Skeets

How do you square it?

The Cavs deciding that the way to get over the hump is.

in the playoffs is James Harden.

That is a little odd, right?

Like, I mean, he's kind of our biggest playoff failure of the past 15 years.

He's definitely up there.

Yeah, he's definitely notorious.

The funniest thing about this, though, is that, you know, I kind of look back and I've been a James Harden defender at times because I do feel like people pile on.

You can't deny some of the playoff shortcomings.

I'm not trying to do that.

I just say, hey, let's give him credit for when he does play well.

But one of the interesting trends of his career is he's been paired a lot with guys who haven't been able to get it done in the biggest moments when he was their teammates.

Right.

So you go to Brooklyn and.

Kyrie gets injured.

Back in Houston, Chris Paul gets injured.

He goes to Philly.

Joel Embiid was honestly worse than Harden was in the playoff moments.

You go to the Clippers.

Kawhi had some no-shows and some injuries.