James Harden's "touching porcelain" technique has long been pure, and there have even been defenders in the game with their hands on their backs, just using their bodies to block his forward route, such a defense will inevitably not achieve the desired effect.
For Harden, free throws have become an important way for him to score, of course, this is also due to the NBA's encouragement of offense in the past, in order to protect offensive players from being violated when shooting, and increased the scale of blowing penalties.
It was not until the beginning of the Olympic Games, the U.S. men's basketball team, which regarded itself as the basketball hegemon, was hammered by basketball teams from other countries, and the NBA executives decided to increase the confrontation in the game.
Defensive fouls will no longer be blown: the shooter leans toward the defender at an unusual angle, the attacking player suddenly deviates from the course to make contact with the defender, and the offensive player kicks or hooks the defender with an unusual angle. To put it bluntly, there are suspects of deliberate deception fouls, do not blow defender fouls, referees may also blow offensive player fouls.
Judging from the games in recent days, many players who like to make fouls in the past have dropped a lot in scoring, of which James Harden is second to none.
In the season with the most free throws from Harden, he can average 11.8 free throws per game and hit 10.2 times, which is a very high percentage of points; and this season, Harden's data dropped to 16.6 points, the shooting rate was only 35.9%, and the average free throw fell to 3 times per game, obviously there is a feeling of falling from heaven to hell.
In the case of Kelly Irving's return date is undecided, the Nets alone can not lead the team far by Durant alone, and hopes that Harden can develop a more efficient way of playing and play a performance that is in line with his own value as soon as possible.