O Neal explains why Harden is always invisible at critical moments: He cares too much about what the outside world says when playing basketball

May 25th News This week, although James Harden was selected into the NBA All-A-Level 3 team, his previous defeat in another first-round tiebreak battle has once again aroused doubts about his strength from fans and even other NBA stars.

In the seventh game of the series with the Nuggets, Harden only scored 7 points and 13 assists, and the Clippers finally lost 101-120.

Earlier, in the latest episode of Big Podcast, Shark O'Neal talked about why he thought Harden was always "invisible" at the most critical moment of the playoffs.

"I can see it in your eyes when you really care," O'Neal said. "We have also experienced some tiebreak battles, and some people have failed to stand up. I knew they wouldn't, because it has become the focus of the topic."

O'Neal said that he would stand up at a critical moment, but Harden was not.

"If you really don't care, you'll shoot 30 times instead of just eight shots," O'Neal added. "When he was playing, I could tell he cares about what others said. You're a Hall of Fame level player, you can still make a lot of money no matter what, but you care too much about what others say. Everything you do now is just making your label of "falling off the chain at a critical moment."

Harden has a record of 3 wins and 4 losses in the tiebreak game so far in his career, but since he won the MVP in 2018, he has lost four games in the last five tiebreaks. He averaged 19.3 points in tiebreak, nearly 5 points lower than his regular season career 24.1 points.

Online O'Neal has played 4 tiebreak games in his career, with a record of 3 wins and 1 loss. The only time he lost in tiebreak was in the 2005 Eastern Conference Finals to the Detroit Pistons, even though he was the highest scorer in that game with 27 points (12 of 19 shots).

Although James Harden has performed poorly in the playoffs, he averaged 9.1 assists per game in the series against the Nuggets. During the regular season, his performance also remained stable. In 79 games, he averaged 22.8 points and 8.7 assists per game.