00:00We will get to the Pistons-ish topic.
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00:11I want to bring up James Harden, because the only thing I can do is have fun with this,
00:16because this isn't our problem.
00:19Also, once again, it's proof the NBA regular season is toilet.
00:22James Harden doesn't look like this in the regular season.
00:25But in the playoffs, this is what you get.
00:27It's because the regular season is a bunch of boo-boo.
00:31So James Harden just completed his 30th playoff game with more turnovers than made field goals.
00:37And he also has a two-game streak against the Pistons of dribbling the ball off his dong for a
00:44turnover
00:45while falling over.
00:46It's really good stuff.
00:48But I wanted to ask this and turn it into kind of an all-sports question.
00:52So whether it's hockey, baseball, football, basketball, whatever you want,
00:56I would like to know who should be in the running for the James Harden Award.
01:04An absolute playoff gag artist.
01:08A player that is outstanding in the regular season, but in the biggest moments, becomes a complete no-show.
01:16Let me give you an example.
01:18Okay?
01:18An example would be Dan Marino.
01:22Every whiz-bang-pow record you could have played 17 years in the league, got to one Super Bowl, lost.
01:27Eight and ten playoff record for Dan Marino.
01:32More impactful playing himself an Ace Ventura pen detective.
01:38Eight and ten playoff joke artist.
01:41I'll give you another.
01:41Another, Chris Paul, has the record for most blown 2-0 series leads.
01:48Chris Paul.
01:49I really thought he was going to get the last one with Phoenix.
01:52I know.
01:52Choke artist.
01:53Like, who should be in the running?
01:55And Kenny, I got a couple of hockey ones.
01:57I just want to see if you can guess them.
01:58But who's in the running for the Harden Award?
02:01A player that you know is good, but then turns into Eric Lindros in the playoffs.
02:07Like, what happened here?
02:10Is it just one game or just all?
02:13I think across all your playoff life.
02:16Okay, because I was going to say, I think the most epic is still John Stark's game seven.
02:21Oh, boy.
02:22He went like two of 30.
02:24Two for 18.
02:25Oh, dear.
02:26And was it game seven that was prompted by Al Cowlings?
02:29No, that was game five.
02:31Game, okay, thank you.
02:32It was a long time ago.
02:32It was game five.
02:33I was 13.
02:34I'm trying.
02:35But you get my point.
02:37It's like, okay, that's one game.
02:39I don't want to put that now.
02:40I would say one of his teammates would qualify for the James Harden Memorial Award.
02:45Patrick Ewing.
02:47Yeah.
02:48How about the missed bunny roll against the Pacers?
02:50How about all the Knicks failures?
02:53He went for style points as the shot clock ended, and he bounced it off the back of the rim.
02:59It's like, Patrick, you're seven feet tall.
03:00Dunk the ball.
03:01Game over.
03:02Let me give you my all-timer.
03:04All-timer.
03:05It's why I hate this guy to this day.
03:06Hate.
03:07It's not dislike.
03:08It's hatred.
03:08Especially now he's turned into a certified Russell Wilson weirdo.
03:12A-Rod.
03:13A-Rod was arguably the most useless waste of skin to ever don the pinstripes in the playoffs,
03:22including his utterly laughable 2006, which culminated here in one of the worst three-pitch
03:29strikeouts you'll ever see against Joel Zamiya.
03:31Shout out, Guitar Hero.
03:33I just, dude, A-Rod playoffs, booty.
03:38So guys, who should be up for the Harden Award?
03:42Incredible regular season player, but when the chips are really down, mm-mm.
03:47Mm-mm.
03:49I got more.
03:50I'm just, I want to leave some meat on the bone for the people.
03:54I'll offer one hockey one so we can get Kenny engaged here.
03:58I want to wait until he's done screening a call.
04:01All right, you ready?
04:02I give you Carey Price.
04:068-15 all-time playoff record.
04:08You're the best goalie in the effing league forever, but you couldn't do bupkis in the playoffs.
04:12So the funny part about this is that it's basically based on expectations.
04:18Carey Price had high expectations going into basically every playoff series he was in,
04:23and then all of a sudden it started to unravel almost every single time.
04:26Right, it's 8-15.
04:27Yes.
04:28Look, that's different than Curtis Joseph.
04:29When Cujo was here, he had like a 1-4 goals against.
04:32He ran into, he lost every game 1-0 or 2-1 with the Wings.
04:36He wasn't a gag artist.
04:39This, Carey Price at 8-15.
04:42That's James Harden.
04:44It's not a bad call at all.
04:45Okay.
04:45I mean, Kenny, I put some time in to find choke artists that would rise to the level of James
04:51Harden.
04:52Because James Harden, remember, we're talking about more turnovers than made field goals.
04:58That's insane.
05:00And some of the funniest slow motion fall downs I've ever seen.
05:04Like, if I comped Kenny falling off his bar stool to Harden falling over Cade, it's probably the same thing.
05:12You know what another hockey one is?
05:14I just thought about it.
05:15Is Marion Hosa.
05:17He was at the Penguins, lost to the Wings, went to the Wings the year after, lost to the Penguins.
05:22Yep.
05:22Yep.
05:23I had one other one, but you would need to qualify it for me.
05:27Like, I think it fits.
05:29This guy who played for one team his whole career, he was the captain, and he was at times one
05:34of the 10-12 best guys in the sport, but just never had any playoff success.
05:38What about Daniel Alfredson?
05:41You're not wrong for having that take, and I'll tell you what, too.
05:44On top of that is one of the best players in the sport, Connor McDavid.
05:48If he doesn't win a cup in Edmonton or anywhere else.
05:51McDavid isn't the reason they lost those finals, and he did get there twice.
05:55See, and that's what I was going to ask is, what's the criteria?
05:57The criteria is you power your team to the playoffs, and then you pile drive them into Middle Earth by
06:03playing like absolute garbage.
06:04But you're also, if you're McDavid, you have these gigantic, magnanimous expectations put on you.
06:11You're the captain of the team.
06:12You can't elevate the rest of the team's play to win a cup.
06:15Okay.
06:16Are you the best in the world if that's the case?
06:18As a way-in-the-background topic, I think, Rico, you said this best.
06:23As long as the Cavs are committed to playing Harden, especially in the fourth quarter, they can't beat you.
06:28No.
06:28James Harden should not be out there.
06:30The Pistons are eating him alive.
06:32He can't be out there.
06:33All you have to do is play Schroeder.
06:35You play Schroeder, Tyson, Spider.
06:37Done.
06:38As long as Kenny Coma Atkinson is going to keep running this ball of garbage out there, dude, the Pistons
06:45should just tip their cap, and thanks a lot.
06:48Yeah.
06:49He's terrible.
06:51Mike, it's almost painful.
06:54You know what?
06:55Somebody just go ahead and bench him.
06:56See, I sadistically laugh at it.
06:58Maybe that makes me bad.
07:00Like, I was cackling.
07:02The dogs really looked at me like, our human is messed up here tonight.
07:05Because I was just like, ha-ha.
07:07Like, I mean, just watching this guy, it looked like if I handed Kenny a basketball and said, here, run
07:14point in the force for the Cavs, it would end like that.
07:18And that's not even an insult to Kenny.
07:20It's an insult to Harden that we can comp these two.
07:22They both have beards, and they have no coordination.
07:25Dude, I have a sweet J, man.
07:27It's unbelievable.
07:28He did play for Oakland.
07:30WXOU.
07:32Yeah, I'm watching this, and it's just like...
07:34You know he got banned from Radio Road, OU?
07:36I heard.
07:38But yeah, it is...
07:39Luan.
07:39It is just painful watching him out there.
07:43It's just like...
07:43Who rises to the occasion?
07:45Who is a James Harden Choke Artist Memorial Award candidate?
07:49Because there's one I'm waiting to say.
07:51I don't want to say it.
07:53I want to call her to say it.
07:54I want to be delighted.
07:56I got one, but I don't think people will really believe me.
08:00But you were at Wilt Chamberlain's 100-point game?
08:02No.
08:03Because Wilt was a Choke Artist.
08:04No.
08:05Look at him in the big moments.
08:06Half the big moments, they had to take him off the court because he couldn't make a free throw.
08:10Go look, you don't believe me.
08:11No.
08:11Stoney would vouch.
08:12He was at a bunch of Wilt's games.
08:13My guy actually has a statue of himself, and he played great in the regular season.
08:19Hall of Famer.
08:20Statue of himself.
08:22Regular season.
08:22What sport?
08:23Football.
08:25There's a statue of him outside the building.
08:28Go ahead.
08:28Just say it.
08:29I want to know what this is.
08:29Barry Sanders.
08:30He didn't make the playoffs enough.
08:32Six times.
08:33That's.
08:35Six times.
08:37And.
08:38Well, the Eagle game wasn't his fault.
08:39He didn't play defense.
08:4169 yards, 44 yards.
08:43One game, he had 169 yards, minus one yards, 40 yards, 65 yards.
08:49Kind of sounds like Jameer Gibbs' season.
08:53Oh, I'm sorry.
08:54Facts are mean.
08:56Yeah.
08:58My bad.
08:59Hey, 300 against the Giants.
09:01Doesn't have 300 total the next five weeks.
09:03Total of one rushing touchdown.
09:05Okay.
09:05I think you better be careful taking the Lord's name in vain like that.
09:08I like Barry.
09:10You just comp Barry to James Harden.
09:11Don't say you like him.
09:13I like Barry, but his playoffs?
09:16Not optimal.
09:17248-539-9797.
09:21There is one name, and I'm praying a caller has it.
09:26You know who I want to say.
09:28I'm just, I want to give the people the joy.
09:31Okay.
09:33Oh, there's, I'm shocked you haven't said it.
09:36Shocked.
09:36Oh.
09:37Leave it for the people.
09:38Okay.
09:38We'll get to the people next.
09:40I'll.
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