{"id":13473,"date":"2022-05-13T05:49:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-13T05:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/james-harden-has-disastrous-second-half-in-76ers-season-ending-loss\/"},"modified":"2022-05-13T05:49:00","modified_gmt":"2022-05-13T05:49:00","slug":"james-harden-has-disastrous-second-half-in-76ers-season-ending-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/james-harden-has-disastrous-second-half-in-76ers-season-ending-loss\/","title":{"rendered":"James Harden Has Disastrous Second Half In 76ers&#8217; Season-Ending Loss"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><!-- tml-version=\"2\" --><\/p>\n<p>When the final seconds ticked off the clock in the Wells Fargo Center in the 76ers&#8217; 99\u201390 loss to the Heat on Thursday evening, it brought with it a familiar sight for James Harden.<\/p>\n<p>Philadelphia&#8217;s season was on the line.  Needing a win to keep its championship hopes alive, Harden failed to show up as the 10-time All-Star that many thought he would be in the season&#8217;s biggest moment. <\/p>\n<p>The 32-year-old finished with 11 points in the game, attempting just two shots in the second half.  The last field goal that he converted came with 3:31 to play in the second quarter.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"m-in-content-ad-row l-inline mm-in-content-ad-row--in-content not-size-b not-size-c not-size-d\" data-ad-group=\"in_content-0\"\/>\n<p>After the game, when Harden was asked why he played such a small part of the offense in the second half, his answer was rather simple.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe ran our offense, and the ball didn&#8217;t get back to me,\u201d Harden said.<\/p>\n<section class=\"m-in-content-recommendation m-detail--in-content-recommendation m-detail--body-reset mm-component-stack--is-body-item\" style=\"--title_size_a_font_size:16;--title_size_b_font_size:16;--title_size_c_font_size:16;\">\n<p><span>Scroll to Continue<\/span><\/p>\n<\/section>\n<p>Harden&#8217;s struggles throughout this year&#8217;s playoffs have been under a big microscope once again.  Daryl Morey, the 76ers team president, spent months orchestrating a trade to send Ben Simmons to the Nets to acquire Harden and compete for an NBA title.<\/p>\n<p>However, other than his 30-point performance in Game 4, Harden didn&#8217;t deliver in the clutch.  Despite a subpar performance, 76ers head coach Doc Rivers said Harden&#8217;s season and performance was not the sole reason the team was eliminated in the second round.  \u201cWe win and lose as a team,\u201d Rivers said in the postgame news conference. <\/p>\n<aside class=\"m-in-content-ad-row l-inline mm-in-content-ad-row--in-content not-size-b not-size-c not-size-d\" data-ad-group=\"in_content-1\"\/>\n<p><strong>More NBA Coverage:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>For more Philadelphia 76ers coverage, go to <\/em><em>All 76ers.<\/em><em> <\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script type=\"text\/template\" id=\"facebookPixel1103097776498609\">!function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s){if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function()\n{n.callMethod? n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)}\n;if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;\nn.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\nt.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window,\ndocument,'script','https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n(function(){\n    fbq('init', '1103097776498609');\n    fbq('track', 'PageView');\n    var contentId = 'ci02a1076160012661';\n    if (contentId !== '') {\n        fbq('track', 'ViewContent', {content_ids: [contentId], content_type: 'product'});\n    }\n})();<\/script>    .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When the final seconds ticked off the clock in the Wells Fargo Center in the 76ers&#8217; 99\u201390 loss to the Heat on Thursday evening, it brought with it a familiar sight for James Harden. Philadelphia&#8217;s season was on the line. Needing a win to keep its championship hopes alive, Harden failed to show up as &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/james-harden-has-disastrous-second-half-in-76ers-season-ending-loss\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">James Harden Has Disastrous Second Half In 76ers&#8217; Season-Ending Loss<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13474,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[11],"tags":[547,389,548],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.si.com\/.image\/t_share\/MTg5NDQxNTQyNjYwODI2Mzc0\/james-harden.jpg?ssl=1","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.si.com\/.image\/t_share\/MTg5NDQxNTQyNjYwODI2Mzc0\/james-harden.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13473"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13473\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}