Chris Paul is shooting approximately 60% in the playoffs. He’s shooting better than that in the fourth quarter.
James Harden is shooting about 40%. Harden looks like a shell of himself, and he never really says if he’s injured or not (he sure looks that way).
But if you were going to pick a career divergence, (about the time of the disastrous Chris Paul trade, where Daryl Morey PAID Sam Presti to take The Point God off our hands), so James Harden could be free of him, would it have been this? Would it have been a rampant Chris Paul, and bleak, ineffectual, James Harden?