron James has publicly revisited the past, which will undoubtedly rub salt on Harden's wounds, and also make the past reappear on the NBA stage, especially in the playoffs, such words, and James's identity, talking about this dark historical moment, will undoubtedly make the influence continue to increase, especially for the party James Harden, will have a great impact, this revisit of the past will allow Harden to return to the experience of the darkest period of his career, this experience, I believe it will be the memory and fact that Harden is most unwilling to accept in his career。 Why should James be embarrassed by James.
If you change to LeBron James, it is true that after the team misses the outside line one after another, it is likely to change the way of scoring, but the style of play between Harden and James is different, although Harden can also break through the restricted area, and even feed the big man, but due to the continuous inaccuracy, the player's El Hormone continues to soar, and the game once entered a state of lack of oxygen, Harden can only end the game in the most familiar way, in order to get rid of the embarrassment of missing the shot, but in such an atmosphere, even if he has the home court advantage and the situation is pitch black in front of him, it makes him have no way, and other players have no good way, it seems that there is only one way to go outside。
As the saying goes, since ancient Huashan, but the Houstonians are not facing such a situation, they can completely use other ways to make themselves kill, and even stand on the free throw line to ease their shooting state, however, the lack of commander Paul, the team completely lost direction, and also made the team continue to hope to stop the bleeding with three-point shots, so that 27 shots 0 hit, playing such an embarrassing record, also let the Rockets lose to the Golden State people again under the big situation, and also lost the closest opportunity to the finals stage, so it was handed over。
The resurfacing of this dark moment also made the defects of Harden's ability to play tough battles at critical moments once again be realized. After all, as the star of the team, the team is in a desperate situation, Harden should choose a more secure way, help the team score to stop the bleeding, no matter what, scoring is the team's only hope, but Harden is too obsessed with the outside shooting touch, so that the whole team fell into a strange circle, so that in the middle of the hand, let Golden State seize the opportunity, and in half a quarter, overtook the score, and ended the series, so that the embarrassing moment of Harden's career resurfaced.
The revisiting of this period of the past will have a certain impact on the exposure of Harden's ability to play tough battles and the mentality of fighting on the playoff stage. James took the initiative to talk about this sensitive topic in such a sensitive period, and it happened to be chosen at the node when the Clippers were on the playoff stage, such a story revisited seems to be extremely inadvertent, but in fact it is completely intentional, and such words are very likely to make Harden's demons resurface.
From rockets, Nets and then Philadelphia, Harden did not prove the stability of his ability to play tough games in the playoffs, although there were occasional highlight moments, but not enough to continue the performance, so that Harden has become an important factor so far this season, still empty-handed, Clippers period, Harden's performance, is also extremely fluctuating, good and bad performance, but also become an important factor in the team's record rollercoaster, if Harden can't break through the demons, want to win the championship with the core star, for Harden, it has still become an extremely difficult and extravagant thing.
Previously, when the sun was setting, the lake was dry, and Golden State had already said good night, in the era of Jandukuha, only Harden was left to support him, but Leonard's indefinite truce, as well as Harden's ability to play tough battles at critical moments, made the Clippers out of the game and became a great possibility. After all, the team's lack of a core leader, George's unpredictable performance, and Harden's tactical strategy targeted by the team all made it an extremely difficult time for the Clippers to break through the encirclement of Eastern European combinations, and it was only a matter of time before Harden lost another career loss.
In such a sensitive period, James suddenly talked about such a sensitive issue, and it may even affect Harden's mentality, and even make the era of Jandukuha fall, but after a closer look, James's super high basketball IQ and EQ will naturally not be so careless, James talks about such a topic again, it may just want to divert the attention of public opinion again, and even want to attract the topic in this way again after Janduku loses competitiveness, so that in the playoff stage without Janduku, new topics can still be ignited, and continue to grab new topics and traffic for the league。 Despite the impact on the pitch, Janduku has been completely crushed by the young star.
But the huge influence of Janduku, and in such a sensitive period, James once again talked about Harden's sad past, so that it seems that this matter is just tearing Harden's wounds, but in fact it will connect Jandukuha again, James as the person who opened the wounds, his remarks will undoubtedly cause great turmoil, and this past, Dukuha is in it, James revisited the past, it will also be to let Jandukuha in this way, connect again, let this era, continue to dominate the league's remarks and heated discussions in a very alternative way, and also let the era of Jandukuha end even on the court, is still continuing in public opinion, James's super high emotional intelligence once again showed the ability to manipulate public opinion, and once again showed the ability to be a super high trader.