How James Harden Makes The Clippers UNSTOPPABLE! 

Are the Clippers legit title contenders?

Harden just makes things easier for everyone

Harden's transformation from the preeminent scorer of a generation to the #1 floor general in the league is nothing short of remarkable. He's without a doubt the best pure point guard in the NBA at this time. He now dominates the game with his decision making along with his playmaking and if need be can always bust out the old James Harden when needed. Sometimes I think people forget just how great his career has been... Believe it or not during his time in Houston and he won more playoff games than any other player in the NBA. He carried the rockets to the western conference to finals twice and And obviously had a number of personal accomplishments throughout the regular season. And while he did receive an MVP award for a season, in reality. He should have won it a number of times. If You look at his stats and the success of his teams he was undoubtedly the best player in the NBA. Between the 2016 to 2020 season. That's right better than Durant and better than James. I know I'm not the only rockets fan that still is rooting for James Harden even after leaving the team. Let's let's start giving this man the love he deserves and inspire him to win. Come on y'all seriously! Your my hero James harden !!!

Bro if 4 LA natives win it this years and bring it to the new stadium to raise the banner would be epic.

my only concerns in this clippers team is the health of kawhi and paul george i hope they stay healthy come playoffs

I love seeing haters proven wrong. Glad to see Harden playing at his best.

Kawhi makes them unstoppable but harden a major key

Great job and examination of a basketball genius in James Harden. He gets alit of hate, but this guy is my favorite player for a reason. Yes he has faults but name a player who doesn't. He can get in his bag and give you 50 if you want, but he's showing you that his system works and his passing ability combined with his angles, handles, pick and roll timing and shot making is unguardable when hes in his zone. If this Clipper team stays healthy we may be looking at the new NBA champs

It's so crazy to watch James harden transition from the best and most unstoppable scorer to the best pure Pg playmaker in the league.

This year clippers champ

You explained it so well and they need to continue to play like this and stay healthy to win a chip

Harden rejuvenated, hope they stay healthy

Great, great video. This is exactly how I see the Clippers with James Hardin.

This is what Kobe was saying before on what Harden should do to win rings. If he did this when he was in 2018 Rockets, they would've defeated the Warriors and won the ring. But I think the main reason for their success is Kawhi going back to his Raptors style of offensive aggression.

Harden is ma neguh! I like his iso and 3's. Request mohawk harden

as far as I'm concerned, these guys are the title favorites at this point, barring injuries

Excellent review!

Before the deadline they need another shooter of the bench

He’s a system

I fear the Beard. James Harden definitely makes the Clippers contenders.

I was against the trade. I’m happy to admit I was wrong. James has solidified the Clippers offense.

Everyone hates on james except Hardens teammates former/current

Wow your 3 posters in the back are amazing. Best 3 players of the last generations

Hargoat doing goat things per usual

Harden's defense has really stood out, he one of the best defensive PGs the Clippers have ever had. He has his lapses but his defensive playmaking is there, really impressive, he fits in with their defensive scheme as well.

In his houston days he plays shooting guard the ball is always with his hands and he is the clippers and ty lue his making him a point guard are very effective he makes the game so easy for kawhi,geaorge,westbrook

The answer is simple. Because he is James Harden. 😊

great breakdown harden looling like magic johnson 6'9 point guard

It is a smart acquisition. When either PG or Kawhi misses a game, he is their insurance.

Harden is underated floor general.

My GOAT THÉ BEARD ❤️🎅🏿

Harden has an array of weapons now. Deepest talent pool yet. They are also bought in and not whiny about their roles or touches. That shows up on defensive effort

Kawhi is what makes thing unstoppable 😊

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Lets Go Clip Show !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Stay healthy harden, support the team clippers with idol kawhi and pg and the others for the win

To me is play making ability is making the clippers unstoppable and he still has the ability to go off whenever he wants to that's another thing that makes them unstoppable.

The only way to stop Harden is to hire Rivers and Nash as coach

This is James Harden when he was in OKC with Durant and Westbrook. The slasher

Ive been saying it for a while..they need a real point guard..now they got it

I have to admit that, so far, I've been wrong. I didn't think it was gonna work at all. I just hope this keeps up in the post season.

5:12 look at how Kawhi signaling Norm to cut (Thesis also looked at NP) . Nice game play

He got clowned on for calling himself one of the most unselfish players ever. But Beardman's been sacrificing his talents his whole career with very little pouting. In OKC, Scott Brooks played him as 6th man for 3 years in, despite being one of the most talented players on the team. In Houston, Tim Fertitta refused to go over the luxury tax and surround him with better players, despite being one game away from an NBA finals in 2018. (The next year he averaged 36ppg 7rpg 8apg) In Brooklyn, Kyrie Irving played less games then Harden, despite Harden being injured. In Philadelphia, he took a pay cut so the Doc Rivers could sign more depth, despite being owed $15million more. Generational talent that's been adapting and being unselfish since he entered the league when the 2019 rockets are down 0-2 and he averages 40/10/5 the next 2 games to tie it up, it doesn't count. when he puts up 35/8/5 and has more points/rebounds/assists/steals than steph in game 6, he sucked and steph was legendary to win without KD. in the bubble he put up 30 ppg on 67 TS% against an elite lakers defense that was just doubling him near halfcourt and leaving russ wide open. but he sucked. he also tends to have his best games end in near losses, which unless he has a time machine, i'm not sure what he can do about. putting up 39/10/9 on 62% shooting (field goal, not TS%) against the #1 defense 2015 warriors and being +12 in 41 minutes, only for the rockets to be -13 in his 7 minutes off so he loses by 1 gets forgotten. still a great game. he goes up 3-2 on the most talented team ever but cp3 gets injured so no credit for harden. he's had some disappointing playoff moments, but people way overplay it. I mean Harden does have 9 playoff games where he scored 40+ points, including 3 in the 2018 playoff run alone. Curry has 7 such games in his career. Butler has 6. Melo had 4. Harden certainly deserves plenty of criticism. But this idea that he’s never gone off in the playoffs is ridiculous. He generally had just kind of ok supporting casts and regularly made some decent playoff runs. His Rockets were also the only team to really give a healthy KD Warriors any real trouble. Cavs got swept and lost in 5. I think if you take "Most Valuable Player" literally, Harden should have won. Take Steph Curry off of that Warriors team, and that's still a good team. Take James Harden off of that Rockets team (keep in mind that Dwight was also missing for most of the season), and that team is very close to the very bottom of the West. Steph Curry had a phenomenal season, but I'm tired of team performance being taken into account so heavily in individual accolades. Harden 2014-15. With out Harden the Rockets probably dont make the playoffs. With out Curry the Warriors still make the playoffs, just not as the first seed. I feel like considering that Dwight was injured most of the season and Harden fucking went ham to keep his team a float, that the MVP should have gone to him. The only knock on Harden was his percentages, but Harden still averaged 27.4 points, 7 assists, 5.7 rebounds and 1.9 steals for the season. Dem be MVP numbuhs. James Harden is an underrated defender and I will argue that to the grave The only reason mainstream media views harden as a bad defensive player is because of lowlight tapes where harden doesn’t sprint across the court to guard a speedy fast break but when Lebron sags on defense it’s considered conserving energy. Efficiency wise if a player is a huge plus on offense it makes sense to have them expend the majority of their energy getting points instead of making high energy cost/low return defensive plays. Especially when that player is by far the most effective offensive player on the team. Lebrons famous 48 minute playoff games utilize this strategy and Harden is the highest usage player in league history so it’s less about defensive skill as opposed to a strategic decision. This is why Harden prefers to guard bigs in the post where his style is more about stealing low rather than jumping to block. And when looking at his defensive efficiency in the post it’s up there with the best in the league. Defense isn’t necessarily about the flashy blocks of a Giannis or the scrappy pestering of a Pat Beverly. It’s about not letting the other team score the ball and Harden does a good not great job at that. I rest my case. At their peaks, Harden IS a better offensive player than Jordan (and Kobe) by every imaginable metric. Harden is a better offensive player at his peak than Jordan. Some of this is going to sound repetitive but follow along. Kobe averaged 5 rebounds and 4 assists in his 35.1ppg season. He did that on 27 FGAs, and a 56% TS Jordan averaged 5 rebounds and 4.5 assists in his 37ppg season. He did that on 28 FGAs, and a 56% TS. Harden averaged 7 rebounds and 8 assists in his 36.1ppg season. He's doing that on 24 FGAs and a 61% TS. Yeah well Harden shoots too many free throws. Harden: 11 FTA (88%) Jordan: 11.9 FTA (85.7%) Kobe: 10.2 FTA (85%) Yeah well Harden shoots too many threes that's why his TS is high. Harden: 54.1 eFG%, 52.9% from 2, 36.8% from 3 Kobe: 49.1 eFG%, 48.2% from 2, 34.7% from 3 MJ: 48.4 eFG%, 49.1% from 2, 18.2% from 3 (only on 0.8 attempts though) Yeah well the game was much slower back then. Per 100 Possessions: Harden: 48.2 PPG (highest of all time) MJ: 46.4 PPG Kobe: 45.6 PPG Yeah well compared to their league, Jordan stood out more. Then let's compare to the league average. Harden: 54.1 eFG% and 61.7 TS%, League Average: 52.4 eFG% and 55.7 TS% Kobe: 49.1 eFG% and 55.9 TS%, League Average: 49 eFG% and 53.5 TS% MJ: 48.4 eFG% and 56.2 TS%, League Average: 48.8 eFG% and 53.8 TS% This isn't even factoring in seasons Harden has averaged 10+ assists, and he's done that many times. Harden is a very capable defender when he tries. For majority of the game Harden plays defense but allows blowbys to avoid risking picking up fouls. Due to his heavy minutes, especially when he was in Houston, harden lacked in defense to avoid getting fouls, which is why he is known as a bad defender. However, in late game situations, especially in the playoffs, he locks in and is one of the better perimeter defensive players in the league. As for his post defense, he has been number one in the league statistically since 2019, and has even been second in the league in perimeter isolation points allowed per possession in 2020. In addition to all of that, he is an extremely smart player defensively. He knows when to help, where other players need to stand and is known for his defensive communication. His Houston rockets had the number one defense in the playoffs and in the bubble of 2020. Statistically James has been top 5 in steals for many seasons, number one in deflections for a few years, and has the most blocks by any guard since joining Houston. He has crucial defensive saves in important games including against Giannis, Porzingis, in game 7 of okc thunder, and even against embiid in the 2020 rockets 76ers matchup, where embiid got in a little skirmish with him after harden stopped him on back to back possessions. He may not play it the whole game, but when he tries harden is a top defender in almost every aspect, and a beneficial one to have on the court due to his intelligence. And people talking bout his defense are idiots, hes locked up and then shit on Kawhi/PG/Beverly in a 1v3 lmaoooo he has the most points on every team too plus like 3 years of 10+ assists and the others are 8-9 assists on top of 30-36.6 points. He's the only one who even challenged the KD Era warriors and lost because of blatant ref fixing and Ariza going 0-12 on wide open threes generated by Harden along with his second best player CP3 going down and Capela getting sonned by a rookie Looney. Harden was literally dunking on draymond all day and dray got pissed and shoved him like 30 seconds into a game because he got scored on twice fast. That's not even mentioning all that happened while facing the KD warriors who had 5 star players, 2 of which were the number one and number two best shooters in the history of the league, Dpoy draymond, a top 2-3 scorer in Durant, Iggy dpoy. Then waiving off 12 of Hardens points but not making the same call if he missed the 3...blatant lmao Harden has been a top 3 hardest working player for the past 10 years. Just because he likes strip clubs and partying doesn't mean he disregards practice and conditioning. This sub is just going with assuming narratives instead of taking 5 minutes to find out that Harden's workouts have been Kobe-levels insane for many seasons, doing HIT lifting after having played 40 minutes in an NBA game with historic usage and scoring rate for entire seasons because the durability demanded from Harden forced him to be insanely well conditioned. There are countless stories as well as statements by his staff and teammates about it, it's just easier to shit on a player for partying instead. Literally everybody who's ever played with Harden attests to his one-of-a-kind work ethic. The reason Harden has been struggling are injuries and playing through them as well as the miles on his body but it's 10000% not because he's lazy. He ONCE forced Houstons hand for 3 weeks because they wouldn't trade him despite his demands many months before the situation escalated. Other than that he's been more than textbook when it comes to work ethic, you don't become such a legendary offensive Superstar without working your ass off every day for many years. And yes Harden can come back, he's one of the most skilled players ever and he works out like a madman

Dope analysis

PLEASE stay healthy all the way

This team is going for the finals.unlike lakers nobody fits in the lebron system. Look at westbrook hes happy now hahahal.

But i'm not surprised no question James Harden is one the best regular seson players the last 10 years know... Philly didnt need him & Maxey so it worked out for both teams especially if Philly can trade for somone with one the trade pieces they got back makes no sense to keep Covingtom, Morris & Batum IMO

The only thing that would stop the Clippers would be the familiar injury history of George and Kahwi and Hardin's disappearance come Play Offs time. However, if the trio are healthy for the Play Offs, watch out!

this dude deserve an allstar

Great breakdown! #Clipgangordontbang

Contenders. Just have to stay healthy

Before : How James Harden make the clippers worst Now : How James Harden make clippers Unstoppable 😂😂😂

Harden + Zubac pick & roll > Giannis + Dame pick & roll

Great job 👏

Harden probably could’ve been a quarterback

The reason Harden is playing well with the clippers is bcoz he is happy n respected by his teammates.

Playoffs: are you sure bout that

Keep in mind though that all this seems easier because you have the offensive gravity of Kawhi going on too. So the pick your poison is between defending Harden's system or Kawhi's dominance.

The Clippers early problems weren't James Harden's fault. The Clippers were not protecting the lane and keeping people out. I knew once they picked up a capable backup center, and had a few practices together, they would close that up and like I said when the trade happened, they're the team to beat if healthy.

Coz he is smart and smart people gets nervous when it matters unless mamba mentality

Starting to wonder why Harden didn’t play like this in Houston all this time with Dwight Howard. He’s making Zu look like an All Star. Guessing it’s just maturity, coaching, and the right teammates.

James Harden is the missing link of clippers, that's all what clippers team need a ligetimate point guard. And now clippers is the scarest team.

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That Chris Paul foul is just silly.

All media and RU-vid were insulting Harden 6 weeks ago

leonard don't look very familiar with harden (my opinion) they need some time but i think this team gonna go far

I guess we all knew this would happen The Clippers fully loaded superstars squad makes it look the scariest just like the Celtics roster Its too much power to deal with on a night out basis They just needed to find chemistry playing better and together as well they going to be a serious problem for every team in the league if they keep it real they legit title contenders no bulls***

How you make more shots when you contested than if you were to be wide open

100% the Clippers are title contenders

This team is absolutely broken, harden with Kawhi and pg13 is something that can’t be stopped. Except injuries 😭

Pls always updated me tnx

Definitely be in da finals

One of there losses was to the celtics by 37 shows how good the celtics can be.. Granted No Kwahi but No Porzingis for the celtics..

The clippers never had a real distributor for kawhi & pg. pat was defensive pg, Reggie and Lou were just scorers. Russ is best used as a energy guy, harden allows kawhi and pg just to focus on scoring and playin defense. There were times pg had to be point.

I think that Harden is enjoying basketball badly now. from Japan

They cheating bro I’m glad you said it

The Clippers are the best team in the league. I think they will win a championship this year.

He is the system right ?

They looking good, but it’s a long season, none of this matters until playoff time. If they play like this in the playoffs and everyone is healthy, the chip is theirs to lose.

Ofc they’re contenders. Ppl are too quick to judge and don’t know much about basketball tbh

I am a system

Isn’t Leonard on this team, too?

He want a ring and time is running out

System

better than the lakers. yes win a ring

This makes us all wonder if he has been right all this time. Maybe he just saw the enhanced mediocrity in some of those other teams

Reel talk bro

Clippers will win the championship IF healthy...

This team better than kd russ harden

Unstoppable 😂🤣😂🤣😂 Pandemic P & Kawhi will be on the bench in a few weeks with season ending injuries. Actually they’ve over due.

....but come play-off time??????

Harden stops in d playoffs 😅

harden chokes in the playoffs so no one is scared of them.

The Clippers never winning a Chip.

Haha James Harden will be the problem before long don't worry.

James is better than lebron

Firth

I gotta wonder how long will it take for teams to figure out how to defend this new-look Clippers! I also gotta question how long what kind of adversity causes Harden to become disgruntled and a distraction! The title window for keeping Harden focused and locked-in is getting smaller and smaller for each new team he plays for!

Yeah I don' think anyone is concerned. We saw what he was doing in Philadelphia where he lit it up during the season but when people turn it up another gear against him in the playoffs he disappears. This team does good or bad depending on if Kawhi stays healthy. Harden clearly has shown time and time again he can't be the guy, showed it last year when Embiid slumped in the playoffs, he showed up one single game vs the Celtics but other than that was not good.