Harden has looked pretty cooked and especially looked atrocious today. Now he could still be ramping up as he claims and getting back to where he was earlier. The truth is probably somewhere in the middle but for the sake of conversation let’s assume this is actually who Harden is now and he isn’t good enough anymore to improve his legacy.
By that basically no more all nba’s, no more all stars, definitely no MVPs and no deep playoff runs (e.g. nothing past the 2nd round but Harden isn’t really known for deep playoff runs anyways so we don’t have to hold our breath for that)
In this hypothetical Harden is cooked and everything that he’s accomplished is in the past, where is he in your all time rankings?
I’ve never seen him this disengaged before. His game tonight was an embarrassment.
It’s going to take a while before the bad taste of this phase of his career washes away.
That said, I’d argue that he’s being underrated right now because people have forgotten how dominant that Warriors dynasty was and how no one else in the league was even close to toppling it aside from James Harden