Harden's Tianwang Mountain curse is as powerful as it was back then

After watching the Clippers and Nuggets, it's hard to understand a player like Harden, and how can you not like a player like Westbrook.

In the G3 of the series, Wei Shao completely lost his touch when Jokic was pinched, and pinching Jokic to force him to pass the ball to Wei Shao became a defensive strategy of the Clippers. Wei Shao shot 1-of-5 and injured his ankle.

G4 Wei Shao didn't play because of an ankle injury, and the Nuggets' bench completely lost their ability to score, scoring only 4 points in the whole game. The Nuggets were almost overturned by the Clippers in the final quarter, but Gordon's dunk stun saved the Nuggets' entire season. Wei Shao is absent, the Nuggets win, and his G3 play, presumably Wei Shao's fans will not have a good time in the past two days.

The battle of Tianwang Mountain, which decided the trend of the series, Wei Shao made a comeback. When he and Jokic came on the court together, the Clippers were still forcing Jokic to pass the ball to Westbrook. Wei Shao dropped two three-pointers in a row on the left and right sides, which looked like a nightmare reappearance of G3, but Wei Shao was not so easy to accept his fate.

After losing three points in a row, Wei Shao broke through to 2+1, and Wei Shao scored 5 points in a row by throwing a mid-range shot, which has surpassed the Nuggets' bench score in the last game. In the second quarter, Wei Shao hit two three-pointers in a row, and the Clippers did not completely empty Wei Shao at this time, but Wei Shao's hand was so magical.

Throughout the second quarter, Wei Shao scored 11 points on 4-of-7 shooting, 2-of-3 from three-point range, and 16 points in the first half. In the second half, Wei Shao came up and could shoot three points, and his excellent hand continued for the whole game, and finally got the first 20+ in the series, and the Nuggets also got the match point of the series.

Wei Shao released all the grievances accumulated in front of him today, and every three-point shot seemed to be in response to the question that he couldn't shoot. In fact, Wei Shao has shot 39.1% three-point shooting in the series so far, and his three-point shooting may not be so wise in the long run.

Of course, the Clippers may not have lost to Wei Shao today, Wei Shao responded to the Clippers' shorting, and Dunn also responded to the Nuggets' shorting of him, and the two of them are offset. But today's Murray of the Nuggets, the Clippers have no one to match.

Murray scored a series high of 43 points on 17-of-26 shooting and 8-of-14 three-pointers in the game, as well as 5 rebounds, 7 assists and 3 steals.

On this day last year, Murray scored another second kill in the G5 series with the Lakers, sending the Lakers out 4-1, which was the second time in the series that he hit a comeback in the last 5 seconds, the first person in history. A year later, Murray sent another Los Angeles team to the brink of extinction.

Murray scored 43 points today and only made one free throw, which came from Powell's foul on his fast break, one free throw and one throw. In February '21, Murray scored 50 points without making free throws in a game, the first in history.

With an almost inexplicable shooting touch, Murray certainly can't sustain it every game. But as long as he can break out in the series and Jokic can paddle like he did today, the Nuggets will be in a completely different situation.

The Clippers didn't play the desired effect today, with 8 of 15 shots, 1 of 4 three-pointers, 20 points, 9 rebounds and 11 assists, the data is very comprehensive, but it still lacks strong enough attack.

And Harden of Tianwang Mountain was once again nailed to the pillar of shame of Tianwang Mountain in his long career. Tianwang Mountain is a nightmare existence for Harden. In 21 years and the Bucks' Tianwang Mountain, Harden scored 0 points in the half and scored 5 points on 1-of-10 shooting;

In 22 years against the Heat's Tianwang Mountain, Harden made 5 of 13 shots, only got 14 points, 6 rebounds, 4 assists and 4 turnovers; Against the Mavericks last season, Harden made 12 shots in the game, hitting only 2 shots, including 1 of 7 three-pointers, only 7 points and 7 assists, and did not score a point in the second half.

In the last five series G5 games (four of which are Tianwang Mountain), Harden averaged only 11.6 points, 5.2 rebounds and 7.2 assists per game, with 3.8 turnovers, shooting 29.6% from the field and 20.7% from three-point range. What do you say about Harden's performance today? It's even in line with his average.

I didn't see any desire to attack Harden throughout the game, with 4 shots in the first quarter, no shots in the second, 0-of-3 in the third quarter, and 1-of-2 in the fourth. He finished with 11 points, 8 rebounds and 6 assists on 3-of-9 shooting. After he was jumped up by Jordan Jr. in the last quarter, he was firmly blocked, which was completely closed for his game.

In both games in a row, Harden has made more turnovers than he has shots, but that's not even his biggest problem. With only 9 shots, no desire to attack is Harden's biggest dilemma. In many rounds, after Harden handed over the ball, he automatically took two steps back and wandered away from the offense.

After all these years, you can't explain why Harden is so sluggish? He can kill all sides in the previous game, and then in the next game it will be like a different person under the beard. And the spell of the Battle of Tianwang Mountain on Harden is still continuing.

Losing the G5 is not the end for the Clippers, but they have no way out. They have pushed the Nuggets to the brink of extinction, but the Nuggets have finally relented, and now it's the Clippers' turn to be in a more difficult situation.

I'm certainly disappointed with Harden, who seems to have fallen back into self-doubt after his stellar regular season performance and crazy shooting in the playoffs G3.

Fortunately, Harden still has a chance to salvage his reputation all season, so wake up and it's not too late.