During the second quarter of Sunday night’s Game 3 in Oakland featuring the Houston Rockets and Golden State Warriors, James Harden put up a less than stellar effort guarding Draymond Green.
Not surprisingly, Harden flopped.
Now, before we get into the way folks reacted to the flop itself, we will say that, upon review, it looked like Green did push Harden. But it wasn’t much of a push. That didn’t stop Harden from dropping like a felled tree.
Does this belong in the “Dropped Him” category? 🤣😂🏀🏀 pic.twitter.com/xkQ2YaPjOU
— BBALLBREAKDOWN (@bballbreakdown) May 21, 2018
Now, onto the reactions!
Draymond just turned Harden into roadkill#DubNation#NBAPlayoffs pic.twitter.com/ejzaALq4og
— Mr. Musk (No Relation) (@MythAddict) May 21, 2018
Normally I enjoy watching players who flop as much as Harden not get some calls but I’m not tryna watch the Warriors win either so I’m conflicted
— svm (@fpgsvm) May 21, 2018
Harden is a goofy for that flop
— Yusuke Urameshi 🇹🇹 (@brentisoccer13) May 21, 2018
https://twitter.com/thebreezewflo/status/998365897688428545
Flop God Harden
— MarshGOAT (@MarshGOAT4) May 21, 2018
Respect to these refs for not falling for that obvious Harden flop
— Killjoy 🤔 (@KilljoyGSW) May 21, 2018
I hope that Draymond cross over on harden ends up on house of highlights
— Gucci Belt Dell (@urkle91) May 21, 2018
https://twitter.com/Jessy47maverick/status/998365894551179265
That last point is not wrong. In case you missed the Chris Paul/Stephen Curry exchanges, you can see both of those here.
That play by Harden was also not the only bad one on the defensive end by the Rockets superstar.
Not sure what you can do with KD in this situation, but what Harden did ain’t it. pic.twitter.com/TjtdlQwR3R
— BBALLBREAKDOWN (@bballbreakdown) May 21, 2018
This series has, not surprisingly, offered plenty of entertaining moments.