And also the calls on the fouls were too soft, one thing that trigger the player not to play hard defense.
Fouls are fouls. Soft fouls only matter when the games are last minute and if the score is crucial. Refs most likely don't call a foul in a soft foul if the game is about to end.
Yeah. Recently most points of James Harden came from FT shooting. For me his like not playing hard, he's just playing smart.
Smart players lead the game in control, he's good performing his task and with that, the team trust him every dying minutes of the game will be for him,
and most likely he will bring something to entertain the fans, Harden loves playing with mindset and he recognize right away, that's how he collect those
calls from the ref.
Soft call trigger when the actors knows how to fish for it, one of those quality that Harden have inside the court.