The Harden Puzzle: How Houston Rockets Star James Harden Confounds NBA Defenses

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🗓️ 10 December 2019

⏱️ 21 minutes

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James Harden's basketball strengths are varied and, for a defense trying to guard him, frustrating. Now, teams are trying something different against the Houston Rockets' versatile star. ESPN senior writer Zach Lowe joins Mina Kimes to measure Harden's impact on the league this season and to discuss effective ways to stop him. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	The Ulyza, for the win! He got it!
0:05.0	Sacramento wins the game!
0:08.0	The Houston Rockets lost on a buzzer-beater to the Sacramento Kings last night,
0:16.0	and it was a tough outing, relatively at least, for James Hardin.
0:26.8	Today, Zach Lowe explains the wild new strategy teams are using against him and why it's so hard to stop the NBA's most potent offensive weapon.
0:33.2	I'm Inakimes. It's Tuesday, December 10th.
0:37.1	This is ESPN Daily, presented by Indeed.
0:46.0	Zach, how are you?
0:47.4	I'm good. How you doing?
0:48.6	I'm good. Like the rest of the NBA, I remain befuddled by James Hardin.
0:54.3	Befuddled.
0:55.5	Isn't that the right word for what he does to defenses?
0:57.8	Befuttle?
0:58.6	Some people are befuddled.
0:59.9	Some people are confused.
1:01.1	Some people are irritated.
1:02.6	Some people are in awe.
1:04.3	Zach Lowe is a senior writer for ESPN and the host of the Low Post podcast.
1:09.3	I think it's like a Roarchack test for how you feel about life
1:12.2	has just become like how you feel about James Hardin. Zach, I have brought you here because you are
1:19.0	the smartest basketball mind I know to answer the very simple question. How do you stop James Harden?
1:27.2	I don't think stop is a thing.
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