NBA Playoffs 4/30:Prime's Rox at WarSlamEagle's Warriors

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James Harden is that dude at the gym who ruins the game with too many suspect calls.

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I can hear the Houston fans already: Comparing the Rockets-Warriors series to a YMCA game is like putting Beyoncé in a talent show. Harden is in a different universe from us mere mortals and is therefore subject to a different calculus. Which is true.

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Hoop World hates it when that dude, who’s already a tough cover, starts calling ticky-tack touches every time you come near him. Or when she misses a clean look on game point, then calls foul after the ball clanks off the rim. Sometimes it really is a foul. But if you call too many, then nobody wants to give you any, and it sucks the fun out of a joyful experience.

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The way Harden pleads for fouls on jump shots can feel like someone calling offensive fouls in a pickup game: technically allowed, he said, but weak sauce.
“Everybody pretty much understands that gray area,” he said. “I feel like James Harden is in the space where he abuses that, and people think he’s better than that. Like, you can’t be that good and get all these soft calls too. He’s the guy in the pickup game who doesn’t really get it — I’m calling my call even if it messes the game up.”

“People think he’s better than that

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