James Harden is likely going to take a lot of criticism (already seeing it in the Twitter sludge pool) after the Houston Rockets dropped a tough Game 5 to the Golden State Warriors, because that’s the story of The Beard’s life. Granted, he did only score 5 fourth-quarter points, but he was being consistently trapped, doubled, and occasionally even tripled by the Dubs.
Harden decided to make the correct basketball call and defer to his teammates, and it theoretically should have worked. The Rockets shot 56 percent in the fourth quarter, their highest percentage by far of any quarter in the game.