James Harden’s A PROBLEM and Taylor Jenkins is PISSED!

I know we do. When I know it might just might blow up in my face because it hasn't been enough of a sample size. It might fix itself, but let's be in all reality, it's not gonna fix itself. I am fired up about the most unseerious basketball player to call himself a superstar in my lifetime in the Association in twenty twenty three, mister loaf, mister fatsuit, mister

James Fucking Harden. Harden has now taken his circus to La where he is now fucking up the chemistry of another team, and three games in he's got an entire fan base stripping themselves of their own DNA, cannibalizing each

other like it's the fucking Hunger Games. The Clipper fan base in all four of them are at each other's throats, calling for Tyloo's job to be fired into the sun, Hardened to be benched, Russ to be benched, Kawhi to ask out for an entire dismantling of the organization in just one week, one week everything with simpatico Clippers fans, we're happy Harden gets there and is just chaos. Here is the top line. The Clippers are now zero in three with James Harden on the team. Harden is a

negative thirty nine plus minus over that span. That's what it took three losses, Harden as a minus thirty nine in three games for mass panic on the streets. There is blood, there is fire, it's an explosion out there at the arena. In all seriousness, it's not just that the Clippers are losing, it's how James Harden is playing. I think that is the problem. So there's this clip right that goes viral on Friday night. So James Harden half heartedly decides I'm gonna cut. I'm gonna cut to

the basket, and James Alert, Alert. When you cut to the basket, people are going to be looking to pass you the ball. It was like James Harden didn't even consider that I am going to cut to the basket for no other reason. Half heartedly too, for no other reason than just I don't know to clear out. So Paul George tries to pass James the ball and he's unaware that it's coming his direction and it just goes out of bounce. Some of the most unseerious basketball going on.

And to call James Harden disinterested would be doing a disservice to the word disinterested. What the fuck, James, what the literal fuck? You're supposed to be revived? There? You look like a corpse on the basketball court. The whole world is watching you, and you don't seem to mind. You think it's just fun and games. You're just an MVP. You can turn it on whenever you want. But guess what, it's bad. And I think it's gonna get worse. I

think it's gonna get much much worse. He was supposed to be the guy Harden that raised the ceiling for the Clippers, and what James Harden has done is lowered the floor. That is insane. You trade all your pieces, all your role players, all your depth for one massively overpaid guy at the end of his career on an expiring contract, and guess what, and guess what and guess what. It fucked up the chemistry and now you guys are taking heavy yells and I think Terrence Man hates him.

I'm pretty sure. I'm pretty sure Terrence Man the key piece in the trade that didn't end up getting traded. You saw it in the clip. James Harden's or makes his arrival, walks into the locker room, and Terrence Man in his slides, looks up from his phone for about two seconds, rolls his eyes, and goes back to his phone again. Here are some interesting stats, and I know it's a small data set, but I do not care. The Clippers before James Harden were fifth in offensive rating,

fourth and defensive rating third in net rating. After James Harden arrived, twenty fifth in offensive rating, twenty eighth in defensive rating, twenty seventh in net rating, that is very stark. In three games, that's actually impressive. Actually, to be able to destroy a team that fast is actually quite stunning. They were the best big three in all of basketball were Paul George Kawhi Leonard and Russell Westbrook before Harden got there, and now that he's in the mix, integrating

him into the offense has been mass chaos. So what's the problem, Like why? Well, TYLERU Tyler thinks that the problem is that James Harden's trying to assimilate too much. Hey, James, we don't need you to fit in. We need us to run everything through you. We need James to be James. I'm sorry, ty No, you don't, No, you don't. Harden says he needs ten games to figure out where he's at in terms of his in shapeness, in terms of his ability to get guys the ball, to get the

feel of the team. And I think that's true. Let's be real, James Harden didn't practice, he didn't go through training camp, he didn't do any live on ball stuff. He was basically chilling. So yeah, this is his training camp, and so it's probably gonna be ugly, but I am starting to fear that James Harden might be washed. I really am. And to say that James Harden and Russell Westbrook don't work together is an understatement. It didn't really work in Okay, see except for that James Harden came

off the bench and he was six man. It really didn't work in Houston. And I am certain it's not gonna work now. And Westbrook was absolutely cooking before Harden got there. He was running the offense. He was putting up points, getting steels, getting blocks, getting rebounds. He looked vintage Russ. Now looks like he was on the LA Lakers, absolutely lost, uncertain where to be, uncertain what his role is, Uncertain how much time he's gonna get. I tell you what,

help Russell Westbrook out? Can we get some delineated roles in this bitch or what? As for Harden, I think it's time for him to come off the bench, I really do. I don't think any teams should make him the focal point of their offense ever, again, unless they're trying to lose as many games as humanly possible. The Guangdong Dragons shouldn't make James Harden the focal point of their offense. So no NBA in the association should do so. Either.

He needs to adapt like we need Harden to receive ball, shoot ball. Receive ball, shoot ball, don't do anything else, James, do not put the ball in the four, do not heasy, do not pump fake, do not head fake. Definitely, do not step back, stand in the corner, catch and shoot. But he won't. But he won't. James Harden is who we thought Tobias Harris was passing up easy shots to take much much more difficult shots because they seem cooler.

They look very much more cool in the highlights when you make them catch and shoot, not so sexy tween tweeny tween step back three splash looks pretty cool. That's the kind of thing the bad culture likes. Folks like I said, I think Harden should come off the bench. Let him be that version of Harden. Then if you want James Harden to run the offense and run the offense through him, do it against the scrubs. That's all I gotta say. Let him throw lobbs at Zubac all day.

In the second quarter, midway through, when Paul George and Kahi are getting a breather, we are very close to finding out whether this mad scientist idea of throwing a bunch of all stars at a wall right before and arena opens up and they're all on expirings is gonna work. But my guess is no. If they don't work this time, I am betting that the wheels will fall off and then some drastic moves will happen for La where maybe we never think about him for the next decade. Cool

new arena, though heurd it's gonna be awesome. Let's move forward. Let's talk about the best SoundBite of the week, folks. Let me introduce you to Memphis Grizzlies head coach Taylor Jenkins. You might not know who Taylor Jenkins is because his coaching style is somewhat hands off, which might shock no one considering that he is the coach of John Morant and Jah Moran's been doing whatever he wants for the

last few years. But he's probably one of the most chill understated coaches in the entire league, probably least recognizable next to Mark Dagnall, who I still think may be actually a guy in witness protection. And the fact of the matter is, in all seriousness stories about de Mark dagnall, I get confused for stories about Taylor Jenkins and vice versa. My guy almost put a story in that was actually not about Taylor Jenkins, and I had to remove it

because it was factually incorrect. Jenkins is not a guy all that being said that ever seeks the limelight. He is widely considered to be one of the nicest guys in basketball, which is when he decided to go absolutely nuclear in a press conference after a loss, which many of them are losses nowadays with Memphis, I expected him to be like factual mellow, maybe a little angry, But this, folks, was a whole new version of Taylor Jenkins. Let's listen in.

That right there is three strike sho out. I do not recall Taylor Jenkins ever coming out after rest before and he's not wrong, Like, have you ever known Taylor Jenkins to make waves at all. No, I didn't even think that was I was listening to that on Twitter. I didn't even think it was Taylor Jenkins. Grizzlies fans can back up this statement as well. Reddit is full of posts complaining about reffing before Jenkins weren't on this rant.

I think this might be a long way coming. I honestly believe that this is a team that is down in the dumps, isn't playing good basketball, and the refs are like, you know what, fuck you, you know what, you get no calls, You're not getting any free throw attempts. You will be the worst team in the league. No suit for you. Memphis is one third of the way from having John Morant back and have won exactly one game. They could very easily be three and seventeen twenty games

the end of the season. They are facing a very uphill battle to get the six seed. Like and that is an understatement, probably and Jaron Jackson now not getting any foul calls. Memphis might have one of the most brutal schedule of anyone over the next six weeks. They play the Red Hot Rockets three times, the Suns twice, the Celtics, the Wolves, the Lakers, Thunder and the Clippers. Oh my god, this is a team that could be shutting up shop before John Morant even gets back into

the door. No wonder Taylor Jenisons is losing to Got that one.