The Rockets are just a regular season team. Regular season games are meaningless. The Rockets are frauds. James Harden and Chris Paul are frauds who always choke in the playoffs. James Harden chokes in the playoffs every year just like Chris Paul (OKC game 5 choke in 2014 is an all time choke by CP3 along with 2015 second round game 6 fourth quarter). Harden is a flopper who gets exposed in the playoffs when refs stop calling his BS. Harden's last 3 playoffs (2015, 2016, 2017) have ended by him breaking the playoffs single game turnover record with 13 turnovers, getting blown out by 33 points by a team missing their best player due to injury, getting blown out at home by 39 points by a team missing their best player due to injury in addition to missing their starting point guard. Harden was also extremely inefficient in the Blazers series in 2014. 2012: Harden choked in the Finals when he played for OKC. 2013: Harden choked in the first round against a team missing Westbrook. Harden shot 7/22 at home in the elimination game against an OKC team missing Westbrook. 2014: Harden choked in the first round losing the first two games at home to the Blazers. Harden had an extremely inefficient series. Harden had 1 made field goal for 2 points, 0 free throws made, and 0 assists in the last 18 minutes of 2014 game 6 in a close game. 2015: Harden choked again. Harden got benched in a elimination game in the previous round and needed Josh Smith/Corey Brewer/Dwight to save him. Then in the next round against the Warriors, the Rockets lost by 35 at home in game 3 and Harden was terrible. Harden broke the record for most turnovers in a playoff game ever in game 5, and the Rockets were eliminated. 2016: Harden choked and got blown out multiple times by a team missing Curry (reigning back to back league MVP at the time). 2017: Harden choked against a team missing Kawhi and Parker. Harden lost by 39 points at home in game 6 to a Spurs team missing Kawhi and Parker and got eliminated. Harden had 3 times as many turnovers than field goals made in game 6. Harden lost at home by 39 points to a team missing a consensus top 5 player and best 2 way player in the league. After the game, 5 Hall of Fame players said Harden quit. Since 2013, Harden has gotten to play against teams missing Curry, Kawhi, Westbrook, and Parker in the playoffs. Harden has lost 3 series since 2013 while having a sizable injury advantage. Simply put, James Harden is a perennial postseason choker. James Harden has never won anything. He is a fraud. Dantoni is an all time choker who choked every season when he coached the Suns, and choked last season when he let a No Kawhi Spurs team eliminate him at home by 39 points.
Okie Dokie....While the Rockets and Harden have undoubtedly a history of choking in the playoffs, I am going to give them the benefit of the doubt this year. They are number 1 in the west for a reason. They are serious contenders this year, as much is it pangs me to say so. While they rely an awful lot on Harden (can't really talk as we rely quite a bit on Lillard) they actually have some reliable role players. They may once again choke in the playoffs, but I am not going to count my chickens before they hatch.
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Same. I don't call him Choke Harden for nothing! Guy disappears in the biggest games -- he's been doing it since he was a Sun Devil (possibly High School too )
Yep. Gotta wake up pretty early in the morning to fool me, and I wake up really fucking early so you would need to wake up at night of the previous day to have a chance of getting one on me. Yep, I am a Fart Smucker. That I am.
Now this is how to troll. Congratulations my Kingspeedian friend**. Well, you forgot a few things, here is one: Unfortunately, the Rockets aren't going to have much of a chance to choke. With one of the best offenses in the history of the NBA, they'll be up 20 more often than they're down at all in the first 2 rounds of the playoffs. Oh well, them choking was a nice fantasy while it lasted. Nevertheless, here to hoping you're right! **Well, I guess @KingSpeed is more famous than Travis Outlaw, I just adjectivized his name. Of course, Travis's name is already an adjective, so there's that.
