re: Is Jim Harden overrated?

Still better than Luka CP morant booker etc etc. even in a down season he is more efficient than perennial all stars.

All evens out for the most part /
Part of the game

calls go for and against every team every night. Refs ain’t perfect, neither are players.

Lebrons TEAM OFFENSE, the one he dominates the ball on, has not been a higher ranked offense than hardens team Offense since bronco was in Miami.

Oh it means everything. true shooting is a predictor of offensive Effiiciency and winning.

Recurring theme to his playoff losses have been. Harden best player on the court, opponent has next two best players, hardens running mate nowhere to be found.

Bball ref game score:

V lakers

Harden 23.4
lebron 22.9
Davis 21.9
Russ 12.3

Two series v GSW:

Harden 21.4
KD 21.3
Steph 17.1
Paul 14.2

As you can see his help didn’t provide much help. When cle beat the warriors Kyrie posted a 19 game score as help to lebron. If harden gets anything close to a 19 in any of those series his team wins, but his teammates shite the bed. Numbers back the eye test in all of these series.

Playoff bpm 13
Playoff PER 21
Playoff ws48 24

All Ahead of guys like Kobe, Wade and countless other hall of famers.

TS Is better metric to use than fg%. Fg% is archaic. Like using batting average in baseball. We have much better commonly Used and accepted metrics to more accurately rate impact.

Zach Lowe has already proved my point.

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Media is sometimes guilty of fixating on bad moments and forgetting the good ones. I did a deep dive, I watched all of Hardens fg attempts in the 4th quarter of his postseason. His numbers, in crunchtime, in big games, in elimination games, in 2-2 games, are bad. The criticism isn't unfair, it isn't cherrypicking"

"Most of his best playoff games are when his team is up 3-0, down 3-0, up 3-1, down 3-1. A lot of his crunchtime baskets are like, 'oh GS is up 8, they'll concede a layup so it isn't a 3' and Harden inflates his fg% from 0 to something better than zero with a conceded layup."

"His postseason is justifiably defined by meltdowns, 3 2/11 games! The criticism of his postseason performance is not cherry picking, it has been below his standard moreso than it has for almost any other superstar in recent NBA history"

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TS is a great stat, but FG% isn’t archaic by any means. Every stat has flaws, and the flaw with TS% is that players who shoot 10 free throws per game are going to have a high TS% regardless of their FG% and 3P%. The good thing about FG% and 3P% is that they both give raw snapshots of a player’s efficiency.