James Harden has had nights where he only scored 22 points before, but he hasn’t had too many like this one. At the 7:34…
James Harden has had nights where he only scored 22 points before, but he hasn’t had too many like this one. At the 7:34 mark of the fourth quarter in the Houston Rockets’ 104-101 victory over the Utah Jazz on Saturday night, Harden had not made a single field goal, going 0-for-15.
Such slumps happen; they are a part of basketball. You don’t expect them to happen to a player who has been lights out all season while redefining the game. Yet there it was, through miss after inexplicable miss, until Harden finally broke his drought with a powerful dunk.
There are a few ways to look at Harden’s strange evening as the Rockets took a 3-0 lead of this first round series in Salt Lake City.
