"James in particular, I thought he was trying to do the right things tonight," 76ers coach Doc Rivers said after the loss. This comes a year after Harden went scoreless and attempted just one field goal in the fourth quarter of an elimination game against the Miami Heat. Scoring isn't the only way that he can affect the game, but he also only had two total assists in the fourth quarters of Games 6 and 7. Harden took just six shots in the fourth quarters of Games 5-7, fewer than he took in the final frame of Game 1 alone. James Harden, who has the 25th-most points in NBA history, failed to score a single point in the fourth quarter of the three most crucial games of the series. Over the fourth quarters of the final three games of the conference semifinal series against the Celtics, Harden scored zero points in 32 minutes.
You might be able to give him a pass since the game was already pretty much out of reach at that point, but it continued an ugly streak of late-game disappearing acts for Harden. In eight minutes during the fourth quarter, Harden took just one shot and had one assist. Harden went 3 for 11 from the field on Sunday afternoon, including 1-for-5 3-point shooting, dishing out seven assists while committing five turnovers. Following a nine-point dud in the Philadelphia 76ers' 112-88 Game 7 elimination at the hands of the Celtics, that reputation is very much still intact. After a brilliant 45-point Game 1 against the Boston Celtics without Joel Embiid, it appeared that James Harden was ready to put his ignominious playoff reputation behind him.
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