It’s seemed at times that James Harden has been taking one step back, one step forward but never quite getting over the line. And at no time over the team’s first 21 games — all of which he’s played! — has that disparity been more exposed than in the Nets last two games.
On Saturday vs. the Suns, he had a triple double but his game also included, as Michael Pina of Sports Illustrated writes Thursday, “seven ugly turnovers, six missed threes and only two trips to the charity stripe off a drawn foul.” He also shot 4-of-15 and after the game, his confidence seemed sapped.